The limits of DEI #2: responses to critics

Last week, we explored how diversity, equity, and inclusion programs often obscure the abuse of power by granting people moral licenses based on their identities.

A critique from the right

Ancient Problemz

took issue with my partial defense of the goals of DEI from the right. I did appreciate being addressed in the same breath as Richard Reeves.

Much of it is the author dunking on the version of me from a decade ago. I’ll ignore that because my skin is thicker now, but I want to underscore that insulting people when they admit they were once wrong is in poor taste. The entire premise of my original post is how I understood the problems with DEI through my contradictory experiences. Here’s the substance:

My critique is not that Radha has no good points to make, it’s that she:

1. Wants to make DEI do what it says it does (an impossibility) instead of realizing that it would be easier to change the name of it to Anti-White People and Straight Men Department than to make it precipitate any form of justice.

2. Thinks…