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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dei-retreat-widens-as-citigroup-and-pepsico-roll-back-diversity-policies-154956511.html

DEI retreat widens as Citigroup and PepsiCo roll back diversity policies

Once the USAID funding for globohomo dries up, companies won't pony up the cash/profits to continue it.

This is the definitive proof that globohomo was fake.

https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/legal-ed-council-suspends-accreditation-standard-focused-on-diversity

ABA Legal Ed council suspends accreditation standard focused on diversity

The council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has suspended enforcement of the accreditation standard originally titled “Diversity and Inclusion” until Aug. 31 in the wake of a Trump administration executive order mandating the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and demands by the U.S. Department of Education that academic institutions eliminate DEI polices or risk federal funding cuts. ...

“The committee’s view is that with the executive orders and the law being in flux, it would be an extreme hardship for law schools if our standards were to require them to do certain things that may cause them to take more litigation risks and potentially violate the law,” said Daniel Thies, chair-elect of the council and co-chair of its Strategic Review Committee. ...

The section’s council is recognized by the Department of Education as the sole accrediting body for U.S. law schools and is an independent arm of the ABA for that function. Most states require applicants of the state bar to be graduates of an ABA-accredited law school.

The Department of Education should not exist either.

https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/diversity-related-training-what-is-it-good-for/

Diversity-Related Training: What Is It Good For?

The bolshevik motive is always subversion. These programs crystallize discrimination through resentment of the unequally placed minority, who is also incompetent and damaging in their position but have focused their energies on 'faking it'. Nobody gives these individuals credibility. That also damages minorities who might actually achieve competency. It is also why so many of them wind up in government positions because private industry does not want them unless 'forced' to take them and then create shells around them and their harms.

So the role of the government becomes to absorb these where their do nothing jobs create the least harm but also bung up the works with inefficiency.

https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/diversity-related-training-what-is-it-good-for/

Department of Education online form for submitting evidence of DEI in education found.
https://enddei.ed.gov/

https://nitter.poast.org/DataRepublican/status/1896731631060222203#m

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Mar 4
🚨 I Am Living Proof That DEI Is Fake 🚨

It’s been almost a week since I was doxxed, and my life has changed permanently. A traditional Big Tech job is no longer an option—not because I lack the skills or experience, but because of what I’ve stood for. I didn’t do this for profit; I was already successful. And I don’t want to frame myself as a victim.

But here’s the reality: if I had aligned with the “right” ideology, my identity alone—deaf, female, and so on—would have been enough to open doors, maybe even land me a movie deal. Instead, my stance has made me a target to the point that I’ve had to completely uproot my life.

I’m incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support I’ve received on X and am leaning into it. But that support exists alongside an equally extreme level of hatred—hatred so intense that it has forced me to leave. That contrast should serve as a wake-up call. DEI, as it’s commonly practiced, isn’t about inclusion or equity. It’s about ideological conformity. And if proof is needed, I am it.

And the supreme irony is that the most vicious attacks by far have come because of my diversity credentials.

But also super grateful for X once again and I do feel like the most loved person in the nation despite everything.

I will never back down!

Patrick says

This means that whale crowned this year's winner.

White privilege.

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-fires-woke-nato-admiral-spreading-leftist-ideology/

President Donald Trump has fired a top NATO admiral accused of spreading leftist ideology.

The Pentagon confirmed that Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield was let go over the weekend as Trump continues a purge of “woke” officials.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Chatfield was removed “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” ...

Trump has fired a number of top military officers who advocate “woke” ideas.

Those officials include former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown.

Brown, who is black, pushed to lower the number of white officers in the Air Force.

At my workplace, there hasn't been a peep about DEI over the last month. We were being beat over the head with that shit for the past 4 years. Amazing how much money from USAID it took to maintain this astroturf movement - now that there's no money, the whole thing collapses.

In the meantime, that whole thing weakened out the old boy network so much that now the chindians have seized their chance. It's getting ugly.

MASSIVE news: IBM is ENDING their DEI policies. I notified
@IBM
recently that I would be exposing their woke policies. In response they engaged with me and agreed to MASSIVE changes.

I can now exclusively tell you what’s changing:

• IBM NO LONGER has a DEI department

• IBM WILL NOT participate in @HRC’s woke CEI social credit scoring system going forward

• IBM will NO LONGER use the term Latinx

• IBM have ELIMINATED their Diversity Council

• IBM has ENDED their DEI "Be Equal" Podcast

• IBM will NO LONGER endorse the so called "Equality Act" which would have legalized men who say they’re trans playing in girl’s sports and entering women’s spaces

• IBM has ENDED their "I’m In Allyship" campaign

• IBM’s supplier strategy has shifted from a focus on diverse suppliers to a focus on ALL small businesses and veteran owned businesses

• IBM WILL NOT have a corporate policy encouraging preferred pronoun usage

• IBM training WILL NOT include Allyship training

• IBM will hire the best candidates regardless of race

• Diversity goals are NO LONGER part of the executive compensation plan at IBM

IBM has around 293,000 employees and a market cap of around $250 BILLION dollars. Those employees will now have a better workplace because of the changes we inspired.

