Thoughts on DEI Training

So this week I went through the dreaded DEI training from HR, at your typical big corporate/public institution.

Here are some takeaways.

1. There was no overt hostility to Christians or conservatives in the program.

2. There was no insistence that you pledge personal allegiance to their dogma, besides giving “right” answers to vague and obvious questions.  (“Should you be okay with a racial insult or should you say something?”)

3. There IS an assumption that underprivileged groups are the only ones discriminated against.  This is a huge blind spot in the DEI/Left community right now.  They simply cannot see that their over-reaction to making sure minorities are not oppressed, winds up oppressing the majority.  Reverse discrimination is not a possibility in their minds, but it is obviously real.  If a black woman accuses a white man falsely, and she is assumed to be truthful because of group identity and history, that IS oppression of the white man.  Justice should be blind and impartial.  But what I was taught was all one-sided.  The majority needs to walk on egg shells to make sure they don’t offend any minority.  Now, of course, everyone should be sensitive to everyone.  But everyone also has a responsibility to strive not to take offense at “micro-aggressions.”

4. One spot was especially egregious – the assertion that a minority person offended does not have to accept an apology or any remedial action from the offender.  The implication was, they have the right to simply stay offended and keep the offender in condemnation and contempt.  Yikes.


Overall, this is a mixed bag.  There are naïve and innocent people trying to keep people being nice to each other, after the racism in our past.  And there are more devious elements sneaking in Marxist assumptions, which divides us according to group and class, undermining social cohesion, right when the former group thinks they are bolstering it.