The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors (BOG) announced Wednesday that it plans to cut millions of dollars from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
The Board announced the decision at a Committee on University Governance meeting, The Daily Tar Heel <a href="https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/09/university-bog-dei-breaking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. UNC has already worked since May to eliminate DEI jobs, including 20 positions and 27 that were “realign[ed].”
Andrew Tripp, Senior Vice President and General Counsel in the Office of Legal Affairs at the BOG, announced at the meeting that $5.3 million would be redirected away from DEI initiatives.
“As we all know, UNC Chapel Hill typifies our larger campuses&#8217; responses,” Tripp said, according to the Tar Heel. “It&#8217;s required. Its compliance is required, eliminating dozens of positions.”
An “Equality Within the University of North Carolina” report that was signed by University Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens at the end of July detailed seven DEI positions that were eliminated in the school’s central administration. These eliminations included the Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, along with six others.
Twelve positions were also eliminated from various schools, including the School of Education, Medicine, and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, among others. Entire DEI offices were eliminated from other schools, including the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the School of Medicine, and the School of Pharmacy. Other positions were realigned, including the College of Arts and Sciences’ Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, who is now the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development.
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Further, the report said, “centers that had DEI committees or workgroups have confirmed that they either no longer meet, have been formally ended, or have transitioned to other work.”
UNC-Chapel Hill had the most eliminated DEI positions, with UNC-Charlotte following with 9 positions eliminated. In total, the UNC system eliminated 59 positions and realigned 131 others, with $16 million redirected to other programs and more than $17 million saved.
In May, UNC’s board of trustees voted to gut funding for DEI and divert the money to campus police, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unc-chapel-hill-votes-to-gut-dei-department-give-money-to-campus-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
At that time, the board <a href="https://www.wunc.org/education/2024-05-13/dei-unc-chapel-hill-trustees-vote-redirect-funding-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted unanimously</a> to redirect $2.3 million from DEI initiatives toward campus safety and police. The aforementioned report outlined what has happened since that vote.
“I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” budget committee vice chairman Marty Kotis said during the vote. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
“It’s important to consider the needs of all 30,000 students, not just the 100 or so that may want to disrupt the university’s operations,” Kotis added. “It takes away resources for others.”

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Halle Berry</a> complained about the fact that no <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei">black woman</a> has won the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Academy Award</a> for Best Actress since she did for “Monster’s Ball” in 2002.
“I’m still eternally miffed that no black woman has come behind me for that best actress Oscar, I’m continually saddened by that year after year,” the 58-year-old actress <a href="https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/halle-berry-interview-2024/">said</a> in an interview with Marie Claire published Tuesday. “And it’s certainly not because there has been nobody deserving.”
Berry mentioned Andra Day in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” and Viola Davis in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” as two candidates she thinks deserved the honor.
“Would I rather have awards or a kickass, robust, soaring career as a black woman? I’d take the kickass, soaring career over an award any day,” she added.
The “Catwoman” actress spoke on this topic before, telling <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/halle-berry-oscar-win-diversity-1234762649/">Variety</a> in 2020 how upset she was over it.
“It’s one of my biggest heartbreaks,” Berry said at the time. “The morning after, I thought, ‘Wow, I was chosen to open a door.’ And then, to have no one … I question, ‘Was that an important moment, or was it just an important moment for me?’ I wanted to believe it was so much bigger than me. It felt so much bigger than me, mainly because I knew others should have been there before me and they weren’t.”
“Just because I won an award doesn’t mean that, magically, the next day, there was a place for me,” she went on. “I was just continuing to forge a way out of no way.”
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The Academy Awards previously announced that beginning in 2024, a film will only qualify for Best Picture if it meets specific diversity criteria in two of four diversity areas. The Academy’s new guidelines cover “on-screen representation, themes and narratives” and “creative leadership and project team,” as well as so-called industry access opportunities and audience development diversity, as The Daily Wire originally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-daily-wire-poll-most-americans-oppose-oscars-diversity-requirements">reported</a>.
A poll conducted by The Daily Wire found that the majority of respondents (63%) believe that “films should solely be judged on their artistic merits,” while only 24% of respondents said that “diversity should be a significant factor” in a film’s nomination.