We’ve now changed policy at companies worth well over $5 Trillion dollars and MILLIONS of employees now have better work environments as a result of our reports.

We’de winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.

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Companies can see that America wants sanity back. The era of wokeness is dying right in front of our eyes. The landscape of corporate America is quickly shifting to sanity and neutrality. We are the trend, not the anomaly.

So far you’ve helped me change corporate policy at Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley Davidson, Polaris, Indian Motorcycle, Lowe’s, Ford, Coors, Stanley Black & Decker, Jack Daniels, DeWalt tools, Craftsman, Caterpillar, Boeing, Toyota, Walmart, McDonald’s, META, Target, Accenture, Pepsi, Gatorade, Rockstar Energy, AT&T, Corona Beer, Modelo Beer, Pacifico Beer and now IBM!

We’re a force to be reckoned with and we won’t stop until wokeness is extinct. Share this to make sure everyone knows this is happening and let’s keep this movement growing!

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1910425361034383545

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-ending-dei-programs-seeks-131333966.html

Verizon ending DEI programs as it seeks US approval for Frontier deal

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-imago-dei

The psychological mechanism that lends equality its allure is Nietzsche’s ressentiment: the curdled envy felt by those who know they are botched products of nature, in the sense that they are inherently weaker, less beautiful, less talented, less healthy, less biologically fit than others, to such a degree that they will never, under their own power, rise to the top. Despite these disadvantages they desire power, they want to be on the top. Contemporary academic theorists all but throw this in your face with their position that all discourse, all language, all scholarship, all science, all philosophy, all religion, every word ever spoken or written, reduces to elaborate justifications for one person or group to have power over another, so what do you think they’re doing themselves? Using their words to gain power, obviously. They aren’t strong enough to take and keep power directly, so they must use trickery. They need to convince their natural superiors to believe in things that aren’t true, things whose inevitable consequence is to put them, and not someone else, in charge ... ideally in such a way that they can claim not to be in charge at all. They subjugate their victims by getting them to believe in false abstractions.

If this characterization of the desire for equality as emerging from envy strikes you as uncharitable, consider the emotional dynamics of the Yarvin-Allen debate. Yarvin certainly doesn’t believe in equality, yet while he could not resist trollishly toying with his overmatched opponent, he was gracious and polite throughout. Despite Allen being in every formal sense Yarvin’s professional superior, Yarvin did not show the slightest trace of envy towards her position. Conversely Allen, who claims to believe in the universal equality of man, clearly did not actually consider Yarvin her moral equal: she treated him contemptuously, as something unclean, something beneath her, like a perfumed noblewoman who’d stepped in something unpleasant. This seems oddly incongruous with her own professed ideals ... just as Yarvin’s courtesy seems, at first glance, out of step with his elitist embrace of hierarchy. Shouldn’t Yarvin have been the arrogant one? And yet there is no real paradox here, once you see that Allen’s ideals are born of envy, not of love, and that underneath the brittle facade of her professional persona with all its honours and accolades and privileges she hears the inner whisper of that troublesome imp, Imposter Syndrome, which by academics’ own reports haunts every hall of higher learning these days. She acts the noble, but knows herself the peasant, and so overreacts with exaggerated scorn when she encounters one she knows to be her natural better ... one whom she envies.

Allen’s entire demeanour indicates that she does not really believe in moral equality. She considers Yarvin to be morally inferior to her, precisely because he is her superior in more natural ways. She resents him for this, and hates him even more deeply for refusing to play her language game in which they both pretend that the two of them are equals. When she says she believes in equality, she is lying. She is lying because this is the lie that gives her power.

The General Lee is back! With the Stars & Bars on top!

It's gonna be very awkward when Netflix makes a remake with two gay black dudes now.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/miracles-monday-august-4-2025-c-and

On Friday, the D.C. District Court officially dismissed Luevano v. Ezell, a Carter-era consent decree that banned cognitive testing for federal jobs and birthed the modern DEI mandate in civil service. ... Harmeet Dhillon: “The Justice Department reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.”

Luevano’s demise isn’t just a policy tweak. It’s another tectonic shift. The decree had barred aptitude tests since 1981 and imposed two race-preferential hiring tracks, gatekeeping credentialism, and boosting the unqualified. Now, the gates are open again. Federal hiring is poised to return to a selection-based system, and private employers will probably rush past. After decades of progressives slavishly worshiping the golden calf of credentials, the meritocrats have finally come down from the mountain.

Let’s tackle a little history so we can understand what just happened.

Before Luevano, applicants for most federal jobs had to take something called the “Civil Service Exam.” The CSE was a standardized, general cognitive ability test the federal government used to assess applicants for entry-level white-collar jobs, especially the so-called “professional and administrative” positions (GS-5 through GS-9). It primarily tested I.Q. —general intelligence apart from formal education— in terms of verbal, mathematical, and analytical reasoning.

