DEI initiatives are ineffective and have been used to unfairly prioritize candidates based on identity rather than merit, which fosters resentment among younger generations.

“You do away with DEI, you do away with the sex DEI do away with DO AWAY WITH DEI BUT MAKE IT FAIR ACROSS THE BOARD.”

Stephen A. Smith questions the dismissal of DEI, arguing it was created to address historical inequities and lack of fairness in hiring.

“If this nation, whether it's corporate America or beyond, was exercising fairness and truly truly looking for the best candidates and not engaging in favoritism that favored primarily white males, then there would never have been any need for DEI, just like there would not have been any need for aff”

DEI ideology is wrong because it holds that white people are inherently indebted to black people based on skin color, and these departments are being rejected.

“Clark has decided to affirm the single most destructive lie of the generation which is that white people are inherently indebted to black people because of their skin color and that black people solely on account of their skin color deserve special treatment at the expense of whites”

DEI initiatives often compromise organizational competence, which is the most critical requirement for public safety services like firefighting.

“a culture around ensuring that we have more black or lesbian firefighters does not seem to me to comport with a culture of Competency itself”

DEI-based ideologies are a form of grifting that simplifies group performance differences into a false binary of genetic inferiority versus systemic racism.

“KY and D'Angelo actually have a very simple um kind of bear trap mythology that they've made up that's incredibly tempting to midwit and the idea is basically there are two possible explanations for large group differences in performance”