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[There’s also no question that the way organizations deal with it is more likely to hurt than help.](https://archive.ph/74P3p#selection-4435.0-4439.89)

> Meanwhile, advocates for DEI—which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion—have bemoaned the fact that **after decades of diversity training, many university faculties, state agencies and corporations have made little progress on diversifying the workforce.**
> 
> **`Are the right and the left on the same page here—is diversity training a hopeless cause?`**

**Yes, it is. But those that profit from this deranged programming don’t want to admit fail. Despite decades of failure**

[WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/dei-training-hr-business-acd23e8b?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1)

> Research from one of us, Frank Dobbin (with Alexandra Kalev), meanwhile, shows how likely a worker in a U.S. firm is to have a management job, by group. **Women and people of color see increases until the mid-1980s. But progress stalls for Black and Hispanic workers after that**. Men from those groups make no progress between then and 2021, and women make almost no progress. We clearly have more work to do to equalize opportunity.

**Decades of DEI brainwashing haven’t resulted in the change that had been anticipated or sold. Why? I’m going to dare to make a suggestion, a bold suggestion.. the problem can’t be fixed by DEI brainwashing- Because it hasn’t worked for decades. So, unless youre insane (same thing over and over, expecting a different result) it’s time to start looking in another direction..**

> …..as Dobbin and Kalev [have shown](https://archive.ph/o/74P3p/https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674276611), the typica**l DEI training doesn’t educate people about bias and may even do harm.**

> Most training programs fall short on two fronts. First, they use implicit-bias education **to shame trainees for holding stereotypes. Trainers play gotcha**, sending trainees to take an [online test](https://archive.ph/o/74P3p/https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/) co-developed by one of us, Mahzarin Banaji, for education and research. Instead of training people about research that finds that bias is pervasive, **trainers use the test to prove to trainees that they are morally flawed.** People leave feeling guilty for holding biases that conflict with American values.
> 
> **“Gotcha” isn’t going to win people over. The approach is disrespectful**
> 
> The second problem with most trainings is that they seek to solve the problem of bias by i**nvoking the law to scare people about the risk of letting bias go unchecked.** Trainers recount stories of big companies brought to their heels by discrimination suits. **They detail rigid do’s and don’ts for hiring, disciplining and firing people. They require trainees to pass tests on what the law forbids.** All of this makes it clear that the **CEO approved the training solely to avoid litigation.** Trainees leave scared that they will be punished for a simple mistake that may land their company in court.
> 
> Trainings with this one-two punch—you are biased and the law will get you—backfire. **The research shows that this kind of training leads to *reductions* in women and people of color in management.**

[DEI Trainer Mocked Principal in Training Session (using shame) he later killed himself](https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/dei-teacher-mocked-principal-richard-bilkszto-who-later-killed-himself-audio/)

> **An anti-racism instructor was recorded mocking and laughing at a beloved Toronto principal** who challenged her teachings — holding him up as an example of white supremacy “resistance,” according to a report.
> 
> Richard Bilkszto, 60, [later committed suicide](https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/ex-canadian-principal-who-sued-board-for-bullying-during-anti-racism-training-dies-by-suicide/).
> 
> Bilkszto’s July death came after diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, instructor Kike Ojo-Thompson proclaimed Canada was more racist than the United States, a statement the principal pushed back on.
> 
> Ojo-Thompson was hired by the Toronto District School Board in 2021 to provide four DEI training sessions to staff.
> 
> ***“You and your whiteness ( a racist commentary) think that you can tell me what’s really going on with black people,”*** she told Bilkszto, according to a lawsuit filed by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism against the school board.
> 
> In audio [obtained by The Free Press](https://www.thefp.com/p/a-racist-smear-a-tarnished-career-suicide), Ojo-Thompson brought it up again at the following session a week later.
> 
> ***“One of the ways that white supremacy is upheld, protected, reproduced, upkept, defended is through resistance and, like I said … I’m so lucky,”*** she said before laughing.

**She was so lucky she got to make and example out of someone she was framing as a white supremacist.**

> ***“Who would’ve thought my luck would show up so well last week that we got perfect evidence, a wonderful example of resistance that you all got to bear witness to, so we’re going to talk about it, because, I mean, it doesn’t get better than this,***” she continued as others chimed in to back her up.

**Ridicule, Shame. Ostracizing. Denigrating.** **All in the name of DEI training.**