'American universities and schools are riddled with expensive and duplicative DEI bureaucracies. Corporations have hired armies of DEI consultants. Following Biden’s executive orders, the military and federal government also fell in line.' -Simon Hankinson
The State Department not only created the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in Washington, it also assigned full-time officers to run DEI programs in its bureaus and formed DEI committees in its embassies. The justification for all this diversity, equity, and inclusion is that there is “systemic” racial discrimination that needs to be eliminated, but this premise has yet to be proven.
So far, although she insisted that “we must make evidence-informed decisions,” data and evidence were lacking in her testimony. Issa also asked how it was decided to reduce the Foreign Service Officer Test to just one criterion for hiring, not a requirement, as it has been for a century. Abercrombie-Winstanley asserted, “We already have Fellows who skip the [Foreign Service Officer Test], and no one complained. And these people have had successful careers.”
Perhaps realizing that this could be perceived as discriminatory and contrary to law, they haven’t sent out such messages recently.
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