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Biden is trying to enshrine “equity” more deeply as a national policy

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One way to subvert the will of the people is by executive order, and that’s what Biden and company have chosen to do about DEI:

Last week, President Joseph Biden quietly signed an executive order that promises to create a national DEI bureaucracy and embed the principles of left-wing racialism throughout the federal government.

The order, titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” relies on three key strategies: creating internal cadres and power centers through the deployment of “Agency Equity Teams”; funding third-party political activism through grants to “community[-based] organizations”; and weaponizing civil rights law by requiring federal agencies to use artificial intelligence “in a manner that advances equity.”

“Equity” is of course the tricky word the left has adopted, in part because it sounds so much like “equality.” It’s not; not at all – it’s the institutionalization of a policy that ignores merit and prioritizes some races over others.

Congress is bypassed, purposely:

…[T]he Equity Action Plans are not anything that is sanctioned or mandated by Congress, but is an internal executive mandate to say: We want to push this ideology through every facet of the federal government. We want to have all of our policies, and programs, and funding filtered through the ideology of DEI and enforced by DEI bureaucrats.

These are hidden expenditures. If you ask the White House today, “How much money does the federal government now spend on DEI programs?,” they would not have an idea, because the idea is to decentralize it, the idea is to have it embedded everywhere in a patchwork manner that can’t be then accountable to the Congress, that can’t be accountable to the people.

The entire article is worth reading. My sense is that this sort of thing has been going on for years, although the executive order codifies and expands it. I wonder whether the Supreme Court will ultimately have something to say about this.

One counterweight that has just been announced is that Legal Insurrection has launched something called the Equal Protection Project. “Equal Protection” is not “equity.” As William Jacobson explains:

So we are organizing to investigate these things, to expose them and if necessary, to litigate them. And one of the things we’re doing, and you can sign up at our website if you’re a lawyer who wants to help in this effort, at equalprotect.org, a lawyers network speakers Because this has to be a national effort.

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Biden is trying to enshrine “equity” more deeply as a national policy — 21 Comments

  2. a policy that ignores merit and prioritizes some races over others

    Hmm… isn’t there a word for that?

  5. I’ve donated small amounts to Rufo, at the Manhattan Institute, and I guess it’s time for another donation towards this effort at Legal Insurrection.

    Any time you see “equity,” read it as “racial quotas,” although the leftist elite will be exempt, as David Foster points out.

  6. I saw a video clip of Jacobson announcing that.

    Equity is the touchy-feely euphemism for affirmative action. Or perhaps a-a is a subset of equity. The SCOTUS has a standing policy on that adjudicated over the years. As I recollect, the last decision was written by O’Connor who allowed affirmative action to continue, in spite of the Equal Protection clause, but only until 2028 when it would be reconsidered or scrapped.

    I have a feeling that some the aggressive “equity” push we are seeing now is a preemptive counterstrike against just such a reconsideration.

    The 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision

    In her majority opinion, O’Connor wrote that “race-conscious admissions policies must be limited in time,” adding that the “Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.” Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer concurred in the judgment, but did not subscribe to the belief that the affirmative measures in question would be unnecessary in 25 years. In a dissent joined by three other justices, Chief Justice William Rehnquist argued that the university’s admissions system was, in fact, a thinly veiled and unconstitutional quota system.

  7. This is grotesquely unconstitutional and perhaps even more insanely destructive of the fabric of our sorely-beleaguered republic than the opening of the southern border to millions of illegal aliens, the wielding of the corrupt FBI/DOJ against ideological enemies, the insanity of our so-called policy in Ukraine (more than one hundred billion squandered, not to mention the sabotaging of a possible negotiated settlement shortly after the beginning of the war), the destruction of our energy independence, the coddling of violent criminals by dozens upon dozens of Soros-funded DAs, and the treatment of conservative, law-abiding, tax-paying middle-class Americans by the apparatchiks of our Neo-Bolshevik ruling elite as kulaks to be trampled into oblivion.

  8. I disagree, respectfully, TommyJay, that this is “affirmative action.” The term used to mean elimination of unfair barriers and affirmatively opening all opportunities to qualified people who would previously have not been considered because they “looked different” or had the wrong grandparents.

