onOn his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order targeting the federal government’s “diversity, equity and inclusion” program. A day later, the president signed an executive order entitled “End illegal discrimination and restore merit-based opportunities.” Together, these executive orders have been used to justify the full targeting of all federal programs, grants and contracts. For example, very quickly, thousands of federal web pages were deleted, and a huge amount of data was removed from Alzheimer’s research until clinical trials were removed.
The Trump administration has adopted its main target day – diversity equity and inclusion. The executive orders that Trump signed during his first two days of office will be used to justify being targeted by federal and other agencies, and those suspected not fully loyal to the new administration To threaten the work of the dei ideology, they embody it.
In the vocabulary of the new American administration, meritocracy aims to replace employment diversity. However, what the administration means by “meritocracy” is far from its original meaning. The original meaning of “meritocracy” is a system based on ability and excellence. Based on its actions, we can see that the only indicator of the administration’s achievements is loyalty to the administration. So the attack on the DEI is Orwell’s double speaking. However, if anything, the true danger of attacking DEIs is overlooked and underestimated.
The Republican “South Strategy” that was most clearly and strongly enacted under Reagan called a federal program that supported the elimination of wealthy individuals to create a path to tax cuts, called “welfare.” By describing programs such as “welfare,” Republicans tell them that these programs exist to take money from “hard-working” white Americans and direct them to benefit Black Americans. It was meant to be. Crime, lazyness, corruption (of course, there are far more white Americans in programs aimed at helping the poorer people than Black Americans in such programs). Scientists have repeatedly discovered that the strategy was successful, at least in 2018. Research shows that almost half of white Americans consider Black Americans to be more lazy than white people, and about the same percentage think Black Americans are unintelligent. By describing certain government programs as “welfare,” politicians can easily reduce their popularity among this group of Americans.
The original version of the Republican Southern strategy was inevitably limited. After all, it was difficult to describe all federal grants as welfare, or as welfare, all federal bureaucracy. We are now witnessing a fundamental expansion of the Republican Southern strategy, taking advantage of the same underlying racist attitude towards Black Americans. The idea behind the mechanisms that extend the Republican Southern strategy to all public institutions came from Christopher Loufo, who found himself putting a powerful weapon in the phrase “critical racial theory.”
“Together, the phrase “critical racial theory” implies hostile, academic, divisive, racially obsessed, toxic, elitist, anti-Americans. “Most perfection, Rufo goes on to say that critical racial theory is not “externally applied light-jor.” Instead, “It’s a label that important race theorists chose themselves.”
By linking all federal bureaucracy to “critical racial theories,” Rufo was able to generate negative attitudes towards the entire federal system.
However, there is a clear problem with radically expanding Southern strategies by replacing “welfare” with “critical racial theory.” It was impossible to argue that federal government ideology was a critical racial theory. Critical racial theory is a small academic House, and the expression “critical racial theory” occurs almost anywhere in federal documents. It would always sound like a conspiracy theory at a canon level to argue that important race theory somehow guides the funding of research into Alzheimer’s disease at Harvard and Yale. Even when, for example, argued that critical racial theory leads public schools, his enemy simply challenges him by seeking evidence that this academic theory has so much power. It’s done. And that was evidence that even a much narrower range of education was difficult to provide.
In short, for the reasons Rufo explains so clearly, we can deploy “critical racial theory” as an effective political weapon. However, it was impossible to argue with either force that it was an ideology that governs the entire federal government.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs help ensure that workplaces are free from discrimination and accessible (for example, for people with disabilities). These programs are ubiquitous across federal agencies. Unlike critical racial theory, it is trivial to show that DEI exists in all federal agencies and institutions the Trump administration considers hostile, such as universities.
The term “welfare” was a very powerful political weapon in the Republican Southern strategy. Because black Americans were useful shorthand for more lazy racist attitudes than white people. Rufo etc. can also be used to evoke the same racist attitudes using “Dei”, to help Black Americans need special help to compete with White Americans, and the ability to I quickly realized that there was a need for a position that could only be gained through fraud because of its low intelligence. I know that calling the program “welfare” has made many Americans think too much about them. The anti-DEI campaign is the Republican Southern strategy on steroids, as effective as “Day” Marshall’s racist attitudes as well as “welfare” but very broad targets.
Republican Southern strategy was a devastatingly effective weapon against the American social safety net. By arguing that social programs were “welfare” and benefited perhaps unwanted black Americans, Republican politicians should cut funding for these programs, and savings are wealthy with new tax cuts We could insist that it should be handed over to people. A new version of the Southern Strategy is directed not only towards the social safety net, but also towards the entire federal government and all the programs it supports, from health research to foreign aid to basic science. Currently, the legacy of racism in America is currently dictated as a weapon against America itself.
