Keep up: ‘woke’ is out, DEI is in

Posted 3/28/23

‘Woke’ is way dated, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is the new buzz. 

Colleges across the country dedicate on average 45 staffers to DEI training, 1.4 more than history …

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Keep up: ‘woke’ is out, DEI is in

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‘Woke’ is way dated, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is the new buzz. 

Colleges across the country dedicate on average 45 staffers to DEI training, 1.4 more than history professors, 4.2 times ADA staffers.

Shop for an online DEI college course, spend a couple weeks and a couple grand, get a DEI certificate and start knocking down a six-figure salary.  That’s three times what nurses and firefighters make. Get your piece of the $8 billion companies and corporations are spending to DEI train employees.

Some politicians disappoint, but we can thank our Republican delegates to the State Capital for putting our children and their education first.  They have passed bills that require school kids to use the restroom and compete in sports that align with their birth gender. They made it illegal to give minors experimental drugs and surgeries that change their sex until they are old enough to understand the consequences.  They have removed obscene and porn-type books from school libraries and stopped the teaching of sex/gender identity. Age-appropriate laws already restrict kids from smoking, drinking, voting, driving, getting tattoos, etc. 

Consider: An Arizona teacher says parents should NOT decide what their kids are taught. He has a master’s degree and knows what society wants the kids to be taught. 

A Christian school girls’ basketball team in Vermont forfeited a game because the opposing team had a male-born player that claims to be a girl.  The school based their decision on fairness, safety and a bad precedent for women’s sports.  The Vermont Principal’s Association banned the Christian School from all future tournaments in all sports because they violated policy. Just one example of how one confused child that doesn’t understand the significance of his God-given gender assignment can punish an entire school.

To understand how we got here, think back to a former president whose campaign slogan was ‘Hope and Change’ and his mission was ‘The Fundamental Transformation of America’. On Nov. 2, 2011, he blasted congress for reaffirming our National Motto, ‘In God We Trust’ and on June 26, 2015, he lit up the White House in rainbow colors.

His then-sidekick, now president, says that laws across the country banning drag queen shows and gender re-assignment surgeries for kids are “cruel and close to sinful.”  Nonsense, any child that wants to choose their own gender should be allowed to choose their own parents. And they should be kept home from the public school so they don’t affect/infect the other kids.  

 

Leland Graber

Wayland