The Harrowing Overlaps Between DEI and Nazism
A shock report this month by the Network Contagion Research Institute found evidence of links between people who have had diversity training and a tendency towards authoritarianism.
They say history repeats itself.
In a world where the word ‘Nazi’ and ‘Fascist’ are thrown around as vitriolic oral confetti, you would think that the propensity to relive the ghoulish, murderous authoritarianism of the last century was at level zero, robustly safeguarded against through constant, forboding reference.
Yet, many of us have felt the chill of realisation that the very people hurling accusations of Nazism at otherwise innocent non-conformists act like the oppressors themselves. The neo-fascists, increasingly boundless in their audacity and hate.
An important study this month has shown conclusively that this uncomfortable irony is in fact true.
So-called Diversity training actually increases authoritarian tendencies rather than diminish them, and that the target of the attack, far from being minority communities, are those believed to have innate privilege.
Research published this month by the Network Contagion Research Institute shows that not only has the stated intent of DEI training not been realised, it has actually backfired. The clue to the findings is written boldly in the very title of the paper:
INSTRUCTING ANIMOSITY: HOW DEI PEDAGOGY PRODUCES THE HOSTILE ATTRIBUTION BIAS
Far from getting everyone to see the world through a lens of equality, many of the schemes forced onto employees led to perceptions of unfairness, increasing, rather than reducing, racial resentment.
And even more alarmingly, the chilling findings reveal that many, particularly those with pre-existing Left Wing sentiments, can develop a honking stench of potentially violent authoritarianism.
Who would have thought that 6 decades after Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream” speech, delivered on August 28th 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the racism he so passionately fought against would have been granted a second lease of life?
It has been beatified and baked in to Identitarian politics forcing every single life event to be regarded through the prism of race. Far from his vision that his “four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character” they will instead be regarded primarily as black, as the single most important and defining thing about them. They will be expected to vote a certain way, because of their melanin, they will be regarded as so inherently disadvantaged due to their ethnicity that a multitude of schemes and programmes will be set up that eclipses any appreciation of natural ability or worth in a meritocratic system by instead judging them entirely by their colour.
Far from heeding King’s words of “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred,” that cup runneth over. The multi-billion dollar industry of DEI - Diversity, Equality and Inclusion - has become so exaggerated and assertive, greedy and boundless, that what we are left with in the West is a seething, foam flecked backlash of distrust and resentment.
According to LinkedIn, the number of employees with chief diversity and inclusion officer titles grew by 168.9% from 2019 to 2022. The research also found that the UK employs almost twice as many D&I workers (per 10,000 employees) as any other country.
Another estimate based on Freedom of Information Requests to 6,000 public authorities calculated that at least 10,000 public diversity posts existed in Britain, at a cost of over half a million per year to the taxpayer.
So it’s about time someone analysed the effect of all this rabid investment. Get ready to be alarmed.