Dr. Carol M. Swain, author of The Adversity of Diversity, said the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) standards being pushed today are not the same type of diversity Americans rallied around during the Civil Rights Movement.
Swain said her book points out “everything wrong” with today’s DEI standards and how they violate the U.S. Constitution and Equal Protections Protection Clause.
“The book basically points out everything that’s wrong with DEI and how it violates our Constitution and Equal Protections Protection Clause. It was published after the Supreme Court decision striking down race-based affirmative action. The book shows how [DEI] hurt people in the corporate world as well as the academic world and K-12 education,” Swain said during Thursday’s episode of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“The whole point of the book is that you can have diversity without discrimination and that Inclusion is not the same as integration. Equity is not the same as equal opportunity. The diversity that’s being pushed today through DEI is not the same diversity that we see around us that the diversity that came out of the civil rights movement that most of us thought was a great idea: diversity that was not artificially contrived and did not divide groups,” Swain added.
Swain used the example of Harvard University as an institution that has become the “butt of every joke” since implementing DEI standards.
It should be noted that Swain is in the middle of a legal battle with Harvard after it was revealed that the university’s ex-president, Claudine Gay, allegedly plagiarized “multiple sections” of Swain’s Ph.D. thesis from 1997.
“Harvard has become the butt of every joke, and there are a lot of alumni that are just embarrassed to say that they have degrees from Harvard,” Swain said.
Swain also cited Boeing as a company that has pushed DEI standards while the quality of its products has declined.
“Boeing matters because most of us that travel we fly and with doors flying off airplanes, emergency doors, it makes you wonder about whether you really want to sit at the emergency door exit…There have been reports that the emphasis for the managers were all about getting up their diversity numbers and that they lost focus on the point that their mission was to create aircraft, safe aircraft,” Swain said.
“Many companies have been diverted away from their mission…We’ve lost our way,” Swain added.
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