CITY JOURNAL
Trump’s DEI Move Is One to Celebrate
Christopher Rufo
January 21, 2025

Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order abolishing the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucracy in the federal government. The move marks a stunning reversal of fortune from just four years ago, when Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and DEI seemed unstoppable. Following the death of George Floyd, left-wing race activists made a blitz through America’s institutions, rewriting school curricula, altering government policy, and establishing DEI offices in major universities, big-city school districts, and Fortune 100 companies. The Biden administration immediately followed suit, mandating a “whole-of-government equity agenda” that entrenched DEI in the federal government. No more. READ MORE

FREE PRESS Coleman Hughes: The End of DEI Trump is ending racial preferences, and America will be better because of it. Last February, my book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America was published. In it, I argued that color blindness—the principle that people should be treated without regard to their race—should guide American public policy. For this, I was called a “charlatan” by Sunny Hostin on The View.

NATIONAL REVIEW DEI Noah Rothman: Dies with a Whimper Early indications suggest that mainstream Democrats welcome their emancipation from these initiatives.

MINDING THE CAMPUS DEI Is Antisemitic The foundational idea of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is the Marxist theory that all humanity is divided between oppressors and victims. This class conflict can be seen in its economic dimension—bourgeois vs. proletarians—its political dimension—oligarchy vs. democracy or fascist vs. woke—its sexual dimension—men vs. women—its racial dimension—whites vs. blacks, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)—its health dimension—the fully abled vs. the disabled or “otherwise abled”—its sexuality dimension—heterosexuals vs. lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirit, plus many other varieties (LGBTQ2S++)—or its ethnic and religious dimension—Christians and Jews vs. seculars and Muslims.