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DEI is headed for the dumpster. DEI must die.
So-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are badly disguised racial preferences. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 ruled affirmative action, a euphemism for racial preferences, unconstitutional in college admissions.
Colleges and businesses across the country have been second-guessing DEI policies and modifying or dismantling them. Southwest Airlines is one of the corporations that will stop discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of race and sex.
America First Legal (AFL) in January filed a complaint against Southwest Airlines with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for promoting DEI. AFL asked the agency to investigate the airlines’ hiring and promoting practices. From AFL (emphasis added):
On December 2, 2024, OFCCP held an informal compliance conference with Southwest Airlines Co. in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §60-1.24(c)(2). In other words, OFCCP’s investigation indicated a violation of the equal opportunity clause, and it sought to resolve the matter by holding a compliance conference with Southwest.
After the conference, Southwest Airlines agreed to end racial and sex-based discrimination in hiring and promoting.
“On your next flight, would you rather be told that your pilot checks the right DEI boxes or that he was hired because he was the best of all competing candidates?” said Will Scolinos, an AFL lawyer. “Americans have had enough of corporations’ overt discrimination under the guise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”
Scolinos added that discriminating based on immutable characteristics like race or sex is always wrong.
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Since the implementation of affirmative action more than a half-century ago, most persons aware of the program knew early on that colleges and professional corporations really didn’t have their heart in it. The government can’t make people do things that they inherently disagree with. It might be better after all that we start over at square one.