By Linda Highland Why is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) a central part of all decision making in America today? To understand what something is, we must know its history. The DEI directive, that all government schools, agencies, businesses, and all of society must abide under, first began by the Obama administration, was rescinded by the Trump administration, and was begun again with the Biden administration. The executive order the White House put out advances diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA adds accessibility), however, most just use the term DEI. The White House announcement is lengthy, but here is a brief summation:
THE WHITE HOUSE JUNE 25, 2021 The Executive Order: Establishes a government-wide initiative to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in all parts of the Federal workforce. This initiative will be led by the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget, in close partnership with the White House and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The initiative will reinvigorate the whole-of-government approach to DEIA first established in the Obama-Biden Administration. What are the forces behind this cultural shift to DEI, which is the new form of political correctness or multiculturalism? With the executive order in place, DEI becomes the system under which Cultural Marxism is fully established in America. Cultural Marxism is a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. The promoters of Cultural Marxism are effectively concealing the Marxist nature of their work. “Cultural Marxism began not in the 1960s but in 1919, immediately after World War I. Marxist theory had predicted that in the event of a big European war, the working class all over Europe would rise up to overthrow capitalism and create communism. But when war came in 1914, that did not happen. When it finally did happen in Russia in 1917, workers in other European countries did not support it. What had gone wrong? Independently, two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy, and George Lukacs in Hungary, came to the same answer: Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interest that Communism was impossible in the West until both could be destroyed. In 1919, Lukacs asked, "Who will save us from Western civilization?" That same year, when he became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun government in Hungary, one of Lukacs's first acts was to introduce sex education into Hungary's public schools. He knew that if he could destroy the West's traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying Western culture. In 1923, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as the Frankfurt School, would become the creator of cultural Marxism. To translate Marxism from economic into cultural terms, the members of the Frankfurt School - - Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, to name the most important - - had to contradict Marx on several points. They argued that culture was not just part of what Marx had called society's "superstructure,” but an independent and very important variable. They also said that the working class would not lead a Marxist revolution, because it was becoming part of the middle class, the hated bourgeoisie. Who would? In the 1950s, Marcuse answered the question: a coalition of blacks, students, feminist women, and homosexuals. Fatefully for America, when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Frankfurt School fled - - and reestablished itself in New York City. There, it shifted its focus from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to destroying it in the United States. To do so, it invented "Critical Theory.””(1) What is critical theory? To overthrow capitalism the culture that binds society together in peace and contentment must be divided into many groups working against each other. To criticize every traditional institution, they started by redefining the family and working to bring it down, changed the sexual mores, and wrote a series of "studies in prejudice." Western culture is now prejudiced, and to be divided under labels of "racist," "sexist," "fascist," and “gender confused,” to name a few. Work began to rid us of our mental illness through social justice retraining in our churches, company DEI required training, university DEI training, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum in the government influenced schools. “After World War II ended, most members of the Frankfurt School went back to Germany. But Herbert Marcuse stayed in America. He took the highly abstract works of other Frankfurt School members and repackaged them in ways college students could read and understand. In his book "Eros and Civilization," he argued that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could elevate the pleasure principle over the reality principle and create a society with no work, only play (Marcuse coined the phrase, "Make love, not war"). Marcuse also argued for what he called "liberating tolerance," which he defined as tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and intolerance for any ideas coming from the Right. In the 1960s, Marcuse became the chief "guru" of the New Left, and he injected the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now America's state ideology.” (2) In 1935 the Frankfurt School was named the Institute for Social Research and affiliated itself with Columbia University. From there the cause expanded across America, where today DEI is used to expand Cultural Marxism into most all universities, businesses, and K-12. They have crossed Marxism with Freud’s technique of psychological conditioning to normalize all manner of destructive behaviors, particularly in young children. Teachers’ colleges are heavily influenced