This makes so much sense it is hard to argue with...

OK Gov. Stitt Orders DEI Reviews, Cuts at Public Universities in the States

So the Governor of Oklahoma has apparently had enough of the DEI nonsense in the University system. He has vowed to make sure that people going to these schools get an actual education that prepares them for the workforce, not an indoctrination that prepares them to be politically active. He laid out some pretty simple guidelines that appears to make so much sense I cannot imagine who would argue with them. But of course they will argue! That is a given.

At this point the Governor has ordered that no public funds can be used for any of the following in the University system:

• 1. Grant or support diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, departments, activities, procedures, or programs to the extent they grant preferential treatment based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;

• 2. mandate any person to participate in, listen to, or receive any education, training, activities, procedures, or programming to the extent such education, training, activity, or procedure grants preferences based on one person’s particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another’s;

• 3. mandate any person swear, certify, or agree to any loyalty oath that favors or prefers one particular race, color, sex, ethnicity, or national origin over another;

• 4. mandate any person to certify or declare agreement with, recognition of, or adherence to, any particular political, philosophical, religious, or other ideological viewpoint;

• 5. mandate any applicant for employment provide a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement or give any applicant for employment preferential consideration based on the provision of such a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement; or

• 6. mandate any person to disclose their pronouns.

Funny thing is that twenty years ago this sort of thing would have been supported by every liberal out there who demanded that people not be judged by race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, or political bend. Of course in 2023, these same people will be upset if you refuse to judge people by these same labels and characteristics? Now, judging people by the color of their skin is deemed superior to judging them by the content of their character.

Why? Well it is really simple folks.

After years of demanding that certain people were getting ahead do to race, color, sex etc... and that those falling behind were being discriminated against using the same criteria, it turns out that this was not such a simple reality. Once you stripped away everything but merit, it turns out that the people demanding everything was rigged due to discrimination are still upset that judging on merit didn't produce the results they wanted. We can argue whether these were the results they expected or just desired. But either way the reality did not live up to the rhetoric.

Turns out that what these liberals really wanted wasn't a fair chance for everyone to succeed, but rather they wanted a world where they could guarantee that everyone saw the same results regardless of anything else. Now, to the degree that there might be favortism or anything one might see as unfair, they strongly believe that those advantages should go to their "protected classes" of people and that other people (the evil white male for instance) should have things harder. The simple idea of hard work and perserverance and anything else we were tought growing up is akin to racism, facism, and several other isms that will surely arise during these discussions. People getting ahead due to hard work and merit is literal violence I suspect.

Yet even after years of DEI and other attempts to even things out, we still see huge educational gaps between races. We still see huge gaps in wages and employement between races. We still see huge gaps between marriage and divorce rates. We still see huge gaps between incarceration rates. It seemt the more we try to step in and artificially balance this whole thing out the worse it seems to get.

You cannot simply "give" a child a passing grade because of their skin color and expect that the "grade" makes up for the fact that they didn't learn. I could give a random person on the street an official medical doctorate of cardiology degree and then give that person a high paying job as a cardiologist at a medical clinic. But that doesn't mean the person can actually perform any of the duties of cardiology because they were given a degree and the job. But yet that is (in a nutshell) what many of these people expect will work if it is just implemented on a grand scale. It's almost as if they truly do not believe that hard work, dedication, learning, and fundamental merit is a real thing. Almost as if they see it as racism in disguise.

Obviously these things will be challenged by others in court in desperate attempts to have the courts step in and save them from common sense. We are already we are seeing these battles being laid out across the country. But these people have been losing the public opinion argument here and I think this whole DEI ideal is becoming more and more isolated to places like universities, government, and a quickly diminishing amount of woke corporations.