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A national security nonprofit is suing to obtain information about the State Department’s hiring of far-left activist Zakiya Carr Johnson as Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.
The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), “a nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the safety and security of the American people,” <a href="https://advancing-america.org/">filed</a> the lawsuit after first submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department, requesting communications related to Johnson’s hiring.
&#8220;The hiring of Zakiya Carr Johnson as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the State Department deserves maximum transparency due to Ms. Johnson&#8217;s past extreme progressive advocacy and repugnant comments regarding America being a systemically racist country,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The Center to Advance Security in America filed a FOIA request for communications and records related to her hiring, and after waiting over 140 days, we were forced to file this lawsuit.&#8221;
The request, which was sent on April 23rd, sought communications between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other officials concerning Johnson’s hiring. Now, the suit from CASA seeks to compel the State Department to produce all non-exempt records in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act.
“To date, CASA has received neither a further response nor any other further communication from DOS,” the suit explains. “Through DOS’s failure to make a determination within the time period required by law, CASA has constructively exhausted its administrative remedies and seeks immediate judicial review.”
Johnson&#8217;s hiring sparked uproar as radical statements from her past began to resurface. Johnson embraced far-left Critical Race Theory and claimed that American society is “often riddled with racism, patriarchy and exclusion,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-depts-new-dei-official-said-americas-institutions-are-riddled-with-racism-based-on-a-failed-historical-model">reported</a> in April.
“These are chinks in the armor of traditional leadership that refuse to reconcile with a colonizing past, or recognize that time has run out for experimentation and tweaking of a failed historic model,” Johnson stated in a now-deleted article, also adding, “we cannot have equity without dismantling structural racism, patriarchy and heterosexism.”
Johnson is the <a href="https://fairsharewl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/FairShare_Action_Paper_en.pdf">co-author of a guide</a> called “Feminist Leaders for Feminist Goals,&#8221; a how-to playbook for feminists to usurp “a culture of male and/or white dominance” in organizations.
Johnson&#8217;s hiring is part of a wide-reaching plan to embed the far-left diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda throughout the State Department. The State Department has spent at least $77 million taxpayer dollars on DEI efforts in just two years, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">exclusively reported</a> in March. The department has also pushed transgenderism across the globe, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">employing former activist</a> Jessica Stern as its “Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons.” Stern has visited at least 22 countries across all six habitable continents, even attending a “transgender visibility” march in Brazil.
Former president Donald Trump has said he would gut the federal bureaucracy through executive orders if elected.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”

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Former sitcom star Roseanne Barr sat down to discuss Matt Walsh’s upcoming documentary, “Am I Racist?” 
The actress had nothing but praise for the film and for Walsh’s approach, which was to use humor to help people “step out of the tiny box&#8221; they’d been in and the brainwashing constantly happening in the media and corporate environments when it comes to DEI. Barr said the key to resonating with the intended audience is by telling an entertaining yet important story, which is not easy to achieve. But “Am I Racist?” does exactly this.
Walsh agreed that while there’s a lot of value in his daily podcast, there are many people you can’t reach through those avenues. This film was made to have broad appeal to a larger audience. Barr agreed, saying he was doing “the right thing by making a funny movie.”
“That’s really the way to reach people, by doing something funny that just happens to be exposing a grift,” she said.
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Walsh also explained how the film wasn’t meant to “put the message before the story.” Instead, he sought to create something entertaining that also packed a powerful message about the extreme grifting in the DEI industry. 
“The story really matters, we have to put that first,” Walsh told Barr.
Walsh described one part of the film when he visited a biker bar in the South and also went to an impoverished area in New Orleans. In both places, he encountered people unfamiliar with the mainstream DEI language. 
“Of course, we didn’t know how these conversations were going to go. But we kind of suspected that we would hear really similar things from both of these groups. Even though we’re told by the media that these groups hate each other. What we found is that we heard exactly the same thing… almost the exact same words.”
Walsh went on to say that no one in either of those environments was very concerned with racial identities.
“Because you were talking to the working class, you weren’t talking to the operatives that graduated brainwashed from college,” Barr observed. “You know, the privileged.” 
Walsh also mentioned how those who don’t have corporate jobs aren’t influenced by the “DEI brainwashing” happening there. 
“The default position is that [race is] not a big deal,” Walsh said.
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&#8220;The Left is now making the mistake that Christian films have made for a long time, where they&#8217;re putting the message before the story.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> talks with <a href="https://twitter.com/therealroseanne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@therealroseanne</a> about how &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221; brings back entertainment that&#8217;s actually entertaining. <a href="https://t.co/Izf2N8KN0V">pic.twitter.com/Izf2N8KN0V</a>
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The duo talked about one of Walsh’s most-asked questions from fans after making this film and his 2022 smash hit “What is a Woman?” which had to do with keeping a straight face during interviews. He said it might seem funny in retrospect, but actually dealing with grifters who were immersed in the lie was more frustrating than funny. 
“The challenge isn’t not laughing, it’s not screaming at them,” he told Barr. 
Later in the conversation, Walsh spoke with Barr about how theaters surprisingly accepted the film&#8217;s content, but they cautioned that it would be harder to sell audiences on a documentary-style project. The Daily Wire host said he was happy to report that promising ticket presales allowed them to expand the release to double the theaters they originally had.
Finally, the “Roseanne” star gave her thoughts on the project. “I’m glad you made the movie,” she told Walsh. “You were game to get a laugh, and it was funny.” 
Barr compared Walsh’s tactics to those of Michael Moore and Sacha Baron Cohen in terms of style and talent, even if they have different messages. 
“I’m glad you’re doing it. I’m glad you’re funny. I’m glad God gave you the gift of humor,” she added. “I think you made a good film; I hope you’ll make more.” 
“Am I Racist?” will hit theaters on September 13. Fans can purchase tickets to a showing near them at <a href="http://amiracist.com/">amiracist.com</a>.

