Roger Kimball on the awakening of former Harvard donor Bill Ackman to the reality of the Woke:
Ackman is clearly a sophisticated man. But his reflections betray a touching naiveté. He has, he tells us, always regarded diversity as a virtue. And so he was inclined to accept that initiatives taken under the rubric of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” would actually foster the values of broad-mindedness, fairness, and equal opportunity. “The more I learned,” he laments, “the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large.” Indeed. And because, as he concludes, the DEI movement is essentially a political-advocacy movement, its tentacles reach far beyond the educational establishment. Educational institutions are merely a convenient and effective port of entry – the American southern border of the mind – for the project of total societal transformation. The motto of the French Revolution was Liberté, égalité, fraternité. It was the DEI of its day. But what it delivered was not liberty, equality, and fraternity, but conformity, aggressive rewriting of history, and terror.
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