Ele Ludemann: Dangers of DEI

Good news that DEI appointments in the public service are numbered:

The Taxpayers’ Union is today celebrating a significant policy victory following Public Service Minister Judith Collins’ announcement that she intends to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements from the Public Service Act. Appointments would be made on the basis of merit, not identity, bringing the focus back to competence and capability.

Taxpayers’ Union spokesman James Ross said:

Mike's Minute: The "Trumpian" influence is global

Say whatever you want about Trump, but his demeanour and influence is genuinely global.

Peter Dutton has been accused of his "Trumpian" stance on everything from the public service to immigration, and now Winston Peters is all over DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion.

Wendy Geus: Could Matt Doocey's transgender stance be contributing to anxiety in our young?

Could Matt Doocey's transgender stance be contributing to anxiety in our young - like Ardern's mythical 'climate emergency'?

I sent an email to Winston Peters after I read New Zealand First has introduced a Member's Bill to remove Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness regulations from our public service, congratulating him on his decision. No doubt mine was not the only one. I felt jubilant at the thought of a politician finally addressing this issue.

Dr James Kierstead: The heterodox hiatus

A few years ago, when I was still a classics lecturer, I started to notice a disturbing trend. Scholars were being denounced on Twitter (RIP) for wrongthink. Scholarly associations put out asinine statements uncritically aligning themselves with the latest political trends. Papers were retracted, books withdrawn from publication, and visiting speakers deplatformed.

Sam Karnick: Trump’s Colorblind Agenda

The biggest story of the past week was, of course, Donald Trump’s return to the White House and his quick action on numerous policy fronts through a flurry of sweeping executive orders and other initiatives.

Trump implemented reforms all across the federal government in just one week, taking an even bolder course than he did upon assuming office in 2017. Trump’s first week of work this time was nothing less than the start of an organized and comprehensive effort to reform the federal government to reflect and promote traditional American values.

John Sailer: How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities

An obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion threatens students, professors, and the very credibility of higher education in the U.S.

In June 2020, Gordon Klein, a longtime accounting lecturer at UCLA, made the news after a student emailed him asking him to grade black students more leniently in the wake of the “unjust murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.”