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University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines threatened to call the police on a Jewish woman for emailing criticism of the school’s response to anti-Semitism, the same week he said freedom of speech meant he couldn&#8217;t stop an anti-Israel group from reserving a campus quad on the anniversary of Hamas&#8217;s October 7 attack, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
The emails show that on August 24, Pines emailed the woman — the mother of a student, who had never emailed the president — asking her to halt all communications with members of the school&#8217;s anti-Semitism task force, lest he &#8220;pursu[e] further action, including, without limitation, seeking the assistance of our University of Maryland Police Department.&#8221;
On August 28, Pines replied to another Maryland resident who expressed concern about the university granting Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) a reservation to take over nine acres in the center of campus for an October 7 event, similar to one held on the second day of school honoring Palestinian &#8220;martyrs.&#8221; In the email, Pines defended the group, saying it “simply wanted to exercise their first amendment and free speech right to honor those Palestinian lives that have been lost as a result of this conflict.&#8221;
Pines in the email echoed SJP&#8217;s false claim that &#8220;approximately 150,000 lives [have been] lost during this conflict.” Even Hamas estimates the total number killed to be 40,000.
A day after Pines defended SJP&#8217;s planned event, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-maryland-will-let-anti-israel-group-hold-oct-7-rally">reported</a> that the president had approved the event over the objections of the campus rabbi, who conveyed the concerns of Jewish parents and students to Pines. On September 1, the University System of Maryland <a href="https://www.usmd.edu/newsroom/news/2427">intervened</a>, prohibiting all student groups from hosting events on October 7.
The same day, Pines sent an <a href="https://president.umd.edu/articles/remembering-the-one-year-anniversary-of-october-7-2023">email</a> to the university community suggesting the planned SJP event was cancelled to ensure the &#8220;safety&#8221; of the protesters, even though he acknowledged that &#8220;UMPD has assured me that there is no immediate or active threat to prompt this assessment.&#8221; His email did not describe why the October 7 date was significant except to say that it was the “upcoming one-year anniversary of October 7, 2023.”
The University of Maryland was one of several American schools whose campuses were wracked with anti-Semitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that left more than 1,200 dead. In response, Pines announce the creation of a task force dedicated to fighting both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia — though there was no evidence of rampant Islamophobia on campus. The task force included a number of anti-Israel voices, including co-chair Shibley Telhami, who has accused Israelis of poisoning Arabs’ drinking water and smashing children&#8217;s toys, among other claims.
Pines&#8217;s task force also excluded some pro-Israel voices who were nominated, such as Gilad Chen, a Jewish professor, and Jeffrey Herf, a Holocaust expert.
All of this led one Jewish mother of a University of Maryland student to reach out to the task force, pressing it for information about its actions and raising concerns about its composition and asking where the boundaries of acceptable anti-Israel activity would be drawn. After becoming frustrated by a lack of information, she eventually called attention to Telhami&#8217;s social media posts and said &#8220;It’s LUDICROUS that someone who holds hateful views towards Israel (only democracy in the Middle East) and Jews is Chair of a Task Force on antisemitism!!!!  Would you have a KKK member on this Taskforce?&#8221;
The Daily Wire is withholding the names of the parent, and the other Maryland resident who contacted Pines. The parent told The Daily Wire that &#8220;the hypocrisy of it all is shocking,” and that Pines&#8217;s missive only proved the “double standard” that she and other Jewish community members pressed him about.
“There was nothing [harmful in my emails], it was literally begging for accountability,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You established a task force and announced it, and now we’re just asking who’s on it, what’s it doing and when is it being rolled out?”
Pines, who did not respond to a request for comment, did not address the parent&#8217;s questions. Rather, he went on the attack, the emails show.
“It has come to my attention that you have recently sent several emails to certain members of our leadership team and faculty, as well as to the co-chairs of the UMD Joint Presidential-University Senate Task Force on Antisemitism and Islamophobia,&#8221; Pines wrote. &#8220;It is our view that those communications contain INAPPROPRIATE remarks and UNFOUNDED accusations, and otherwise reflect unacceptable behavior by any member of our community.&#8221;
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“Immediately cease and refrain from sending any further communications to any members of the Task Force in connection with their work,&#8221; Pines added. Please know that should you fail to comply with this request, we will consider pursuing further action, including, without limitation, seeking the assistance of our University of Maryland Police Department (UMPD).&#8221;
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Meanwhile, Pines&#8217;s email to the other resident&#8211;which he also fired off after that resident suggested that Pines, who is black, would have a different standard for speech aimed at blacks compared to speech aimed at Jews&#8211; seemed to contain &#8220;inaccurate&#8221; claims of its own.
Pines claimed that SJP “have both publicly and on social media condemned the horrific attack by Hamas that happened last fall on October 7, 2024 [sic].”
The Daily Wire reviewed the University of Maryland SJP chapter&#8217;s Instagram posts dating back to the terrorist attack and found none condemning Hamas or the terrorist attack. The group posted nothing on October 7, and the next day posted a “demand” that the university boycott and divest from Israel. It subsequently called the Israeli army “war criminals” using a “charade of self-defense” and demanded “Hands off Rahah Now,” referring to the location where Hamas was keeping an American hostage, who it later killed.
In a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9yDEB3PJv6/?img_index=5">“statement of views,”</a> the SJP chapter said in July that “UMD SJP unequivocally states that the Zionist state of Israel has no right to exist,” and that Palestinians have “the right to resist.&#8221;
“SJP unequivocally stands by international law as it outlaws the indiscriminate killing of civilians and establishes the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_WntvnPe2D/?img_index=5">right of Palestinians to carry out armed struggle</a>,” the group wrote this week on Instagram.
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“UMD SJP will NOT back down to threat by Zionists. We will remain committed to advocating for Palestine and we will still find ways to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_bTHNQvMM3/?igsh=Zzh4d2gzMWJqb3pr&amp;img_index=5">honor the martyrs</a> of this genocide and mark one year of resistance! WE WILL NOT STOP,” it added soon after.
“We honor the lives of all martyrs of this genocide,” it said, saying “over 186,000 Palestinians [sic] have been brutally murdered by the Zionist entity within the past year.”

