DEI

In universities starting about 30 years ago the number of liberals began to increase so by 2000 they were a super majority in all areas except business and science but by 2015 they were a majority across the board. This led to group think and anyone who challenged that risked losing their job and there are many examples of that in the news. The new paradigm is called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and like many ideas it started out with good intentions but since everyone thought the same way it was not fully vetted and it went awry. Instead of being a set of guidelines to help open the university to a new way of looking at procedures like hiring, promoting and excepting people on their merits it became a hammer to pound the new way into the heads of people. In short order DEI found its way into business and it soon gained too much power and started to dictate company policy. Decisions were made not based on business needs but on the need to diversify and these fell into conflict. In only a few years the whole idea came under scrutiny and it was exposed as a mistake. DEI is now being discarded in business and questioned in universities. It is easy to determine which side is right in these types of conflicts. The side that wants to shut down the opposition is the wrong side. They won't argue their point, they will just call you a name and the discussion is over.