    What we have now, instead of affirmative action, is re-segregation by perceived racial and ethnic identity. This is illegal and unconstitutional.

  9. “Last week, President Joseph Biden quietly signed an executive order that promises to create a national DEI bureaucracy and embed the principles of left-wing racialism throughout the federal government.”

    The Cloward-Piven treasonous strategy, intentionally disruptive of societal cohesion.

  10. So, an intentional destruction of the federal government by enshrining identity over competence and suitability. General Miley, call your office. One has to laugh.

  11. It’s a racial spoils system that does nothing to improve the lot of what was once called “the Black underclass.” But by advertising that some African-Americans are getting plum appointments, it does shore up the African-American vote.

  12. I try to keep on the sunny side of life, but I find this scary. It’s so hard to kill bureaucracy.

    Has anyone tried garlic? crosses? wooden stakes? silver bullets?

  13. Biden’s version of equity stops where the blue-collar working class of any skin color begins: “As he prepared to board Marine One for a weekend getaway to Delaware on Friday, [expletive deleted] Biden told reporters that he has no plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio — and that he hasn’t been invited amid rancor over the administration’s handling of the toxic train derailment.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/biden-has-no-plans-to-visit-toxic-ohio-train-derailment-site/

    He also knows he can’t match the FABULOUS new boots-on-the-ground that Mayor Pete was wearing when he visited the accident site yesterday: “The 41-year-old Buttigieg stomped around in form-fitting pants and leather dress boots as he surveyed the damage from the Feb. 3 train derailment and toxic chemical spill that shook the village near the Pennsylvania state line.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/pete-buttigiegs-boots-at-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/

  14. @ Nonapod > “a policy that ignores merit and prioritizes some races over others —
    Hmm… isn’t there a word for that?”

    @ TommyJay > “Equity is the touchy-feely euphemism for affirmative action.”

    @ Kate > “I disagree, respectfully, TommyJay, that this is “affirmative action.” ”

    The term used to mean elimination of unfair barriers and affirmatively opening all opportunities to qualified people who would previously have not been considered because they “looked different” or had the wrong grandparents.

    What we have now, instead of affirmative action, is re-segregation by perceived racial and ethnic identity.

    I agree with both Kate and TommyJay — because he is correct for what AA is now, not what it was supposed to be then.

    Kate is also correct that what was initially “sold” to the public, and was supported by many, quickly became what she describes — and the word for that is not equity but racism.

    These comments point out an error that the Right, Republicans and conservatives, make about every term now used in political discourse, in the same way that Iowahawk’s Skinsuit Theorem applies to almost every institution.

    https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/664089892599631872?lang=en

    1. Identify a respected institution. [word, term]
    2. kill it.
    3. gut it.
    4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.

    Some pundits are finally catching on and insisting that we have to quit accepting the disguise (by adopting the Left’s debased terminology) BEFORE making arguments against it; that just gives legitimacy to their definition, and biases readers against the conservative position from the outset, because they will default unconsciously to the prior, correct, usage of the terms.

    Don’t use the word “equity” for “racial discrimination.”
    Don’t use the word “liberal” for Democrats, Progressives, and Leftists.
    Don’t use the words “gender affirming” for “sexual mutilation.”

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/equal-protection-project-equalprotect-org-launched-to-fight-equity-discrimination/#comment-1377879

    Philosopher1 | February 24, 2023 at 8:27 am
    This year, 2023, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Federal government’s discriminating against white males on the basis of their race and sex — in the domain of college teaching. The Feds used the marketing slogan “Affirmative” [sic] Action to label their onslaught. They intimidated colleges by threatening to withhold all Federal monies if the colleges did not increase the %s of “minorities” and females on their tenure-track teaching rosters — which meant, since college teaching was and is a zero-sum game, that colleges must DECREASE the % of white male teachers.
    That major change in the system of hiring college teachers — substituting racial and sexual preference for merit — hit JUST as I was finishing my Ph.D. in Philosophy…as a white male who had provided active duty military service to my country in time of war (not required of the now-preferred females, BTW). I was destroyed by my own national government,

    This is exactly analogous to the way “Jim Crow” laws worked in America before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was written to end racial discrimination by Governments (IMO extending it to individuals was unConstitutional, and helped bring about the mess we have now).