The CSE worked well, ensuring the federal government was generally staffed with smart people. But in 1979, a group of Black and Hispanic plaintiffs sued, arguing that the CSE resulted in a disparate impact for minority candidates. They didn’t claim intentional discrimination, but rather that, statistically speaking, the test produced racially disparate outcomes.

The Carter Administration didn’t fight the lawsuit. Carter’s DOJ essentially agreed, and entered into a voluntary “consent decree” that abolished a mandatory CSE, banned any future replacement test, and automatically made eligible any candidates with a 3.5 GPA or a top-third class ranking— thereby effectively substituting credentials for capability.

Thus, Luevano’s Consent Decree became the original root or wellspring of what would inexorably metastasize into the formal DEI infrastructure, which first took hold in the federal government and then infected every company doing business with the government, through contractor mandates and purchasing preferences. Over the years, it predictably mushroomed far beyond race to ritualistically preference sex, national origin, atypical sexual proclivities, insanity (“neurodivergence”), and most recently, outright, bona-fide mental disorders like gender dysphoria and autogynephilia.

That’s all over now. And the implications are staggering.

Possibly the most annoying symptom of the DEI credentialist era was the rise of the so-called “expert class” of midwit officials making policy and swanking their credentials throughout the pandemic. There are so many examples. Transsexual, luggage-stealing nuclear waste disposal directors. Senators cosplaying as Indians. Doctors who believe men can get pregnant. And my favorite example: obviously sick people running our public health system, such as LA County’s corpse-like health supervisor, Barbara Ferrer:




This kind of deranged thinking —the terror of using merit or inherent intelligence in hiring— infected everything. I have written extensively about the “big freeze” in arts, culture, and science that caused the post-millennial period to be the least fruitful era in modern history. For one example, in 2020, the American Economic Review published a paper concluding that, despite ubiquitous computers, the Internet, and more money than Solomon dreamed of, research productivity still fell sharply during the previous two decades...

“Everywhere we look,” the researchers said, “we find that ideas are getting harder to find.” If only someone could have seen this coming.

It is difficult to find a Nobel prize in the post-2000 period worth discussing at all.

And since grades and degrees became the new currency for earning well-paying employment instead of merit, skills, or qualifications, the Academy began aggrandizing an outsized political influence. Going to college became not just something kids did to pursue their interests, but they did it just to have a chance of getting a job. A vast parade of horribles ensued: grade inflation, social promotion, rising costs of college degrees, and a sprawling, federally-guaranteed student loan industry that collected in advance the first twenty years of kids’ expected earnings.

It no longer matters how smart a kid is. Critical thinking became a handicap. It now mostly matters only where kids went to school, and how well they conformed by pleasing their grade-awarding professors.

By cutting all this off at the original roots, President Trump has reset the game. Merit is back. The sharp decline in good ideas is almost over. Since it touches everything, it is literally impossible to imagine how wonderfully this single change will affect the arts, sciences, economy, and culture.

The end of credentialism is once again going to highlight the obvious differences in AVERAGE intelligence by race.

AVERAGE, not deterministic per individual. See the graph James Damore made:

https://patrick.net/post/1326489/2019-08-14-cnn-openly-hates-white-people?start=1#comment-1612047



This biological reality is absolutely unacceptable to everyone on the left, and even to most on the right. So now what?

On the one hand, meritocracy is essential for the functioning of our society. On the other hand, it exposes the truth which must never be spoken, the ultimate taboo.

WRT to 10.23 post: there are quite a few Nobel prizes worth discussing: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2019 in chemistry immediately come to mind. I am sure other fields also have something worthwhile. Just because writer is clueless does not mean good stuff does not exist.

Patrick says

On Friday, the D.C. District Court officially dismissed Luevano v. Ezell, a Carter-era consent decree that banned cognitive testing for federal jobs and birthed the modern DEI mandate in civil service. ... Harmeet Dhillon: “The Justice Department reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.”

BUT, that doesn't mean every department has to use the CSE, correct? They could still hire the same old way, correct?

https://x.com/ThomBrady5/status/1972055383306129466

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-admin-officially-designates-dei-violation-human-rights/

Trump Admin Officially Designates DEI as Violation of Human Rights

President Donald Trump’s administration has issued new instructions to U.S. embassies and consulates that significantly broaden the criteria used to evaluate foreign governments for potential human rights violations. ...

The updated guidance directs diplomats to categorize certain government-enforced DEI policies as potential human rights concerns.

According to a senior State Department official, the revised criteria are intended to address situations where policies “result in discrimination, limit equal opportunity, or restrict individual freedoms.”

The administration argues that DEI mandates in some countries have created systems that prioritize identity categories over merit and equal treatment.

Officials say the new standards reflect the administration’s commitment to opposing employment practices or government policies abroad that treat citizens differently based on race, gender, or other identity classifications.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-commits-ending-dei-programs-214653486.html

AT&T commits to ending DEI programs

Gerry McGovern, CEO of Jaguar, finally out after a year of a disastrous rebranding campaign:

https://x.com/Genghis_McCann/status/1996288045687926937?s=20