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Conservative commentator and podcast host Megyn Kelly had nothing but rave reviews for the upcoming Daily Wire documentary, “Am I Racist?” 
Kelly sat down with creator and Daily Wire host Matt Walsh to discuss what happened behind the scenes, including how Walsh was able to go undercover among the DEI crowd, including “White Fragility” author Robin D’Angelo.
“Everyone must see,” Kelly said. 
“If you watch this movie for no other reason, watch it to see the scene where Matt Walsh, in his man bun, sits down with Robin D’Angelo,” she added. “I died. Honestly, there were so many great moments in there, again I’ll keep them a secret, but one of my favorites was when the issue of what is mansplaining… and let’s just say you’ll laugh just as hard as Doug and I did when you get to that scene.”
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Walsh is not in disguise at the beginning of the film, but after being recognized, he goes semi-incognito and dons a tweed jacket, skinny jeans, and a man bun, and carries a man bag equipped with a copy of Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist.”
Even with the change in fashion, Walsh still looked like himself. Kelly marveled that he was able to gain access to people like D’Angelo. The best-selling author is currently embattled in a scandal after being <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/robin-diangelo-plagiarized-minority-scholars-complaint-alleges/">accused</a> of plagiarism by several scholars, including minorities, in her 2004 dissertation. 
Walsh said he and the film crew used the participants’ “arrogance and false sense of security” to get interviews with people who appear in the film. He said they all live in such a “bubble” and rarely encounter people who disagree with them, which made it easier to infiltrate their ranks without an elaborate disguise.
Kelly also debuted a new clip from the documentary which shows Walsh speaking with anti-racist educator Kate Slater, known for creating what she calls an “anti-racist road map.”
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Watch this exclusive clip from <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a>&#8216;s new documentary &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221; below &#8211; and check out my full interview today with Matt here: <a href="https://t.co/ZxblULlLxU">https://t.co/ZxblULlLxU</a> <a href="https://t.co/EpQilEJrzo">pic.twitter.com/EpQilEJrzo</a>
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1831113674406383691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In the clip, Slater complains about her young daughter preferring “white princesses” in Disney movies.
Walsh responded by saying his 3-year-old daughter’s favorite princess is Moana, but said he was fearful of committing “cultural appropriation” by allowing her to dress like Moana for Halloween.
“Do I go and buy the Pacific Islander native attire for my white 3-year-old?” Walsh asked Slater, referring to it as “The Moana Problem.”
“I wouldn’t. I f***ing wouldn’t,” she replied.
“It’s almost like no matter which way you go, you end up back in racism,” the podcaster said.
Slater chalked it up to “living in a white supremacist society.”
“Is America an inherently racist country?” Walsh asked. Slater initially tried to avoid making a declarative statement by focusing on the word “inherent” and saying she couldn’t say that for sure. So Walsh tried another tactic. It was all in service of fulfilling the documentary’s mission of exposing the DEI grift.
After suggesting that America was “fundamentally” racist, Slater agreed.
“Fundamentally, yes, America is racist to its bones,” she said.
“Am I Racist?” will hit theaters on September 13. Fans can purchase tickets to a showing near them at <a href="http://amiracist.com">amiracist.com</a>.

