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I receive frequent emails that I subscribe to from Christopher F. Rufo. I will quote his email and then comment on its content. I received this message from Rufo on 3/5/2024, entitled, Giving DEI the Pink Slip—Major institutions have started rolling back their diversity bureaucracies.

 

Here is Rufo (R after this): “Last year, conservatives began taking action against the ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ bureaucracy. The Manhattan Institute released a model policy to abolish DEI, exposed abuses in public universities, and advised political leaders, most notably Florida governor Ron DeSantis, in the crafting of legislation abolishing public-university DEI programs at the state level. To date, three states—Florida, Texas, and Tennessee—have passed laws abolishing or restricting DEI. A total of 17 states have either passed such laws are considering them.”

 

My response: This progress and victories gained by Rufo and other defenders of conservatism in America and the West, are most welcome, and augur well that the political and cultural counterrevolution to take back America and make it great again, are well underway. However, I am pleased but not satisfied.

 

We need Mavellonialist reform politically and culturally to take classical America, with its Judeo-Christian heritage and its altruist-egoist morality, to the next level to preserve the counterrevolution, once it is restored.

 

If we rear up a generation of upper middle-class, God-fearing, individually gun-toting, Bible-quoting, anarchist-indviduator supercitizens, dedicated personally to organizing, and as a savvy volunteers, working with each other to make society run along lines consistent with their agenda, a united group of citizens, who run and sustain this small-government, capitalist constitutional republic, for years to come; then we have the politico-economic-cultural society in place that will keep restored America great for decades.

 

R: “Our efforts are bearing fruit. Last week, the University of Florida, the flagship state institution, announced that it had dissolved its DEI department and terminated the employment of all DEI officials. UF was spending an astonishing $5 million per year on DEI programs, which university president Ben Sasse wisely redirected toward faculty recruitment. The new budget would presumably include recruitment for UF’s Hamilton Center, a new home for conservative scholars. Sasse also offered a positive alternative to DEI, promising to hold the institution to the much better standard of ‘universal human dignity’.”

 

My response: If we use the moral standard of universal human dignity as our mantra, I can think of no better means of achieving that goal that to teach the young to accept that they have the power—God-given, of course, and this natural force resides innate inside them at that, waiting for them to use it to live their telos, to maverize for a lifetime—to self-actualize, and that is the most liberating act available to any and all humans. If guided by a morality of egoism-individualism/egoism/altruism, then the dignity of humans can be universally or approximately realized, in regard to self-care and other-care.

 

R: “Conservatives are rightly celebrating the move as a watershed. DEI is not an inevitability: it is a choice that can be undone.”

 

My response: True, but humans are still born evil, still altruistic, and still self-hating. Without Mavellonialist, improved, cultural advancement and training techniques taught by parents to the young anew with each new generation of children, urging anarchist-individuating supercitizenship as a citizenry norm, young people naturally slide back into default existing: class stratification economics, mass rule by the elite, discontented pack-living and socially reinforced nonindividuating that culminated in the threatening arrival on the current American scene of totalitarian, ideologized, religiofied Leftism, the latest holy cause.

 

R: “Corporate America is following suit. Firms including Goodge, Meta and Zoom have quietly cut back DEI departments and laid off employees. I have recently spoken with a number of Fortune 500 executives, who explained that, following the summer of George Floyd, companies felt immense pressure to ‘do something’ about racial disparities.”

 

My response: Notice how corporate elites panicked and stampeded just like the politicians do every time there is a mass shooting: Mindless or cynical politicians feel they have to do something, so they pass destructive, unproductive repressive laws that restrict liberty and civil rights of gun-owning, law abiding citizens, and grow the authoritarian, power-hungry state and its desire to run the lives of free citizens. These restrictive gun laws do not prevent crime, but they do make America less free and less secure.

 

The corporate elites did something: bringing HR employees coercive training session. These woke, true believers in DEI, were brought onboard to interfere and brainwash corporate employees from holding imaginary, supposed, tendentious microaggressions or unconscious bias practices aimed against victim groupist employees, highlighted by the Left.

