Last week, a company looking to hire new employees posted their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy online. The statement:
While this racist, homophobic, white nationalist Statement deeply offended woke and semi-woke college students across the nation, I admire their simple, easy to understand policy, expressed by Craig.
Although the upper ranks of Woke Incorporated still mostly consist of white men, new talent hires are being fed to the sharks of political correctness, leaving companies like Disney standing on a sinking DEI ship. In spite of this reality, DEI (DIE) is not dead yet. Our liberal SDA academic centers still cling to it like strands of cooked spaghetti cling to one other. Example:
Two weeks ago, the Adventist Review ran a story on La Sierra University.
“The search process for a new president is underway with a strong set of candidates who have applied.
“New hires will include refilling four vacant marketing positions, an alumni director’s post, and an associate provost’s position, and fully funding a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officer’s post, among others.”
If I was the Review editor (don’t worry, I’m not), I would have ran Darla Tucker’s piece about La Sierra only after scrubbing the Diversity Equity and Inclusion sentence from it as an act of urgent spiritual hygiene. We don’t need that nonsense in our flagship Adventist magazine. Dear La Sierra and Adventist Review: Be like Craig.
The moral DNA of liberal Adventism has been completely rewritten so that everything from freedom of expression to the value of human life is now weighed in terms of identity politics. Even the most basic moral questions on liberal campuses are reduced to the plastic paradigms of oppressor and oppressed. Right and wrong are determined by your position on the intersectional totem pole. This woke principle even guides selections like a new (interim) Columbia Union president. Word on the street is it’s someone in this picture.
To the serpentine SDA liberal who demands justice for Hamas, the question of whether it is wrong to murder, rape and kidnap is a question to which the answer is no longer “yes”, but “Were the victims or the killers members of an oppressed group?”
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (finally got the right order) has no place in the Body of Christ. You see, the purpose of diversity is diversity. It's not to make anything better. It's pure quantity over quality with the quantity being that of exoticism.
Diversity is a good thing if it's based on quality, rather than quantity (like the Great Multitude standing on the sea of glass — Revelation 7). If our institutions select people with different points of view who can contribute to sound biblical orthodoxy, that’s a good thing. If you select people who shout at you, demanding that you promote them for being professional victims, that’s a bad thing.
The death of DEI is one funeral that I look forward to.
I’ll even bring flowers.
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“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes” (Psalm 119:11-12).