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‘Everyone Must See’: Megyn Kelly Teases Walsh’s Explosive Interview With Robin DiAngelo In ‘Am I Racist?’

'Everyone Must See': Megyn Kelly Teases Walsh’s Explosive Interview With Robin DiAngelo In 'Am I Racist?'

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Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> recently joined <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> to discuss his upcoming film, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/am-i-racist">Am I Racist?</a>,” including how he kept from laughing at the absurdity of the conversations he was having.
Kelly began by asking Walsh about how he stayed in character for his 2022 smash hit documentary “What is a Woman?,” and again with this latest project, which has the podcast host speaking with people who are fully indoctrinated by DEI propaganda.
Walsh said the question he gets asked a lot about the process of making these kinds of films is about how he keeps a straight face.
“The truth is, stopping myself from laughing is pretty easy, it turns out, because when you’re actually in the room doing this and you’re in the room with these people in real time … it’s pretty intense. And these are really unpleasant people most of the time.”
Walsh said looking back on these conversations may be humorous, but that “in the moment, it’s actually not all that funny” watching “grifters” trying to break down normal people.
“It’s like this brainwashing session that you see in the movie that goes on over and over again,” he added.
Kelly commended Walsh for putting “all the craziest DEI pushers” into a single film to show people what’s going on in this industry. “They hate America, and they really don’t much like white people,” she said.
The pair next discussed Walsh’s disguise and how he didn’t need to go to great lengths to conceal his identity. The podcast host mentioned how it’s probably because most of the people he encountered exist in a bubble and don’t often associate with anyone who disagrees with them.
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“We’re using their arrogance and false sense of intellectual security against them…” <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> on how he exposes grifters brainwashing Americans in new movie, &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221;
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Walsh said he and the film crew used the participants&#8217; “arrogance and false sense of security” to secure interviews with a variety of race hustlers, including “White Fragility” author Robin D’Angelo.
Next, Walsh spoke about the frivolity of getting a DEI certification card, which requires little effort yet is used by certain individuals to make themselves sound important. “It’s all completely made up and really all it’s about is showing ideological alignment with these race hustlers,” he said.
During the same conversation, Kelly debuted a new clip from “Am I Racist?,” which involves Walsh speaking with anti-racist educator Kate Slater, who is proud of developing the “anti-racist road map.”
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In the clip, Slater laments how her young daughter prefers “white princesses” when watching Disney movies.
Walsh responded by saying his 3-year-old daughter’s favorite princess is Moana. But he points out a challenge with that, mentioning how he’s concerned his daughter would be guilty of “cultural appropriation” by dressing like Moana for Halloween.
“Do I go and buy the Pacific Islander native attire for my white 3-year-old?” Walsh asked Slater, referring to it as “The Moana Problem.”
“I wouldn’t. I f***ing wouldn’t,” she replied.
“It’s almost like no matter which way you go, you end up back in racism,” he pointed out.
Slater blamed the issue on “living in a white supremacist society.”
“Is America an inherently racist country?” Walsh asked, to which Slater replied, “Fundamentally, yes, America is racist to its bones.&#8221;
&#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221; will hit theaters on September 13. Fans can purchase tickets to a showing near them at <a href="http://amiracist.com/">amiracist.com</a>.

Matt Walsh Tells Megyn Kelly How He Kept A Straight Face Talking To DEI Grifters In ‘Am I Racist?’

Matt Walsh Tells Megyn Kelly How He Kept A Straight Face Talking To DEI Grifters In 'Am I Racist?'