    This is not “equity,” and never has been and never will be, but the Narrative depends on the general public not knowing about the skinsuit the word now wears, so that anyone opposing this false “equity” will be assumed to be the racist, rather than those supporting it.

    @ abraxas > “It’s a racial spoils system that does nothing to improve the lot of what was once called “the Black underclass.” But by advertising that some African-Americans are getting plum appointments, it does shore up the African-American vote.”

    Genuine affirmative action (and now genuine equity) would have taken more work, and a vast improvement of schools for the unfairly disadvantaged (not all of whom were black or female; poor white males also faced barriers) so that more people were prepared to take advantages of the opening opportunities.
    The lazy way was just to implement quotas (under various disguises), but since the work of creating people to fill them wasn’t done, then the next lazy step was to lower the standards.

    None of that improved the situation of the people who AA was supposed to help.
    In fact, the conditions of life for most black people in Democrat-run cities has deteriorated alarmingly, as any morning’s headlines will affirm.

    This so-called “equity” will have the same result, if it doesn’t make things even worse, which I suspect it will.

  15. As always, David Foster’s post is on target, only needing a shift from “equality” to “equity” to be up-to-date with the current Narrative Dictionary.
    (And the comments are also very worthwhile for showing that the Left’s machinations have been going on for a long time.)

    The reality is that “progressivism” is not in any way about equality [or equity], it is rather about shifting the distribution of power and wealth in a way that benefits those with certain kinds of educational credentials and certain kinds of connections. And remember, power and connections are always transmutable into wealth

    The shift now is not only to the individuals we usually consider the credentialed, connected elites (Clintons, Kennedys, etc), but also to the legion of unelected, but credentialed and connected, bureaucrats hired to be the hall monitors and gatekeepers of Equity.
    NEVER to the “oppressed minorities” that Biden Inc’s EO allegedly champions.

    Make Orwell Fiction Again.
    And quit falling into the Kafkatraps.

    https://ricochet.com/774563/the-illogic-of-the-kafkatrap-no-one-can-ever-be-innocent-again/

    links to
    https://lifelessons.co/critical-thinking/kafkatrapping/

    links to Eric Raymond’s coining of the term in 2010 (some paragraphing added):
    http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122

    Good causes sometimes have bad consequences. Blacks, women, and other historical out-groups were right to demand equality before the law and the full respect and liberties due to any member of our civilization; but the tactics they used to “raise consciousness” have sometimes veered into the creepy and pathological, borrowing the least sane features of religious evangelism.

    One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.”

    I’ve been presented with enough instances of this recently that I’ve decided that it needs a name. I call this general style of argument “kafkatrapping”, and the above the Model A kafkatrap.

    In this essay, I will show that the kafkatrap is a form of argument that is so fallacious and manipulative that those subjected to it are entitled to reject it based entirely on the form of the argument, without reference to whatever particular sin or thoughtcrime is being alleged. I will also attempt to show that kafkatrapping is so self-destructive to the causes that employ it that change activists should root it out of their own speech and thoughts.

    My reference, of course, is to Franz Kafka’s “The Trial”, in which the protagonist Josef K. is accused of crimes the nature of which are never actually specified, and enmeshed in a process designed to degrade, humiliate, and destroy him whether or not he has in fact committed any crime at all. The only way out of the trap is for him to acquiesce in his own destruction; indeed, forcing him to that point of acquiescence and the collapse of his will to live as a free human being seems to be the only point of the process, if it has one at all.

    This is almost exactly the way the kafkatrap operates in religious and political argument. Real crimes – actual transgressions against flesh-and-blood individuals – are generally not specified.

    The aim of the kafkatrap is to produce a kind of free-floating guilt in the subject, a conviction of sinfulness that can be manipulated by the operator to make the subject say and do things that are convenient to the operator’s personal, political, or religious goals. Ideally, the subject will then internalize these demands, and then become complicit in the kafkatrapping of others.

