POLAND (VINnews) — Elon Musk slammed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and its prevalence on college campuses on Monday, during a conversation about antisemitism.
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Musk appeared with Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow. The discussion touched upon DEI, and Shapiro compared it and its focus on race-based solutions to Nazi conspiracies about Jews.
“If you read Nazi literature, the Nazis literally promoted the idea that the Jews were, of course, this small caste of people who were running all major industries, who were standing behind all world power,” Shapiro said. “That theory of power and group identity is really ugly, and we see echoes of it today.”
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion…you should always always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book.”— @elonmusk and @benshapiro discuss the dangers of DEI. pic.twitter.com/Si43BkLiry
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 22, 2024
DEI “suggests that all of society is a vast pyramid of group identity, and at the very top are the people who are successful, and that those people are exploiting everybody else. And we can tell who is successful by their group identity; not by their level of success, their group identity. It matches up incredibly, almost a Venn diagram with the circle of anti-Semitism,” Shapiro said.
Musk responded, “You should always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book.”
“What it really means is discrimination on the basis of race… And it’s against merit, and, thus, I think is fundamentally anti-Semitic,” Musk said.
“We really need to stop this principle that the nominally weaker party is always right. This is simply not true,” Musk added. “If some of those weaker groups want to annihilate you, that does not make them good.”
“I’m a big believer in moral absolutism, not moral relativism. There is good and bad in the absolute, and you judge any group or individual against absolute moral standards, not whether they’re the so-called oppressed or oppressor,” Musk said.
“You would think,” Shapiro responded, “but the pseudo-sophisticates on college campuses seem to think differently.” “We need to return to what things mostly were, which is a focus on merit,” Musk said. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a man, woman, what race you are, what beliefs you have. What matters is how good are you at your job, or what are your skills.”
“You could be a three-legged green Martian, wears a kimono, drinks yak’s milk. Who cares? It doesn’t matter. What matters is, how good is your work? That’s it,” Musk added.
Actually Muskala and his “X” ismore antisemitic that “DEI” could ever be. That’s his new boogeyman? And Shapiro holds his hentala? Fying pan calling the shissel schvartz.
I have actually attended DEI workshops and have never observed any anti-Semitism. At the most recent one attended, the African American facilitator used the lack of accomodation for religious holidays as the very first example of an inclusion failure by organizations that should be corrected. Inclusion is the I in DEI.