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The Biden-Harris Internal Revenue Service is hiring a senior diversity practitioner who could make nearly $200,000 in taxpayer funds each year, more than three times the national average income.
The <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/803623900">position</a> at the IRS is titled “senior diversity and inclusion specialist” and has a salary range of $122,198 to $191,900. The <a href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/average-salary-by-state/">average</a> annual American income in 2024 is $59,428, making the upper end of the IRS position’s salary range a full 3.2 times higher than average income. The specialist will be tasked with “identifying best practices that will incorporate diversity and inclusion in training material” and acting as a “trusted subject matter expert and source for diversity and inclusion educational services on the most complex and sensitive diversity and inclusion matters.”
The applicant selected for the role would also need to articulate “a sound business case for diversity that includes education and awareness at all levels of the organization” while tracking “diversity and inclusion education, marketing and communication strategies.”
The IRS job posting comes as the Biden-Harris administration has worked to embed the left-wing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda throughout the federal bureaucracy. The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mandatory-irs-diversity-training-includes-material-from-trans-academic-who-called-for-death-of-whiteness">revealed</a> that a DEI training for IRS criminal investigators cited and included content from a far-left transgender academic who called for the “death of whiteness” in a journal article titled “Dead Honky.”
The IRS is far from the only government agency that has been captured by leftist ideology and the DEI agenda.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-bidens-intel-community-is-celebrating-pride-month-with-free-trans-flag-manicures-and-filipinx-lectures">celebrated pride month</a> by offering transgender flag-colored manicures to intelligence agents and hosting a talk from a “transgender non-binary first-generation Filipinx-American activist and educator,” The Daily Wire previously revealed. ODNI also published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">DEI newsletter</a> that celebrated one crossdressing intelligence agent and warned against using “problematic phrases” when discussing Islamic terrorism.
The National Security Agency created a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">34 page DEI glossary</a> with terms like “white fragility” and “transmisogyny.” And the Department of the Interior <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-guide-on-inclusive-language-tells-bureaucrats-to-ditch-gendered-terms-like-son-daughter">published a guide</a> to &#8220;inclusive language&#8221; that instructed bureaucrats to ditch gendered terms like &#8220;son,&#8221; &#8220;daughter,&#8221; &#8220;husband,&#8221; and &#8220;wife.&#8221; The department also hosted an &#8220;ally awards&#8221; ceremony, where some bureaucrats performed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-crying-you-are-video-captures-federal-bureaucrats-reciting-diversity-poem">diversity poem reading</a>.
The Commerce Department is hiring a Diversity Program Specialist who&#8217;ll be tasked with establishing &#8220;strategic partnerships with external diversity related organizations,&#8221; among other duties. The <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/807462700#duties">active job listing</a> includes a maximum salary of $128,956 a year.
Former President Donald Trump has indicated that he would gut the federal bureaucracy if reelected, reigning in those who would otherwise obstruct his policy agenda.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump declared at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”

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Over a dozen Republican state financial officers demanded this week that a powerful business lobbying group reassess its commitment to woke capitalism amid a nationwide backlash against companies pushing leftist politics. 
On Wednesday, the top financial officers for 14 states sent a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Business-Roundtable-Letter-August-28.pdf">letter</a> to the Business Roundtable,  an association of over 200 CEOs whose companies produce about one fourth of the nation&#8217;s GDP. The letter takes aim at the Roundtable&#8217;s 2019 decision to embrace a &#8220;stakeholder capitalism&#8221; model, wherein corporations prioritize social goals over generating profit. The financial officers argue that the shift to stakeholder capitalism gave CEOs an excuse to start wading into political matters and pushing leftist politics. 
“Institutions of all kinds are being pressured to depart from their proper purpose and serve a left-wing ideology. In the case of corporations, doing so harms shareholder value. It is more important than ever to honestly state the purpose of your corporation and your role, and ‘live not by lies,’” the financial officers wrote. 
The letter comes just after the five year anniversary of the Business Roundtable rolling out a new <a href="https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redefines-the-purpose-of-a-corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement of purpose.</a> Dozens of powerful CEOs pledged to make their companies revolve around a “fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders” and rejected the Business Roundtable&#8217;s previous statement that &#8220;corporations exist principally to serve their shareholders.&#8221;
&#8220;It has become clear that this language on corporate purpose does not accurately describe the ways in which we and our fellow CEOs endeavor every day to create value for all our stakeholders, whose long-term interests are inseparable,&#8221; Business Roundtable <a href="https://www.businessroundtable.org/opportunity-commitment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on August 19, 2019.
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Noah Wall, the executive vice president for policy and governmental affairs of the State Financial Officers Foundation, told The Daily Wire that Business Roundtable’s adoption of stakeholder capitalism has discouraged companies from making smart business decisions, to a disastrous end. 
“From our perspective, the last five years have been an utter disaster,” he said. “You’ve seen companies undertake a whole host of different types of activities that have been focused on politics rather than the bottom line, rather than providing a quality good or service.” 
This activism includes incidents like Coca-Cola’s 2021 condemnation of Georgia’s election integrity law, and Bud Light’s partnership with transgender-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney. 
Will Hild, who leads the anti-woke group Consumers&#8217; Research, said that activist CEOs used the redefinition to push their own political agenda. 
“Whenever they want to push a far Left, progressive agenda, they will claim they are not doing it of their own volition, they are doing it on behalf a ‘stakeholder’ and that that’s ok because stakeholder capitalism is actually better for the shareholders,” he told The Daily Wire. 
However, some businesses now appear to be retreating from politics. In recent weeks, companies like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-its-jack-daniels-getting-rid-of-dei-initiatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Daniels</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harley-davidson-becomes-latest-company-to-back-away-from-dei-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harley-Davidson</a> have walked backed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies following customer pushback led by conservative activist Robby Starbuck. Other companies, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lowes-cuts-ties-with-leftist-activist-group-scales-back-dei-initiatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lowe’s</a>, have also pivoted by saying their philanthropic work will now focus on apolitical causes like disaster relief and trade education.  
Even Business Roundtable members like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tractor-supply-reverses-course-backs-out-of-woke-initiatives-following-conservative-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tractor Supply</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-deere-is-latest-company-to-diminish-dei-says-it-wont-join-social-or-cultural-awareness-parades" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Deere</a> have announced moves away from woke initiatives.
The top financial officers for Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all signed on to the letter. The signatories urged all the members of Business Roundtable to reconsider their endorsement of the stakeholder capitalism approach.
&#8220;The next step is for the Business Roundtable to issue an updated document that accurately reflects the purpose of a corporation and remind people about the incredible benefits business provides society, without becoming political promoters or enforcers,&#8221; they wrote. 
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Hild said that businesses&#8217;s retreat from DEI has been motivated by customers speaking out against woke policies, as well as Starbucks&#8217; “excellent activism” targeting companies that were most detached from their customer base. 
He also said that conservative legal action — like Florida passing anti-woke legislation — made corporations think twice before proceeding with more politicized business decisions. 
However, he said that there would still be a big battle to dismantle the DEI offices and positions that have been entrenched in so many businesses. 
”These people are going to have to be chiseled out,” he said. “They’re illegitimate, they don’t belong there, they don’t have an actually legitimate function except to keep themselves employed and try to turn the company that they work into a political utility for the far Left.”

