For the past decade, Ottawa politicized research funding: Liberal ministers pledged to embed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into research practices while bringing diversity targets to the sector; they even said outright that federal funds would be used to tinker with the demographics within the research ecosystem.
And now, in 2024, the House of Commons is finally hearing about it. In October, the science committee kicked off a study on the impact of government funding requirements on Canadian research, and, for once, invited a slate of witnesses who don’t bow to DEI dogma.
There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Political operatives, policy wonks, and opposition figures are all planning for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration.
I’ve spoken with many of the people in the president-elect’s orbit who are planning how to staff Cabinet departments and set a new tone on the administration’s first day. Much of our discussion has focused on the approach to DEI, or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle as many DEI programs as possible when he returns to the White House. Yet, there’s one domain where diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just surviving—they’re thriving. The world of video games.
“Call of Duty,” one of the most iconic gaming franchises in history, recently introduced Rossi, its first nonbinary character with they/them pronouns. Some might dismiss this as mere virtue signaling, but it’s part of a far larger agenda.
As mainstream media declines, gaming — a market of 212 million US players —has become the perfect platform for DEI tenets to flourish.
“The survey results point to some pushback on the issue of minority hiring in Canada and the United States,” said Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, in an email.
Still haven’t heard anything from Poilievre on whether he will repeal Canada’s current anti-White hiring legislation.
Now that the largest employer in the United States — Walmart has 2.1 million employees, with 1.6 million of those in the U.S. — is retreating from many of the progressive political commitments it made circa 2020, it just became a heck of a lot easier for smaller fish to follow suit.
Ten years in an America enslaved to race recrimination
Adecade ago, in June 2014, the Atlantic published a cover story with a simple declarative title: “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The piece had taken him two years to write, and the work paid off — with praise sweeping through the ranks of media, prizes from the most prominent elite institutions. The piece was named the “Top Work of Journalism of the Decade” by New York University’s journalism institute. It was hailed as a rare piece of writing which pushed open a cultural dialogue about a controversial subject.
This conversation had been taking place among liberal elites and in all the high places they command — at the Kennedy School and in the New Yorker and National Public Radio — but in August that year it exploded into something more when the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri became a flashpoint in America’s racial reckoning. Coates’s examination of America’s incapacity to truly deal with its history of sin, slavery and persecution went from being the stuff of ethical and intellectual debate to creating the basis for an entire movement — bridging the gap between the high and the low.
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining a growing list of major corporations that have done the same after coming under attack by conservative activists.
The changes, confirmed by Walmart on Monday, are sweeping and include not renewing a five-year commitment for a racial equity centre set up in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd — nor will the company continue to use race and gender as a litmus test to improve diversity when it offers supplier contracts. Walmart said it didn’t have quotas and will not do so going forward.
Donald Trump couldn’t be clearer. He intends to abolish the Department of Education. He stated during the election campaign that “one thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, DC, and sending all education … back to the states”.
Some are wondering why he would bother. Created 45 years ago in the dying days of Jimmy Carter’s administration, the Department is one of the smaller Cabinet-level federal agencies. With a mere four and half thousand employees, abolishing it will hardly drain the Washington swamp.
Government agencies should choose which research projects to fund based on merit, not ideology. But my investigation into U.S. Department of Education grants reveals that administrators prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) when evaluating grant applications. In some cases, reviewers considered the racial make-up of research personnel when assessing applicants’ qualifications.
The Welsh Government has pledged to change the “beliefs and behaviour of the white majority” in Wales.
Labour’s devolved administration vowed to eradicate racism by 2030, and set out an anti-racist action plan which insists that all aspects of public life are made “inclusive”.
To meet the demands of the plan, public bodies have launched policies which include potentially destroying statues of “old white men” that have been deemed offensive, and official reports have advised creating “dog free areas” to boost inclusion.
To counter antisemitism, Canadians must first be able to recognize it
By now, many Canadians are aware of the epidemic of antisemitism spreading across our country, and indeed, around the world. The violent antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam last week – echoing the Kristallnacht pogrom that preceded the Holocaust – is merely the latest terrifying iteration of the explosion of global antisemitism.
Even before the Oct. 7 atrocities unleashed this global tsunami of anti-Jewish hate, here in Canada antisemitism was at the highest levels in recent history.
In the words of the late prime minister Brian Mulroney, “In the wake of the Holocaust … firewalls were thrown up, and the bonfires of antisemitism were for a time reduced to flickering embers. But those firewalls, weakened by the passage of time and willful neglect, have been breached. Cloaked in the armour of free speech, fuelled by hate and stoked by the oxygen of the internet and social media, those fires now burn out of control.”
The elites who brazenly insist we Yobs need to learn how to recognize our antisemitism are really attempting to shift blame for the current sorry state of affairs off their shoulders onto ours.
In Canada’s dingy corridors of power the Zionists trod the same rugs as the anti-Zionists. They belong to the same political parties and the same faculties, work for the same bureaucracies. Whether in government or the academy the worst purveyors of antisemitism are members of their community not ours. It’s their imported Muslim storm troopers who hijack our streets not Mom & Pop Canadian. The only time they pretend to be equals is well never really but occasionally a rubber stamp is required and some pantomime consultation is offered up as democracy. Otherwise we just take up space in their world and they don’t like us at all.
Deborah Lyons was hired as Antisemitism Tsarina by a Liberal party better suited to governing Gaza. That same Liberal Party has spent the last decade calling us racists and Islamophobes for pointing out the madness of their tolerance of a death cult.
Our “thought-leaders” wielded diversity and multiculturalism like clubs to silence dissent as they imported millions from incompatible cultures forever altering Canada’s demographic and not for the better.
I doubt the shiny new replacement Canadians they foisted on us will be very receptive to a lecture on antisemitism given they don’t give a whit for our heritage, culture and values.
But our Grand Poobah’s weren’t through hating us.
They decided it necessary to demonize the white working class with the application of their racist DEI programs. Our children are taught they are racist oppressors because their skin is white. Fine people from all sides of the Israeli-Arab divide have embraced DEI.
Now they have the nerve to offer us a teachable moment about our “antisemitism”.
A recent job posting from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) explicitly states the agency is hiring summer co-op students based on diversity.
CSIS told the Western Standard the DEI policy is in place because the intelligence agency believes it appropriately represents Canada’s population.
A key advisor in the Labour mission to make Wales “anti-racist” has claimed that racism is when “white people hold negative views” of other ethnicities.
The devolved government has pledged to make Wales anti-racist by 2030, and museums are now obliged to present the “right historic narrative” in their displays.
Taxpayer’s money will fund work which ensures the mandated narrative, and cash has gone to the “Re:Collections” project, which takes a leading role in this work by instructing Welsh museums on how to become “anti-racist organisations”.
For the past decade, Ottawa politicized research funding: Liberal ministers pledged to embed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into research practices while bringing diversity targets to the sector; they even said outright that federal funds would be used to tinker with the demographics within the research ecosystem.
Majority of Canadians oppose equity hiring — more than in the U.S., new poll finds
DEI is a terrorist ideology. It does not lead to tolerance or equity but to oppression, hate, and violence.
