Inez Feltzscher Stepman: The Quietly Competent Side of the Trump Administration
Agreed.
Eliminating the doctrine of disparate impact seems to me to be one of the most important things the administration could do. I certainly hope it comes before the Supremes while there is still a sane majority there--who knows what the future holds?
Nuking DEI is also very important--though it's also important to realize that DEI is just a catspaw. The real problem is institutional capture by the radical left. (In academia, anyway--the only institution I can speak of with any authority.) DEI was just a broadening of the left's "diversity" ploy that's decades old. Before that, it was "multiculturalism." Now they're turning to "decolonialism." Their tactic is to come up with happy-sounding rubrics to advance their radical doctrines. I'm sure they're already at work producing new ones. Making up and redefining words is something they're good at--and it's been bizarrely effective for them. But that's a whole different topic, really... Also, of course, we have plenty of evidence that, in academia, at least, only the "Diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" language is being abandoned--the ideas and policies remain, under different words (e.g. "justice," "belonging," "access.") My own institution is still pushing "equity", apparently confident that it can get away with that one so long as the other two aren't conjoined with it.
Eliminating the doctrine of disparate impact seems to me to be one of the most important things the administration could do. I certainly hope it comes before the Supremes while there is still a sane majority there--who knows what the future holds?
Nuking DEI is also very important--though it's also important to realize that DEI is just a catspaw. The real problem is institutional capture by the radical left. (In academia, anyway--the only institution I can speak of with any authority.) DEI was just a broadening of the left's "diversity" ploy that's decades old. Before that, it was "multiculturalism." Now they're turning to "decolonialism." Their tactic is to come up with happy-sounding rubrics to advance their radical doctrines. I'm sure they're already at work producing new ones. Making up and redefining words is something they're good at--and it's been bizarrely effective for them. But that's a whole different topic, really... Also, of course, we have plenty of evidence that, in academia, at least, only the "Diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" language is being abandoned--the ideas and policies remain, under different words (e.g. "justice," "belonging," "access.") My own institution is still pushing "equity", apparently confident that it can get away with that one so long as the other two aren't conjoined with it.

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