This article was originally published by Rhoda Wilson at The Daily Exposé.
The diversity, equity, and inclusion (âDEIâ) regime has assumed a few names since the summer of 2020, among them: âwokeâ and âcancel culture.â But it can be more precisely referred to as âcritical social justice.â
So, what exactly is critical social justice that so many in the Western world have been forcibly subjected to?
Over the past three years, Western societies have devoted immense resources to promoting and even mandating diversity, equity, and inclusion (âDEIâ) initiatives and practices, such as anti-racist and unconscious bias training, in almost all spheres of society. Indeed, the DEI regime has become so all-encompassing and penetrating that ordinary people, ones whose life trajectories have no intersection with an academic activist culture or parts of the internet soaked in a cultural war, find their livelihoods are nonetheless entangled, frankly, saddled with, or even jeopardized by a variety of DEI policies, programs and the discourse itself.
So, what exactly is DEI, that over half of workers in the US receive its training at work? What exactly is DEI that companies, universities, and government can require a written commitment to its principles? Isnât DEI just another name for the commonsensical opposition to discrimination against people on the grounds of their race, sex, sexuality, or any number of immutable attributes? The answer is no.
As Helen Pluckrose writes in her 2024 book âThe Counterweight Handbook: Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justiceâat Work, in Schools, and Beyondâ, the DEI regime is âinextricably connected with an illiberal, authoritarian ideology,â which has assumed a few names since the summer of 2020, among them: âwokeâ and âcancel culture.â But, Pluckrose summarises, it can be more precisely referred to as âcritical social justice,â which she understands as a particular âapproach to
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