The Right Wing’s Spooky New Acronym DEI Betrays an Old Prejudice
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Last week, in response to the Baltimore bridge collapse that claimed the life of six construction workers and shocked the nation, some Republicans claimed the blame lay squarely on “DEI” officials—referencing an acronym for “diversity, equity and inclusion” which has become the latest buzzword in America’s ever-expanding culture war.
On The New Abnormal this week, Dr. Kaila Story, an associate professor in the departments of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies, and the Audre Lorde Endowed Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Louisville, says she believes Republicans across the nation now “recognize the empowerment that comes to marginalized communities when they are presented with robust and three-dimensional scopes of history and our country and education.”