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[No! Really?...] DEI Has Made America Meaner

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/01/dei-made-america-meaner/

Diversity, equity, and inclusion has made society meaner—mean enough to 
accept Hitlerian terms when describing out-groups and seeking to exact 
revenge on perceived oppressors. 

This was all common sense to many of us years ago, but it’s nice that we 
now have a study that substantiates our perception.

The report, released Nov. 25 by the always-good Network Contagion Research 
Institute and titled “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the 
Hostile Attribution Bias,” describes how groups that were exposed to 
writings by DEI retailers Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo reacted 
compared to control groups that were instead given anodyne texts on 
technical material.

Every time, members of the groups under the spell of Kendi and DiAngelo or 
similar writers looked for discrimination under every bed, found offense 
in “microaggressions” that did not exist, and, more worryingly, sought to 
penalize those they wrongly identified as having committed these 
transgressions.

Lest we forget, this comes from an approach that promised “better 
discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone,” according to Google 
CEO Sundar Pichai. DEI is “the key to growth,” according to activist Jesse 
Jackson, and something that “creates safer and fairer workplaces,” 
according to Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.

However, as the Network Contagion Research Institute’s report confirms, 
none of these things are true.

Interestingly, the Network Contagion Research Institute study focused “on 
diversity training interventions that emphasize awareness of and 
opposition to ‘systemic oppression,’ a trend fueled by the 2020 Black 
Lives Matter movement and popularized by texts such as Ibram X. Kendi’s, 
‘How to Be an Antiracist,’” the report says.

This was important because the claim of “systemic racism” forms the basis 
of the attempt to have a revolutionary systemic overhaul of society that 
is at the heart of much of DEI. While the assertion of “systemic racism” 
goes back to the origin of critical race theory, the discipline’s 
foundational book speaks of the “exercise of racial power” as being 
“systemic and ingrained.” It was not until the arrival of BLM, and 
especially its 2020 riots, that America’s cultural gatekeepers began to 
accept the claim as fact.

“While not representative of all DEI pedagogy, ‘anti-racism’ and ‘anti-
oppression’ pedagogy and intervention materials have seen widespread 
adoption across sectors like higher education and healthcare,” says the 
report.

The Network Contagion Research Institute study surveyed reactions to three 
characteristics: race, religion, and caste. For race, it used writings 
from Kendi, DiAngelo, and others of their ilk. For religion, it subjected 
those under study to “content from the Institute for Social Policy and 
Understanding, commonly used in sensitivity training on Islamophobia.” For 
caste, it featured writings from Equality Labs, a North American group 
that provides training on caste discrimination among people with origins 
in South Asia.

“Rhetoric from these materials was excerpted and administered in 
psychological surveys measuring explicit bias, social distancing, 
demonization, and authoritarian tendencies. Participants were randomly 
assigned to review these materials or neutral control material,” said the 
report’s writers of the methodology they used.

Here’s how it worked in the racial group scenario: While one group was 
given passages by Kendi and DiAngelo, the texts given to the control group 
had to do with corn production. After reading the texts, both groups were 
asked to evaluate this racially neutral scenario: A student applied to an 
elite East Coast university in Fall 2024. During the application process, 
he was interviewed by an admissions officer. Ultimately, the student’s 
application was rejected.

The participants in the experiments were given questions designed to see 
how much they perceived racial bias, but the questions themselves were 
neutral and avoided “any mention of either the student’s or admission 
officer’s race or ethnicity and provides no evidence of racism. Thus, if 
they perceive racism in the interaction, they are introducing something 
that is objectively absent.”

Surprise, surprise, those subjects of the experiment that read Kendi and 
DiAngelo “developed a hostile attribution bias.”

“They perceived the admissions officer as significantly more prejudiced 
than did those who read the neutral corn essay. Specifically, participants 
exposed to the anti-racist rhetoric perceived more discrimination from the 
admissions officer (~21%), despite the complete absence of evidence of 
discrimination. They believed the admissions officer was more unfair to 
the applicant (~12%), had caused more harm to the applicant (~26%), and 
had committed more microaggressions (~35%),” says the report.

The Kendi/DiAngelo readers also turned more punitive: “Compared to 
controls who read about corn, respondents who read the Kendi/DiAngelo 
intervention were 12% more willing to support suspending the admissions 
officer for a semester, 16% more willing to demand a public apology to the 
applicant, and 12% more willing to require additional DEI training to 
correct the officer.”

The same results were obtained in the religious group, where those who 
read the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding material looked for 
Islamophobia everywhere, and in the group that was tested on caste-based 
discrimination among Hindu Americans by reading material from Equality 
Labs. In that case, the control groups read dry academic texts from 
professors at Cambridge, Berkeley, etc.

The Equality Labs material was thick with the language of activism: 
“Shudras and Dalits are caste-oppressed; they experience profound 
injustices, including socioeconomic hardship and brutal violence at the 
hands of the upper castes. Dalits live in segregated ghettos, are banned 
from temples, and are denied access to schools and public amenities. The 
2,500-year-old caste system is enforced by violence and maintained by one 
of the world’s oldest, most persistent cultures.”

The passage they were asked to analyze was completely bereft of any 
mention of oppression. However: “Raj Kumar applied to an elite East Coast 
university in Fall 2022. During the application process, he was 
interviewed by an admissions officer, Anand Prakash. Ultimately, Raj’s 
application was rejected.”

Those who read the Equality Labs material again had a much higher 
perception of microaggression, harm, and bias. Not only that, the caste-
study group read a passage from Hitler where the word “Jew” was 
substituted with “Brahmin” (the upper caste in Hinduism).

“Participants exposed to the DEI content were markedly more likely to 
endorse Hitler’s demonization statements, agreeing that Brahmins are 
‘parasites’ (+35.4%), ‘viruses’ (+33.8%), and ‘the devil personified’ 
(+27.1%),” says the report, adding that, “These findings suggest that 
exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the 
type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism.”

Sadly, this is precisely what we have seen happen in America in the past 
decade—a process that has accelerated in the past four years. Our society 
has turned meaner and more willing to inflict pain and punishment on those 
perceived to be oppressors.

Something else has happened: media complicity. National Review reported 
that the Network Contagion Research Institute study “was set to be covered 
by Bloomberg and the New York Times, although both publications axed their 
articles just before publication, according to communications reviewed by 
National Review.”

“Unfortunately, both publications jumped on the story enthusiastically 
only for it to be inexplicably pulled at the highest editorial levels,” a 
Network Contagion Research Institute researcher told the outlet. “This has 
never happened to the NCRI in its 5-year history.”

This is the state of affairs that the American voter has asked President-
elect Donald Trump to fix. Here’s hoping he can.

Originally published by The Washington Examiner.


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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look 
forward to America being great again.

The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and 
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fiasco, President Trump.  

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