Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) sounds like a well meaning policy, even downright socially responsible. But, just as the bubonic plague initially presented with a sneeze, DEIA is insidious, infectious, and communicates through a host of bureaucratic fleas.
Federal DEIA policy emanates from the Biden White House. On his first day in office, Biden mandated the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce Policy via Executive Order 13985. Ostensibly, DEIA policy is designed to establish “an ambitious, whole-of-government initiative that will take a systematic approach to embedding DEIA in Federal hiring and employment practices.”
It certainly is ambitious, if you mean militantly aggressive. DEIA is the old Democrat policy of racial quotas rebranded to lull an unsuspecting populace into indifference, while radical LGBTQ interests are shuffled in through the back door. In Section 5 of the executive order, “Data Collection” is mandated, directing the head of each agency to “take a data-driven approach to advancing” DEIA policies.
That means quotas based on immutable characteristics like skin color. Why not reinstitute phrenology and physical anthropology as well?
Purportedly, DEIA policies exist to address the old systemic racism construct, but it’s a trojan horse, hiding radicalized shock troops of. identity politics warriors. Biden has mandated a policy of pure whimsy — the opaquely rolling politics of the LGBTQ constituency. It’s anyone’s guess as to the next identity permutation. Perhaps, soon, race itself will be the subject of........