<p>The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training forced on criminal investigators with the Internal Revenue Service featured content from a transgender professor who called for the “death of whiteness” in an academic journal article.</p>
<p>The DEI training, <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/irs-woke-training/">obtained</a> by Judicial Watch, was part of a mandatory continuing education program at the IRS, and began with a section by Dafina Lazarus Stewart titled, &#8220;Cultural Inclusion Is About Justice.&#8221; Stewart, a transgender-identifying woman, <a href="https://morgridge.du.edu/about/faculty-directory/d-l-stewart">chairs a department</a> at the University of Denver and has focused much of her academic work on “whiteness,” even calling on other academics to “commit to the death of whiteness.”</p>
<p>Stewart, who focuses on “institutional transformation toward realizing equity and justice,” is the author of an <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09518398.2022.2061630">academic article</a> called “‘Dead Honky’ — Against The Technologies of (White) Violence.” The article <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/07/11/dead-honky-college-education-department-chair-commits-death-whiteness/">calls for</a> Critical Race Theorists to “commit to the death of whiteness,” even arguing that “whiteness is itself a violence” and asking academics to use the “verbal effigy “‘dead honky.’”</p>
<p>The DEI training comes as the Biden administration has leveraged the federal bureaucracy to push far-left ideology on race and gender, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/">signing</a> multiple <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> to institutionalize Critical Race Theory and radical gender ideology in federal agencies.</p>
<p>The portion in the training from Stewart asks questions such as, &#8220;whose culture in the room is under constant threat?” and “whose cultural safety is being sacrificed to allow the dominate [sic] culture to degrade the subordinate culture?”</p>
<p>The answers, based on a reading of Stewart&#8217;s work, likely have to do with the evils of &#8220;whiteness.&#8221; In &#8220;Dead Honky,&#8221; Stewart alleges that “whiteness pretends to be innocent,” but in reality “creates terror and violence.”</p>
<p>“Critical whiteness studies (CWS) in the field of higher education fails to account for … technologies of violence that characterize whiteness and which whiteness employs,” Stewart writes in the journal article. “I theorize technologies of (white) violence as enactments of: (1) malicious white terror; (2) rhetorical white innocence, mobilized through white contempt and white transmission; and, (3) pacifying white concession.”</p>
<p>The article was published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, which has also published an <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/07/08/education-journal-publishes-call-to-eradicate-whiteness-send-it-to-its-grave/">article</a> in which a different professor called for Critical Race Theorists to “do the work of disrupting, dismantling, and eradicating whiteness.” The <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&amp;journalCode=tqse20">journal</a> publishes articles concerning “issues of racism (including whiteness, white racism, and white supremacy), capitalism, and its class structure,” as well as “gender identity, heterosexism, and homophobia.”</p>
<p>Stewart claims in another <a href="https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-01-16_61e44487ad812_HighImpactofWhitenessonTransStudentsinPostsecondaryEducationbyDafinaLazarus-StewartZNicolazzoz-lib.org_.pdf">article</a> that “whiteness as an ideology … reaches beyond race/racism to shape and reproduce other interlocking oppressive systems,” working to “undermine the success of trans students in US postsecondary education.”</p>
<p>The IRS’ <a href="https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/office-of-equity-diversity-inclusion-at-a-glance">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> is led by <a href="https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/todays-irs-organization">Chief Diversity Officer</a> Carrie Holland. While Holland’s salary in her role is <a href="https://govsalaries.com/salaries/FD/internal-revenue-service?employee=carrie+holland">not yet</a> publicly available, her predecessor Valerie Gunter <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/united-states-internal-revenue-service/?F_Name_S=Gunter&amp;Year_S=0">made $200,000</a> a year, <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.html">more than double</a> the median household income to push the DEI agenda.</p>
<p>Gunter confirmed in a <a href="https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ifausa.org/resource/resmgr/newsletter/ifa_diversity_news_issue2.pdf">2021 interview</a> that her role was responsible for “ensuring training” on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as being the principal consultant on all DEI matters at the IRS, including DEI trainings.</p>
<p>“We have a [diversity and inclusion] education program which raises awareness around [equity, diversity, and inclusion], focuses on unconscious bias prevention, and cultural competency,&#8221; Gunter said, adding that the purpose is for managers to identify how DEI &#8220;concepts appear in real world working situations.”</p>
<p>The training for IRS agents is one of the latest examples of the DEI agenda being pushed throughout the federal government.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">revealed</a> that the National Security Association (NSA) created a 34-page DEI glossary that endorsed the tenets of Critical Race Theory and gender ideology, with definitions for terms like “queer theory,” “white fragility,” “settler colonialism,” and “transmisogyny.”</p>
<p>Other agencies in the federal government have funded projects that further gender ideology, with The Daily Wire recently revealing that the Biden administration will pour nearly $1 million of taxpayer funds into an effort to make biology courses more “inclusive” of those who identify as transgender by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-pours-1-million-into-studies-aimed-at-denying-there-are-only-two-genders">denying that there are only two genders</a>.</p>
<p>Biden&#8217;s Health and Human Services Department also funded a study on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatment <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senators-blast-nih-for-3-million-grant-to-expand-medical-transitions-for-minors">to the tune of $3 million</a> despite transgender children’s hospitals admitting that the practice could result in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nih-funds-study-on-puberty-blockers-hormones-on-youth-despite-risk-of-sterilization">permanent sterilization</a>.</p>
<p>But while various agencies within the federal government have aggressively pushed ideological initiatives under President Biden, former Trump administration officials, as well as former President Trump himself, have <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2731416/dislodging-the-real-threat-to-democracy-the-administrative-state/">discussed</a> plans to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">gut the administrative state</a> should he be elected in 2024.</p>
<p>Some are advocating for a policy called Schedule F, which could remove civil service employment protections from unelected bureaucrats like the IRS&#8217;s Holland, empowering the president to fire unelected bureaucrats who may obstruct his policy objectives.</p>

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