I loved how Mr Brooks, in his Tablet piece, did not hold back in his condemnation for DEI. He summed it up so well in these two lines, "The reality is that DEI is an ideology for the privileged. It helps people like Claudine Gay who exploit race for power and prestige and it hurts communities like mine by exploiting them for poverty-porn." and "It’s manipulative rhetoric, a way of exploiting Jonathan’s tragedy, and the tragedy of thousands of young men like him, on behalf of professional-class ideologues who seek to use our pain to fuel their rise through American institutions."
What I love more, though, is his positive view on how change can really be made, "The tools I give them are timeless and universal: Respect your parents, be on time, study hard, work hard, pray, be responsible, be accountable, don’t blame the white man, save money, build credit, plan for the future, get married, be a parent. You fall—get back up. Just do it." Those are universal lessons for all young people.
But, now for a serious question....if we are trying to get rid of the DEI oppressor ideology, why are people continuing to capitalize the b in Black? That just feeds into it. We need to go back to proper grammar in which both white and black are just colors, and neither should be capitalized.
I loved how Mr Brooks, in his Tablet piece, did not hold back in his condemnation for DEI. He summed it up so well in these two lines, "The reality is that DEI is an ideology for the privileged. It helps people like Claudine Gay who exploit race for power and prestige and it hurts communities like mine by exploiting them for poverty-porn." and "It’s manipulative rhetoric, a way of exploiting Jonathan’s tragedy, and the tragedy of thousands of young men like him, on behalf of professional-class ideologues who seek to use our pain to fuel their rise through American institutions."
What I love more, though, is his positive view on how change can really be made, "The tools I give them are timeless and universal: Respect your parents, be on time, study hard, work hard, pray, be responsible, be accountable, don’t blame the white man, save money, build credit, plan for the future, get married, be a parent. You fall—get back up. Just do it." Those are universal lessons for all young people.
But, now for a serious question....if we are trying to get rid of the DEI oppressor ideology, why are people continuing to capitalize the b in Black? That just feeds into it. We need to go back to proper grammar in which both white and black are just colors, and neither should be capitalized.