 

R: “But four years later, they have realized DEI programs undermine productivity, destroy merit-based systems, and poison corporate culture.”

 

My response: Amen.

 

R: “Because of our successful campaign to expose the true nature of DEI, they now have political space—in essence, the social permission—to wind down these programs.”

 

My response: We need to rear up a generation if willful, wise, smart, independent, individuating supercitizens that give themselves individual permission to speak, believe, act and conclude what they will, and never should social permission compel their moral conformity, though we should always acknowledge that others’ suggestions and criticisms of our philosophy and behaviors is a welcome check on how we are conducting ourselves, though we as individuators insist upon having the final say as to what we will say, believe, choose, do and conclude.

 

R: “But we need to do much more. The best way to conceptualize DEI is as the marriage of ideology and bureaucracy, or, more specifically, as the marriage between critical race theory and affirmative action.”

 

My response: I will delay reacting to how Rufo conceptualizes DEI as the marriage between critical race theory and affirmative action for now, but I applaud him for his brilliant insight that DEI is a marriage between ideology and bureaucracy.

 

How I interpret that view this statement is through the lens of egoist-individualist morality hermeneutics. DEI is a doctrine that grows out of the holy cause of neo-cultural Marxism. Whether the active phase mass movement of Progressivism (not currently unleashed in America) was rampaging radically and violently to overturn the current dispensation—so that marginalized racial and gender groups now favored are allowed preference and favor over despised, downgraded groups like white, males and heterosexuals—or the more gradual, evolutionary/nonrevolutionary, slower phase of the revolution as mass movement (what is occurring here now) is pushed by ruling elites in all kinds of public and private institutions and their bureaucracies, these crazed, true-believing ideologues are imposing their totalitarian values and views upon every member of or touched by every bureaucracy.

 

R: “On their path to power, DEI activists hijacked the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which, in spirit, enshrines the policies of colorblind nondiscrimination—to justify active discrimination against supposed ‘oppressor’ groups. In doing this, they have gained significant leverage. While the recent firings of DEI employees are a salutary development, the movement to restore colorblind equality can succeed only if we reform civil rights law to reinstate its original focus on individual rights under the law, without regard to race—and dramatically reduce the footprint of critical race ideologies in public universities.”

 

My response: The marriage, between critical race theory (Nonwhite racial and gender groups; collectivism and group rights) are favored legal and culturally over whites and individuals and individual rights, so CRT and DEI would set up a new apartheid state of reverse discrimination against disfavored “subhuman” groups of people like Jews, Christians, whites, capitalists, men, conservatives, individualists, and affirmative action, must be ended. Legal and cultural emphasis should only be on all Americans as individuals, and what their intersectional, but personal ownership of natural, self-assigned or societally assigned group affiliations are, is of no legal or discriminatory relevance. Only protected class status for individuals and individuators is what matters, and none should be able to legal discriminate against them in the name of group rights, group identity, collective morality, or group living.

 

What Rufo seeks to legally and bureaucratically restore is the policy of colorblind nondiscrimnation of each American as an individual, not in terms of his group identities. None may legally, morally, or culturallly discriminate or oppress or be discriminated against or oppressed as an individuator or an individual. Individual rights under the law is our standard, and the sovereignty of the individual is our Western singular idea. Protect that and all group members of all kinds will be cared for.

 

Rufo: “That said we shoud celebrate the moment. At the beginning of last year, when we formally launched the ‘abolish DEI’ campaign, it was seen as a fringe, right-wing proposal. Since then, it has achieved significant political victories and become the mainstream position, with widespread support. While momentum is on our side, we should press for maximal demands: abolish DEI in American institutions, terminate the employment of all DEI bureaucrats, and encourage them to find gainful employment elsewhere.

 

Let us hope that this moment is only the beginning of a ‘pink slip revolution.’”