DEI is coming to medical schools. “Increasingly, medical schools and schools of public health are enthusiastically embracing the values of DEI and instituting far-reaching policies to demonstrate their commitments to the cause. … That ideology is exemplified by a research methodology called “public health critical race praxis” (PHCRP)—designed, as the name suggests, to apply critical race theory to the field of public health.
It won’t happen without a struggle. Communism teaches that every thesis creates its antithesis. That’s a fancy way of saying every takeover will be opposed. DEI radicalization automatically radicalizes everyone, divides everyone including those who only yesterday were just going to work.
It’s doubtful that Woke will improve public health. It is certain to increase social polarization. “Revolution is not a dinner party,” Mao famously wrote. Hell no. It’s an eye-gouging, ear-biting, close quarters gravity knife attack. The most transgressive thing on earth. A battle of annihilation. The Communist advice is: to disarm the victim, make him feel guilty for resisting.
If the victim still resists, the Bolshevist is advised to act like the aggrieved party. Depict himself as the long suffering object of a hate campaign. He was only being kind, only righting historical wrongs. I am of course, describing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but it applies to much else.
The reason Marx feared the “lumpen proletariat” so much is not because criminals could never understand “scientific socialism” but because they would immediately recognize it only too well as gang code all dressed up in fancy-Dan academic gobbledygook. The natural affinity of Communism and its derivatives throughout history has always been with crime, not with mercy or prosperity. Because that’s what it is: state organized crime. Inevitably, and this will be true even, or especially true of the DEI form. The crooks will rise to the top.
The essence of DEI and indeed all historical Communism can be expressed in one phrase. Not “can you do the job?” but “who sent you?”. That makes it all right, whatever the competence. And then you go under the anesthesia and it fades to black.