The Madness of DEI Hiring, Quarantine at Harvard for 40 Years, and More: A Commentary
Conservative: DEI Hiring Gone Mad
News that the Federal Aviation Administration’s “diversity and inclusion” recruitment efforts have it “actively seek[ing] people with severe physical and mental disabilities to join its ranks” goes to how “absolutely deranged” DEI has become, even as the “ideology has engulfed virtually every major institution of American society, tossing aside qualifications and merit in favor of so-called ‘equity,’ ” observes Corey Walker at the Washington Examiner.
Pew polling last June shows “Americans are largely divided on DEI efforts in the workplace”: Just “32% of respondents agreed that racial diversity is ‘extremely or very important,’ ” while 38% said “diversity is ‘not too/not at all important.’ ”
So “though Americans support diversity as a broad ideal, they do not view it as a priority in a workplace setting.”
Campus watch: Quarantine Harvard for 40 Years
“Harvard is looking for new management” and to “burnish” its antisemitic image, quips Dominic Green at The Wall Street Journal — yet “unlike most corporations, Harvard has no idea what it is doing.”
“When the wheels came off at Chrysler in 1978, the company brought in Lee Iacocca.” Harvard brought in Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history who “calls Israel a ‘settler colonial’ state” and signed a petition labeling it an “apartheid” regime guilty of “Jewish supremacism.”
Harvard should be “quarantined for 40 years,” ’til all today’s tenured faculty vacate.
“My children aren’t applying to Harvard or Yale. Don’t send your kids” or your checks.
Invest in new institutions: “Truth is the daughter of time, but investor preferences can hurry it along.”
Eye on NY: Union Ranks Sinking
“The decline in union membership observed nationally appears to be occurring in New York as well,” notes Empire Center’s Ken Girardin.
The state’s membership rate in just-released federal stats “was again near the top with 20.4 percent,” but it’s “another modern low.”
New York’s rate has dropped from 25% “in the lead-up to the Great Recession,” 28% in the early 1990s and nearly 35% “during the 1970s.”
Public-sector union membership began falling “after public employees won back the right to choose [not to join] following the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.”
Albany’s deference to union leaders continues, though they “speak for a shrinking share of New Yorkers.” When “will elected officials listen more to everyone else?”
COVID desk: Lab Leak Grows Ever Likelier
Washington may have to confront something “it has long sought to avoid: the increasingly likely fact that China let the SARS2 virus escape from the Wuhan lab,” argues Nicholas Wade at City Journal.
“New documents may explain why” the virus was never found in bats, namely that it “never existed in the natural world.”
The docs also “provide a recipe for assembling SARS-type viruses” adjacent to the DEFUSE project run by infamous “gain of function” research fan Peter Daszak.
“Both Beijing and Washington have covered up information about the origin of SARS2.”
Yes, “Washington may be complicit,” but “the bulk of the blame for the pandemic surely rests with Beijing.”
That “truth is enciphered in a place where, once decoded, no one can hide it: the genetic structure of the SARS2 virus itself.”
Liberal: Win the Working Class or Lose
“How working-class (noncollege) voters move will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 election,” explains The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, as they’ll be roughly two-thirds of all voters and even more “in all six key swing states.”
So President Biden’s woes with the working class put him “in a very deep hole.” Indeed, his “decline among nonwhite working-class voters if anything [is] larger than the decline among white” ones — and Democrats’ “slight gains among college-educated” aren’t “nearly enough to counter-balance the working-class losses.”
Running on “abortion rights and defending democracy” won’t do the trick.
Getting out of their cultural-left “comfort zone is essential both for beating [Donald] Trump and for any hopes they might harbor about becoming a dominant majority party in the future.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