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The Cleveland Clinic scrubbed references to its minority-only health clinic after a conservative group filed a federal civil rights complaint against the provider earlier this month. 
The Clinic removed information on its “Minority Men’s Health Center” from its website sometime after August 14, when the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cleveland-clinic-accused-of-racial-discrimination-over-health-clinic-for-minority-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint</a> with the Department of Health and Human Services accusing the clinic of illegal discrimination. The complaint was filed on behalf of Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine. 
The complaint specifically took issue with the clinic&#8217;s racially-focused “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center.” 
According to <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Cleveland-Clinic-Minority-Mens-Health-Center-Webpage-Capture-Aug-8-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived</a> pages from its website, the Minority Men’s Health Center is focused on “minority health concerns,” and says it helps doctors “more effectively address health disparities in minority populations.”
Links that previously went to information about the health center now go to information about kidney health. However, references to the center can still be <a href="https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2018/04/18/community-leaders-and-telemedicine-can-help-narrow-the-gap-in-minority-mens-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in news releases and other pages on the website. 
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The <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/neurological/depts/cerebrovascular/minority-stroke-program">minority stroke program</a>, which is still featured on the Cleveland Health Clinic’s website, is “focused on preventing and treating stroke in racial and ethnic minorities” and increasing “stroke awareness among minority groups in order to lower stroke rates and improve stroke outcomes.”
&#8220;We removed the Minority Men&#8217;s Health Center page from our website because the center has not been in place for several years,&#8221; the clinic told The Daily Wire Thursday afternoon. &#8220;Our Minority Stroke Program is still active and is open to all patients.&#8221;
The Cleveland Clinic has over 48,000 employees across 14 affiliated hospitals and 20 family centers in northeast <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a>. It also has several affiliated hospitals in Florida and a cancer center in Nevada.
Do No Harm senior fellow Dr. Jared Ross told The Daily Wire that the clinic&#8217;s racially-focused initiatives were illegal under the Civil Rights Act and the Affordable Care Act. He added that while the clinic removing references to the programs is a good sign, it remains to be seen if the clinic will revive the programs under a different name.
Ross said that both programs caused unnecessary division by separating patients by race. 
“Anytime we have segregation based on race, it’s harmful,” Ross said. “We have a huge politically incentivized faction that wants to bring back segregation and it’s really unfortunate to go back to this idea of clinics for white people and clinics for black people.” 
This story was updated with comment from the Cleveland Clinic.

