We have been the frogs in the pot, watching political activists take over K12 without really trying to hide it. Some of us wrote it off as a phase, others assumed benign intent, and believed their children could, or would, take only the good intentions, and leave behind the the collectivism and utopian fantasies.

Perhaps you’ve even said this a time or two:

‘If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain’
– Unknown, often incorrectly attributed to Winston Churchill, but he never said it, nor would he have given his political record.

So my argument is, DEI Directors and consultants are merely the ‘commissars’ charged with enforcing strict adherence to those teachings.

“Equity” is a euphemism for “racial discrimination.”

Let’s work backwards with the acronym itself, and start with equity. The Glossary of Education Reform, defines it as follows:

Let’s dissect this a bit:

• What is their definition of “fairness,” and who gets to decide?

• What does “…that may be considered fair, but not necessarily equal” mean?

• This “—what is fair and just—may not, in the process of educating students, reflect strict equality” sounds a whole lot like “separate but equal is unconstitutional, but together, but UN-equal is fine.”

Do you think it’s the job of the government-run, taxpayer-funded system to decide who needs more time, human attention, and access to material resources? That’s what they’re saying in these statements though.

Do you trust representatives of the government to do this “fairly,” or do you think perhaps, maybe, there’s a possibility the people in charge of making those decisions might use that authority to, I dunno….advance their political agenda, or ideological goals?

Ponder these questions for a while and get back to me.

My argument is, taking taxpayer monies, compelling student attendance, and then giving those students UN-equal time, attention, and access to material resources based on race, is “racial discrimination,” it’s unconstitutional, and ought to be called out as such.

“Diversity” in all things but thought.

Critical Theory, the basis of the “anti-racist education” DEI Directors are tasked with implementing and enforcing, holds that all academic outcome disparities are the result of imbalances in power and privilege.

Effort? Talent? Intelligence? Character? Radom distribution (i.e., “luck”)? Nah, just the two: power and privilege, both of which are distributed from a fixed-pie. If a white student has good grades, it’s because he has “white privilege;” if a black student has poor grades, it’s because the white student “white privilege.” If an Asian student does well, it’s evidence of “internalized racism,” and if a black student does well, it’s “interest convergence” with white supremacy.

It’s like a social science Snickers bar: No matter how you slice it, it comes up racist.

The solution? DEI of course! Redistribute power and privilege by submitting to the DEI Director’s enforcement of anti-racism and “equity practices.”

So parsing their word-salad to get to the meaning of what they’re saying: what is “fair and just,” or “equitable” in an anti-racist school would be “discrimination” against the students whose alleged power and privilege are causing any racially-identifiable outcome disparities.

DEI practices, like Equity Audits of administrators and teachers, and prescriptions, like mandatory Black History courses in High School, make it clear that “celebrating diversity” of thought is the last thing DEI is about.

It seems more appropriate to describe what they do as institutionalizing Lockstep Ideological Exclusivity (or LIE, for short).

The success of this lie relies on a special form of gaslighting, or disputing the reality you see with your own eyes. If you challenge any part of the DEI Director’s claims or prescriptions, you’re not opening the floor for debate, or even asking legitimate questions, you are proving Critical Theory right: you are a racist.

Yes, conveniently, challengers to the DEI lie are described as evidence of the problem. What’s more, given the DEI Director’s reporting and enforcement power in your school district, challengers may be reported to employers, child protective services, even the police and FBI.

Remember, they (and their counterparts who are now ubiquitous in all the other institutions I just listed) are problem-solvers! They are there to “root out” and “eradicate” the “systemic racism” challengers (allegedly) represent.

If this is you, you’ll likely be told your concerns are evidence you don’t want to lose your power and privilege (if you’re white), or have internalized racism if you’re not. Just as there can be only one reason (racism) black and brown students are doing less well academically, there can be only one reason (racism) anyone would disagree with DEI Initiatives, and the people empowered by them.

This kind of gaslighting is called a Kafka Trap:

Kafkatrap 

(plural Kafkatraps)

1. A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.

Exclusive Inclusion.

So what do we have so far? Equity is not about fairness, and diversity is not about differences of opinion. That means, by default, “inclusion” is about exclusion.
How can you be “inclusive” when your school makes it so clear there’s only one right way to think, and all other ways are racist or -phobic?

How welcome are you going to feel when you’re told that your questions, or comments about any of this are further evidence of one of the gravest of all character flaws?

Answer: you’re not.

DEI is self-perpetuating. Discrimination and exclusion, coupled with Kafkatraps and remediation for dissenters, will create an environment where everyone is perpetually sizing up and reporting on each other’s power and privilege. This is unlikely to create a feeling of trust, and belonging. On the contrary, it’s likely to create real racism, helped along by self-segregation into “racial affinity groups.”

So what will the people allegedly tasked with ending racism on the K12 campus say then? Whom will they blame when things are worse, not better? The same people of course! Why not? Once we accept the absurd premise that people claiming to solve our problems should be the ones to identify, define and diagnose those problems, we have become what P.T. Barnum might have called “suckers.”

Insist on the truth.

So what’s the solution? How do we stop being suckers? Start by insisting on the truth, from yourself.

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.” ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I’m not suggesting you run over to the DEI office and call them liars, I’m saying ask more questions. Don’t accept their premises at face value. Press for data, and ask what controls were used when gathering the data. The phrases “How do you know,” and “Compared to what,” need to pepper your conversation.

In the unlikely event you get straight answers, you’ll likely be horrified by their candor, as they admit to their plan to operate as political operatives within the K12 system, monitoring opposition, and indoctrinating children to be political allies.

In the more likely event you get called a racist, keep questioning, but perhaps with the assistance of legal counsel for protection. Ask if your children have the same right to ask what you’re asking, but in the classroom. The answer should be yes and if it’s not, you have your proof that DEI is a LIE.