    Raymond gives a taxonomy of the various forms of the Kafkatrap (further expanded in the lifelessons post), most of which Neo’s readers will recognize.
    All of them exhibit this flaw, which the Ricochet post focuses on:

    Having shown how manipulative and psychologically abusive the kafkatrap is, it may seem almost superfluous to observe that it is logically fallacious as well.

    The particular species of fallacy is sometimes called “panchreston”, an argument from which anything can be deduced because it is not falsifiable.

    Notably, if the model A kafkatrap is true, the world is divided into two kinds of people: (a) those who admit they are guilty of thoughtcrime, and (b) those who are guilty of thoughtcrime because they will not admit to being guilty of thoughtcrime. No one can ever be innocent. The subject must be prevented from noticing that this logic convicts and impeaches the operator of the kafkatrap!

  16. A prescient comment:
    http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122#comment-258885
    “God forbid anybody point out any systemic injustices against the oppressors.”

    I haven’t seen many people actually identify the usual tactics of the Leftist Media as kafkatraps, but DeSantis & his team have learned how to avoid them.

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/22/andrea-mitchell-told-a-big-lie-about-ron-desantis-but-the-florida-man-gets-the-last-laugh-n707340

    To be clear, DeSantis has never suggested that slavery not be taught in Florida schools, and there is no law or order at any level of the state’s government that carries out such a farcical decree. The lack of journalistic ethics didn’t go unnoticed, though. When various NBC news bookers came calling for DeSantis to appear on their shows, his team shut them down.

    To all of the bookers and producers reaching out to our office from @NBCNews and @MSNBC for @GovRonDeSantis to join your shows, this will be the standard response from our office until @mitchellreports apologizes and your track record improves. pic.twitter.com/8kQcLLEVzW [no consideration of anything related to NBC or its affiliates]
    — Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) February 22, 2023

  17. We know we should not take Biden’s call for “equity” seriously until he acknowledges that having trained pilots on Air Force One and Marine One is “ableist”. To prove that he is not ableist, and that he fully supports equity, he should call for the Air Force and the USMC to recruit his pilots from the inner city or a Native American Reservation. No prior training required — or accepted.

    This would truly be “. . .a policy that ignores merit and prioritizes some races over others.’

    Put or shut up, Mr. President!

  19. well they stole it irish, certainly not fair and square, but close enough for the wreckers, akin to which bronze age band of bandits, equity is a web that envelops everything including northern southern, alan shaw was all in on their cult of devolution, and east palestine, and the ohio river valley are responsible,

  20. “Merely” this (from sea to shining sea):
    ‘ Minnesota HS Student: ‘Principal’s Attempt to Unify Us’ Ended Up ‘Pitting Us Against Each Other Based on Characteristics We Can’t Control’ ;
    ‘ “After a year of teachers telling me I’m a racist, I have never noticed race more” ‘—
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/minnesota-hs-student-principals-attempt-to-unify-us-ended-up-pitting-us-against-each-other-based-on-characteristics-we-cant-control/

    Compare with:
    “ANALYSIS: Universities offer DEI degrees as students flee to traditional liberal arts colleges;
    “Many institutions are now offering minors, majors, and masters degrees in diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice topics.”—
    Campus Reform reported earlier this month that several Christian liberal arts colleges are experiencing double-digit increases in admissions or enrollment.
    https://campusreform.org/article?id=21388

    As “Biden” crows…while the destruction proceeds…full speed ahead.
    “Watch: White House Brags About Most Staff Being Black, Female, Or LGBTQ+”—
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-white-house-brags-about-most-staff-being-black-female-or-lgbtq
    + Bonus of sorts… (two cries of despair from Lincoln Brown):
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/02/23/to-my-sorrow-there-can-be-no-common-ground-with-the-left-n1673385
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/02/24/scott-adams-says-white-people-should-get-the-hell-away-from-black-people-n1673469

    If one was under the impression that Obama was America’s “most successful president”, then I’m sorry to report that “Biden” has exceed him.

  21. rush hoped that obama’s political project ‘failed’ sadly it succeeded all too well, and most of what trump put in, was washed away like canute,

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