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   John had a post out earlier today on the waning enthusiasm for the palace   
   guard and storm troopers of diversity, equity and inclusion crowd –   
   college administrations and woke corporations. Where colleges are gingerly   
   attempting to pullback the wholesale hiring that’s long been a sacred cow   
   of incorporating DEI into the campus experience, American corporations are   
   having their “come to Jesus” moments even sooner, as they answer to   
   stockholders and economic shifts.   
      
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   …And that’s what the WSJ editorial is opposing as well. It concludes, DEI   
   “has become a cudgel for political conformity and racial grievance.” But   
   DEI doesn’t just exist on campus, it has also become part of many large   
   corporations. However the corporate commitment, which ballooned during   
   2020, was already waning by the start of 2023. This Washington Post report   
   was published in April.   
      
   In other words, business runs on real money, not the public’s like a   
   university or state government does. So it has less latitude to indulge   
   things that either cost excess money with little return on investment, or   
   loses money profit-wise because their customer base looks elsewhere for   
   firms more in tune with their belief system (see Target, one each).   
      
   In tough economic times, who does a firm need more? Someone who counts how   
   many different skin hues are in the breakroom to keep a quota on track, or   
   a whatever color employee who can safely and proficiently run a forklift   
   all shift, loading and unloading trucks or moving boxes expediently?   
      
   WAVE BUH-BYE, DEI   
      
   Even at tech firms – where virtue signaling DEI programs exploded in the   
   wake of the St. George Floyd fiery but peaceful summer – we are finding   
   the hammer inequitably coming down on the diversest of the employee base.   
   The entire department was set up to be little more than a snitch and spy   
   base in order to promote some special persons, while keeping tabs on other   
   employees for offenses against protected and marginalized classes. None of   
   which makes the company itself any money towards the bottom line.   
      
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   Unsurprisingly, DEI is the first vanity project that gets Schlitz-canned   
   when something like #Bidenomics puts a crimp in the balance sheet for even   
   the wokest of the wokesters. For even Google.   
      
   Shortly after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis   
   police in 2020, Google was among many tech companies that set up new   
   programs aimed at supporting Black employees. The goal, CEO Sundar Pichai   
   wrote, was “to build sustainable equity for Google’s Black+ community, and   
   externally, to make our products and programs helpful in the moments that   
   matter most to Black users.”   
      
   Google’s vocal commitments included improving representation of   
   underrepresented groups in leadership by 30% by 2025; more than doubling   
   the number of Black workers at nonsenior levels by 2025; addressing   
   representation issues in hiring, retention and promotions; and   
   establishing better support for the mental and physical health for Black   
   employees.   
      
   …By mid-2023, DEI-related job postings had declined 44% from the same time   
   a year prior, according to data provided by job site Indeed. In November   
   2023, the last full month for which data was available, it dropped 23%   
   year over year.   
      
   …In line with this broader trend, both Google and Meta have cut staffers   
   and downsized programs that fell under DEI investment.   
      
   The year’s cuts have also impacted smaller, third-party organizations who   
   counted on big tech clients for work, despite the continued growth of   
   those tech giants.   
      
   …“When George Floyd began to become the topic of conversations, companies   
   and executives doubled down on their commitments and here we are only a   
   couple years later, and folks are looking for opportunities to cut those   
   teams,” said Devika Brij, CEO of Brij the Gap Consulting, which works with   
   tech companies’ DEI efforts. Brij said some of her clients had cut their   
   DEI budgets by as much as 90% by midyear.   
      
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   When you’re making money hand-over-fist one can afford the posturing. The   
   second the purse strings start to tighten, the rubber – and the dead   
   weight – hits the road.   
      
   One of the new age problems, as Google is finding out now that they no   
   longer possess unlimited resources, is that they have enabled a class of   
      
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