Diversity Is a Lie

Diversity is not diversity. It is an act of moral and political exploitation.

Written by Bo Winegard.

Although wokism has retreated since the election of Donald Trump, mainstream discourse about diversity and racism remains contradictory. On the one hand, it contends that whites are pervasively though often unconsciously prejudiced and that, like bigoted spiders, they mindlessly spin racist norms, laws, and institutions, even when free from explicit racial antipathy. On the other, it exalts diversity as the noblest of noble goods, a desideratum so vital that it is thought to justify massive state intervention. Those who advocate the putative (Orwellian) principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion are more restrained than they were in 2022, but the language of diversity (often decoupled from DEI, which has become too divisive) still pervades public discourse in the United States and the West more broadly.

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But if whites are depicted as so deeply, so thoroughly, so unconsciously racist that they construct racist institutions even while professing a belief in equality, and if this racism stultifies, traumatizes, and even kills blacks and other people of color, why is diversity still held up as a noble good? Why would separatism not be better so that blacks could avoid the deleterious influence of whites and white institutions?