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<\/a>While this is a nationwide phenomenon<\/strong> it has tentacles into even out of the way places such as Susquehanna County, PA This is evident in the controversy with the library system, which has membership and affiliations with the DEI obsessed Pennsylvania Library Association and the American Library Association, organizations for whom libraries, books, etc are simply a basis for activism, with dreams of leading to the imposition of their elite-controlled DEI Utopia. From the PLA opening page banner: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: <\/em><\/strong>\u201cThe Pennsylvania Library Association will actively and intentionally pursue, promote and champion equity, diversity, and inclusion within the organization and within the profession so that our association, libraries, librarians, and library staff will all thrive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Just fading away in the national news cycle<\/strong> are the vicissitudes of Claudine Gay, the hapless and now former president of Harvard University. She became Harvard\u2019s president on July 1st<\/sup> of this past year with some fanfare because she was the first black woman to assume that ostensibly distinguished role. Several months into her presidency she in fact distinguished herself during a Congressional hearing over anti-Semitism, which was running rampant on her campus, and included calls for genocide of Jews. She made the impressive claim that demands to slaughter Jews were acceptable as long as they weren\u2019t put into action, an idea she characterized as \u201ccontext.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While it appeared she would survive<\/strong> the succor she gave the \u201cfrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\u201d and kill the Jews crowd, it came to light that during her career as a scholar (being generous) she had a tendency to, lets say, borrow words and ideas from others without attribution; in the world of academia this has traditionally been unacceptable and career ending, a practice called plagiarism. She weathered the storm initially, but in the end even accusations that she was a victim of racism didn\u2019t save her, so she stepped down from her $900,000 a year position as president to revert to a $900,000 a year position as a faculty member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Privileged white people and elites of all skin colors<\/strong> are so enamored with DEI that they cannot comprehend there could be a downside: they are too busy basking in the glow of power, profit, and feeling fabulous about themselves to question anything, like a Catholic bishop during the Inquisition. If \u201cequity\u201d means not arresting and not prosecuting violent criminals because they are black, so be it. If they continue to terrorize their own communities, which is generally the case, that\u2019s the price the DEI crowd are willing for others to pay. If an incompetent or otherwise unqualified person is is hired primarily, if not solely, on the basis of skin color, sex, or because he\u2019s a hairy guy who sashays around in stunning dresses and high heels (in the case of former Biden administration official Sam Brinton, stolen attire), it\u2019s cool. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are an incompetent medical practitioner, for example, as long as there is the appearance of \u201cinclusivity;\u201d those left in the wake of malpractice did their part to advance DEI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometime the pernicious results of DEI are obvious<\/strong>, as in the explosion of violent crime following the death of George Floyd 3 \u00bd years ago. Sometimes they are more insidious, as in the case of Claudine Gay, a marginal scholar who was promoted to the (formerly) prestigious position of president of Harvard, a position well beyond her capabilities and correctly deemed a \u201cdiversity hire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2002-2003 I was the volunteer medical director<\/strong> (PA) of a remote clinic in Kenya. While there I befriended a young man just finishing high school, and became somewhat of a surrogate father to him. We kept in touch over the years, and in 2017 I reconnected with him during a brief return to East Africa. It was evident this was a gentleman with enormous potential, and my wife and I decided to sponsor him to attend college in the US. He completed two associate degrees and is just now entering his final semester to obtain a BS in Aviation Maintenance Science with a concentration in Cybertechnology and Security. He has excelled in every endeavor: graduating Summa Cum Laude, passing a rigorous FAA licensing exam, participating in a year-long work experience with an airline in which he was asked to become a supervisor (they didn\u2019t fully realize his visa allowed employment for only one year). He exudes competence, dedication, hard work, responsibility, dignity, and decency, but I fear that because of DEI and buffoons such as Claudine Gay he, as a very dark-skinned black man (who happens to speak three languages), will forever be discounted as just another \u201cdiversity hire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n DEI offers lots of power, money<\/strong>, and ego-enhancement to the few- the privileged elite- but it diminishes everyone else, especially<\/em> people with other than white skin. Curiously, when those who control the cultural agenda go looking for \u201cinclusivity,\u201d they limit their search to the bottom of the respective barrels. For some reason they seem oblivious to the fact that, in regards to race for example, there are plenty \u201cpeople of color\u201d who are fully competent and qualified for whatever position. So why do they choose selfish and greedy clowns and fools who cannot stand up to scrutiny and inevitably fall back on \u201cracism\u201d when they fail? I suspect they are threatened by competency, and want the mirage of superficial- and meaningless- \u201cdiversity\u201d without fear of being challenged, i.e. a way to appear wonderful while still \u201ckeeping the black man down.\u201d Unfortunately, this thesis actually makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Reid Fitzsimons \u201cDiversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)\u201d is a cultural fad that is mostly a thing of the elite, especially but not exclusively of the progressive and privileged white elite. 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