and forcing training in DEI, critical theory, transgender support, etc. In 2012 Kansas became the first state in the nation to comprehensively adopt Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for K-12 as the main curriculum, overarching into all other curriculums and a requirement for accreditation. Since the Kansas Board of Education’s adoption, students are underachieving as evidenced by failing scores in math and reading, our true history has been replaced with hatred for our country, classical reading books have been replaced by pornography, gender confusion is encouraged, suicide is the second leading cause of death among our youth, behavioral testing and conditioning data is stored on every student, the curriculum is workforce driven, and environmentalism and social justice is imbedded in the curriculums. Students are becoming separated from their families, their faith, and their freedoms. The UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation answers the question, “What is Social Transformation? Social change can occur incrementally or in broad strokes. Change happens through a variety of processes, including political upheavals and social movements, technological innovations and economic restructuring, responses to environmental degradation and natural disasters, changing values and cultural expressions. Contributing to positive social transformation thus requires inter-disciplinary approaches that value multiple forms of knowledge. All social transformation is a collective process. The Institute for Social Transformation brings the research-based expertise and resources of UC Santa Cruz to this collaboration. We partner with others who are committed to building local and global societies that are rooted in equity, access and opportunity for all people, environmental regeneration and democratic revitalization.” What is the meaning of equity? No longer can we have equal opportunity for all in America. It must be unequally applied to accomplish the goal of antiracism. Ibram X. Kendi, professor of Humanities at Boston University, author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” and associated with the Liberation Theology movement, is considered the leading spokesperson at universities, businesses, and before organizations. His award-winning books are studied in K-12. “One of his famous quotes is, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” He unapologetically advocates for discrimination if it results in equality. He further stated that the greatest threat to the antiracism movement is people being “colorblind,” that is, treating people equally no matter who they are.” (3) Critical Marxist Theory has evolved to be Critical Race Theory. Nikole Hannah-Jones is the chief author and proponent of the critical race theory based 1619 Project used in schools. While schools claim to not be teaching CRT or gender theories, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Teachers Association have multimillion dollar legal funds dedicated to defending teachers who are in trouble with local or state laws that ban the teaching of such theories. The three founders of Black Lives Matter are self-avowed Marxists. “Why would BLM leadership stand for gay and transpeople and stand against the traditional ”western prescribed” family structure? What do these things have to do with black lives? The answer to the above questions is that BLM leadership was strongly influenced by Cultural Marxism and is dedicated to advancing the Marxist agenda. Cultural Marxism is a system of morality that bases your worth and even truth itself, on your identity group. Cultural Marxism defines, dehumanizes, and divides us. Being "Woke" is seeing the world through the lens of a Marxist power dynamic: Oppressed vs. Oppressor. Social Justice is the application of Woke Ideology. It is treating people favorably or less favorably based on their identity group.” (4) The more people have “intersectionality” with the various “oppressed” and “victimized” groups, the more authority they have. The higher your score the more oppressed you are, and you also are not responsible for your actions. Companies’ ratings are scored by a comprehensive measure of a company’s long-term commitment to socially responsible investments (SRI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment standards. For voices to be heard in the public square, the individuals and groups with the highest scores have more rights. The DEI system is forcing its Marxist purpose and power to dehumanize and shame us into compliance. Cancel culture is very pervasive, using powerful rejection of empirical data and academic freedom. You are no better than your worst moment. Merit is judged by our categories, not based upon our thoughts, words, and deeds. We are being divided by our group identity, but God judges us individually. Cultural Marxism presents itself as caring, however this ideology seeks its power from the oppressed, has destroyed many lives, caused the deaths of 100 million, and is evil as it seeks to destroy the culture that binds us all together. Instead, we shall go on caring for one another as all children of a Creator God, who so loved us all that He gave His only Son that through Him we might all have eternal life. The longer we wait to have the courage to speak the truth in love, the more courage we will need to stand against Cultural Marxism. <>< Seek Truth, Goodness, and Beauty Philippians 4: 8-9 References: (1), (2) What Is Cultural Marxism? by William S. Lind, October 25, 2005. (3), (4) Christians in a Woke World, A Call to Courage, Confession and Love, A Bible Study, by Reverend Paul Dare Battle for the American Mind, Uprooting a Century of Miseducation, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin
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