I'm certainly not crying over the loss of everything DEI related. A lot of it seems to have more to do with encouraging self-flagellation among white liberals than actually helping marginalized communities. The never ending battle against your own internalized racism/phobias is just Catholic guilt repackaged and secularized by academics who spent too much time on Tumblr during their undergraduate years, and you absolutely cannot convince me that infantilizing language ("safe" and "brave" spaces) is genuinely useful or needed by the folks out there doing the work. It's that liberal hyperfocus on the individual as an individual, rather than the individual as a member of a community, which ultimately leaves it feeling patronizing rather than illuminating.
That being said, I would assume that the goals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion would be the goals of every normal, decent human being. I want diversity in my community organizations, because how the hell else will we know if we're actually representing the community? Of course I want equity, people should have opportunities to pursue their own happiness. Of course I want inclusion, because some of the raddest human beings I've ever met are from wildly different backgrounds than I am. Pluralism is a healthy and beautiful thing.
I guess you can try and make that sound "woke" if you want, but behind all the needlessly academic language from the sociology department are the most basic, foundational ideas about being a good person and living among other people. It's the foundational basis for community.
And that's why traitorous, self-serving filth like Donald Trump and his ilk can't stand them.
