University of Florida eliminates all DEI positions in accordance with new law signed by Ron DeSantis



The University of Florida is the first college to fire all diversity, equity, and inclusion employees in accordance with a new law signed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The university had previously dedicated $5 million to support DEI implementation but announced Friday that it would reroute that money to a faculty recruitment fund.

DeSantis celebrated the announcement from his official social media account.

"DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities. I’m glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit," he tweeted.

State Democrats, on the other hand, were outraged and furious.

“I am stunned but not surprised at the elimination of DEI staff at University of Florida, my Alma Matter,” said state Rep. Yvonne Hinson. “The culture wars engaged in the Republican dominated Florida House of Representatives will continue until Floridians have had enough and develop the will and determination to flip the majority in the Florida House.”

“When will we stop with these made up culture wars that are literally costing people their livelihoods," responded Rep. Dianne Hart. "In an effort to prevent ‘indoctrination’ in our classrooms, we have in turn created an education system that is built off lies, falsehoods, and deceptive history. We can’t call ourselves the ‘free State of Florida’ when children aren’t free to learn the truth of their history, and see the diversity of humanity."

In July, a report accused the University of Florida of underreporting its DEI initiatives to conceal the depth of its support of radicalism on campus.

That same month, DEI experts and activists bemoaned the dwindling interest and investment into their political agenda by companies and corporations.

“2020 was the year that we were definitely making strides — but there wasn’t any strategy, there wasn’t any plan,” said business strategist Kim Crayton at the time.

One estimate found that DEI investment had skyrocketed to as much as $3.5 billion in 2020.

"It was a PR moment — corporate blackface," she added. "I told people at the time: ‘White guilt isn’t going to last.’”

Among those companies accused of backing off of their support for DEI were Disney, Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Thousands of diversity and equity officers have been laid off, and left-wing activists are panicking, WSJ reports



Left-wing activists are panicking as companies and corporations are choosing to lower their commitment to diversity and equity, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The report said that thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off in the last year after many companies had rushed to prove that they were implementing diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

“There’s a combination of grief, being very tired, and being, in some cases, overwhelmed,” said Miriam Warren, a diversity officer at Yelp.

The report cites "frequent social-media firestorms" to explain why some companies are pivoting away from hiring DEI officers.

Those may include the Bud Light debacle over trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney and the backlash against Target selling LGBTQ-themed products by a designer who promotes satanism and violence.

According to one estimate, the DEI industry ballooned to $3.4 billion in 2020. Since then, chief diversity officers are experiencing 40% higher turnover as compared to other positions, according to one study.

A separate study found that searches of chief diversity officer have dropped by 75% over the last year. One HR hiring expert said it was the lowest demand he had seen in 30 years.

“They’re telling us, the only way I want to go into another role with DEI is if it includes something else," explained Jason Hanold.

The WSJ report mirrored complaints from LGBTQ activists that companies weren't calling on them during this year's Pride Month like they were in previous years. One activist whined that the usefulness of "white guilt" had run out at these companies.

Critics of DEI, like journalist Cristopher Rufo, praised the development reported in the WSJ.

"We are crushing the DEI industry," tweeted Rufo in part. "But this is just the beginning: we will not stop until DEI is abolished from American life."

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Equity activists are outraged that 'white guilt' has run out after Disney, Netflix, and other companies force out DEI chiefs



Racial equity activists are outraged after several large companies dropped their diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants in response to conservative backlash and criticism.

The outrage was documented in a report from the Los Angeles Times that noted the exits of DEI experts at Disney, Netflix, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Warner Bros. Discovery.

“I wake up every day trying not to be a cynic, but this is frightening,” said Vic Bulluck of the NAACP Hollywood bureau. “Hollywood seems to be sending a message that these programs that were designed to give more access to African Americans are no longer needed.”

The report noted that all of the DEI chiefs dismissed were black women.

Business strategist Kim Crayton claimed that she predicted that the corporate support of DEI programs would be short-lived.

“2020 was the year that we were definitely making strides — but there wasn’t any strategy, there wasn’t any plan,” she explained.

“It was a PR moment — corporate blackface," she added. "I told people at the time: ‘White guilt isn’t going to last.’”

Disney, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Discovery told the Los Angeles Times that these criticisms were inaccurate and that they were still committed to the cause of equity and diversity.

Crayton went on to say claim that DEI consultants were too busy having to deal with white people's feelings to make any lasting change about inequity.

“If you don’t have the autonomy, the resources or the authority to make changes, it won’t work,” she said. “Many of these women spend the majority of their time navigating white people’s feelings — and you cannot do the work if you have to do that.”

Former NBCUniversal diversity chair Paula Madison put it another way.

“In many instances, the person in those roles has no power,” Madison explained. “These DEI officers are just treading water — and sometimes they are drowning. These things were never designed to be successful.”

The exasperation of DEI proponents was mirrored by that of LGBTQ activists who complained that corporations had been backing off from their support of the far-left movement during the very lucrative Pride Month.

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