The circumstances surrounding the dismissal of the DEI administrator at the University of Michigan provide one more reason to review for overreach and wasteful spending involving all such programming.
Rachel Dawson, the fired director of the university’s Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, was let go for “extremely poor” judgment in her choice of words that revealed deep-seated anti-Semitism.
The concept of DEI, as implemented in various government, educational, and corporate offices, is to aggressively police one’s agency to not only root out racism, sexism, genderism, ageism, and every other “ism” but to harass and threaten the work force and/or student body to adopt politically correct language and opinions.
America is fully committed to stamping out discrimination based on race, religion, and gender in the workplace. It’s illegal and it should not be tolerated in any disguise.
DEI, to the extent that it has good intentions, is supposed to be assertive, rather than passive, in the quest to defend and protect people who have been discriminated against.