Conservatives Take Scalps In Culture Wars

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Conservatives Take Scalps In The Culture War​

ANALYSIS

GAGE KLIPPERCONTRIBUTOR
July 31, 20238:33 PM ET


The cottage industry built around Diversity, Equity, Inclusive (DEI) seems to have crashed almost as quickly as it went up, The Wall Street Journal reported. While left-wing grifters made a good run of their dominance over America’s C-suite, their influence was never going to last. Their premises are too faulty and un-American; their prescriptions too radical and alienating — if something can’t go on forever, it won’t.

Conservatives are rightly cheering the development, with some even going so far as to take credit for delegitimizing the corporate training programs that indict America as a racist empire and divide workers into victim and oppressor. Yet it’s unclear if this is the major victory conservatives wish it to be. Is this a sign that wokeness in the workplace — and American culture more broadly — has finally crested?

In the piece aptly titled, “The Rise and Fall of The Chief Diversity Officer” (CDO), the WSJ shows how in the wake of the George Floyd riots of 2020, companies quickly embraced an expansive DEI department. In 2018, less than half of all S&P 500 companies had a CDO, but by 2022 roughly 75 percent had created the position. Now, major companies like Netflix, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery are axing their DEI executives. Between turmoil in the tech sector and anticipation of legal challenges, “[t]housands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year” as companies re-evaluate their priorities.

The WSJ points to two main reasons for the decline.

On the one hand, companies are less interested in hiring for the position. One executive recruitment expert told the WSJ that, “Demand [for CDOs] is the lowest he has seen in his 30 years of recruiting.” For companies who are hiring, they want CDOs who can help mitigate the anticipated “spillover legal action” from the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action decision rather than just champion feel-good policies.

More bad news for the left here: https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/31/conservatives-take-scalps-culture-war-diversity-equity-inclusion/

It's a bad day for 1174, Brightshineygirl, Fuzzy and his wife Phil. So sad.

 

[ll74]

Weird take. Even with this piece, I'm having a great day. Might be because the culture war fighters of the right continue to make me laugh my ass off.