According to recent reports, the Department of Defense and a contracting organization were compelled to drop some of their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts after the Supreme Court issued a decision last year overturning affirmative action. The federal agency had reportedly allocated substantial taxpayer funds to discriminatory career pipelines that prioritized equity.
The Defense Department partnered with the University of Missouri-Kansas City, awarding nearly $800,000 in funds to promote “equity-focused” hiring goals. “Immediately following the summer 2023 Supreme Court decision, the internship criteria was revised in compliance with the ruling,” Stacy Downs, the Director of Strategic Communications for the University of Missouri-Kansas City said.
In 2023, the nation’s highest court issued a bombshell ruling that struck down affirmative action. The conservative majority bench determined that it was unconstitutional to consider race in college admissions. For years, groups like Whites and Asians with higher test scores were being discriminated against compared to minority demographics who could gain easier entrance.
Prior to this ruling, the university explicitly stated how it sought to favor diverse applicants over non-diverse candidates. “To meet our equity-focused programmatic goals, campus internship selection will be equitable such that qualified applicants from underserved and underrepresented cohorts … will be provided first choice,” according to the designers of the career pipeline.
The Daily Wire’s Spencer Lindquist spoke to conservative activist Charlie Kirk about the state of DEI, claiming, “Some researchers describe the presence of ‘denial perspectives’ and ‘diversity defiance,’ or ‘White fatigue,’” the report read, before warning the Defense Department to “exercise caution to guard against” resistance to the leftwing political ideology.
The field reporter continued illustrating the potential consequences of catering to incompetence. “Right now we’re seeing military conflicts increasing across the globe, and this report has found what the DOD has been focusing on. We’ve seen that the Department of Defense has been focusing on expanding and pushing the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda, the DEI agenda,” he said.
Linquist further exposed the DoD, stating, “So what we’ve outlined is four different contracts between the DOD and various different private sector or academic institutions, and we found that the DOD has been preparing to deal with white fatigue against its DEI agenda, and it’s been consulting with a number of different organizations, some of which have been involved in building anti-white and anti-male DEI job pipelines into our Department of Defense.”
The American Tribune previously reported on the landmark Supreme Court decision, where Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race. Many universities have for too long done just the opposite.” He also said the systems in place “lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points, those admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause.”
Watch Lindquist sound off on the Defense Department below:
Featured image credit: Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase, DOD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_Closeup_of_the_Pentagon,_May_11,_2021.jpg
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