Brendan O'Neill: You know who will cheer the death of DEI? The working class

So, is it RIP DEI? The boss class’s favourite ideology certainly seems to be in trouble. Big business everywhere is rethinking its devotion to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’. As part of his coming out as a pretty standard tech bro who bristles at woke and loves Joe Rogan, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said DEI might be for the chopping block. He even instructed his minions to take the tampons out of the men’s bathrooms at Meta HQ. Expecting people who menstruate to use the ladies’ loo? Guys, this is big.

Centrist: Mission creep at Diversity Works NZ leads to taxpayer-funded DEI activism

Tracing the shift in mandate

The ongoing shift in Diversity Works NZ’s focus from equal opportunity to equal outcome employment is an example of the type of mission creep common in publicly funded entities.

A registered charity, heavily funded by taxpayers, Diversity Works NZ, the trading name for the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust, was established in 1992 under the National government.