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Disney is hiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) director who could earn up to four times the national average income pushing a far-left agenda.
A <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/director-strategic-external-engagement-enterprise-dei-at-the-walt-disney-company-4001422945?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F">job posting</a> from the Walt Disney Company for a DEI director role advertises a minimum salary of $197,700 and a maximum salary of $241,500. The <a href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/average-salary-by-state/">average</a> American salary in 2024 is $59,428 annually.
“We&#8217;re seeking a Director of Strategic External Engagement &#8211; Enterprise DEI to lead our efforts in building strategic relationships with external stakeholders, driving community engagement, and generating valuable insights to support our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) objectives,” the job description reads.
The new director will be tasked with advancing the company&#8217;s left-wing program, and be required to “lead initiatives focused on specific dimensions of diversity,” and “amplify DEI content and communicate progress.”
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The DEI agenda has come under criticism from consumer protection professionals who say that the ideology is both immoral and unprofitable.
&#8220;DEI is a scam. It is by definition an attack on competence, replacing it with the barest of bean counting racism and sexism&#8221; said Will Hild, Executive Director of <a href="https://consumersresearch.org/will-hild/">Consumers&#8217; Research</a>, a consumer protection non-profit. &#8220;There is zero value added by paying a DEI officer a quarter of a million dollars per year to enforce left-wing ideology. DEI departments add nothing to a company&#8217;s bottom line.&#8221;
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&#8220;That Disney is doubling down on DEI instead of desperately trying to right their sinking financial ship by abandoning explicitly political storytelling tells you just how captured by the woke mind virus a once-great American company truly is,&#8221; Hild told The Daily Wire.
Disney has a history of pushing the far-left DEI ideology. A series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/undercover-okeefe-video-disney-vp-says-the-company-discriminates-against-white-men">undercover investigations</a> from the O’Keefe Media Group revealed that the company could be engaging in anti-white, anti-male discrimination and is aggressively pushing the transgender agenda. Video shows a former Disney senior vice president saying he has been passed over for promotions because he was a white male.
“I have friends in HR and I have friends in other divisions. And they’re like, ‘Look, nobody else is going to tell you this, Mike, but they’re not considering any white males for the job,&#8217;” former senior vice president Michael Giordano said on camera to an undercover journalist.
Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-disney-pressures-employees-to-support-sex-change-attempts-undercover-report-finds">investigation</a> from the O’Keefe Media Group found that Disney pushes the transgender agenda on its employees and even compels them to encourage their coworkers’ transition attempts.
It also revealed that employees organized a “global employee collective” called the “Disney Pride Think Tank” that sought to “advance LGBTQ+ representation in our content, products, experiences, and services.”
While Disney has doubled down on its DEI program, other large corporations are retreating from the left-wing agenda amid public backlash. Harley-Davidson recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harley-davidson-becomes-latest-company-to-back-away-from-dei-policies">announced</a> that it would ditch its DEI practices, as have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tractor-supply-reverses-course-backs-out-of-woke-initiatives-following-conservative-backlash">Tractor Supply</a> and <a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2024/08/26/lowes-scraps-some-dei-programs-as-activist-claims-another-win/">Lowe’s.</a>
According to Hild, companies like Disney refuse to abandon DEI in the face of opposition because &#8220;a narrow circle of Ivy League-educated Human Resources managers&#8221; who staff these companies is captivated by &#8220;wokeness.&#8221; He also noted that consumers can push corporations away from DEI.
&#8220;Consumers shouldn&#8217;t underestimate the importance of contacting the companies to express their disapproval, and criticizing or mocking them on social media.&#8221;

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Michigan Technological University has rebranded its diversity office, the latest in a trend of schools renaming their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
The school&#8217;s Office of Diversity and Inclusion will now be known as &#8220;Engagement and Belonging,&#8221; the school <a href="https://blogs.mtu.edu/belonging/2024/08/01/introducing-engagement-and-belonging/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on its website.
The change was made official on August 1.
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&#8220;This change reflects Michigan Tech’s continued dedication to fostering a welcoming and supportive environment for all members of the University community, while emphasizing the intentional efforts made to achieve this goal,&#8221; the school said.
The office’s services, functions, and staff will remain the same, the school said.
&#8220;Engagement and Belonging is excited for this next chapter and looks forward to collaborating with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and external partners to further strengthen a sense of belonging for everyone at Michigan Tech,&#8221; the school said.
Michigan Tech did not respond to a request for comment.
The Upper Peninsula school is far from the first to make such a change amid controversy around DEI and its effects on higher education.
Last summer, the University of South Carolina reorganized and <a href="https://www.thestate.com/news/local/education/article278561334.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renamed</a> its DEI office to the Division of Access, Civil Rights and Community Engagement.
In December, Clemson University, also in South Carolina, <a href="https://scdailygazette.com/2023/12/19/clemson-becomes-second-sc-university-to-rename-equity-and-inclusion-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renamed</a> its DEI office the Division of Community Engagement, Belonging and Access.
In Texas, a new law prohibiting higher education institutions from having diversity offices prompted some Texas schools to give their DEI offices new names involving words like “belonging,” “community engagement,” and “student development.”
However, the Republican Texas lawmaker who sponsored the DEI law pushed back.
State Senator Brandon Creighton wrote letters to Texas&#8217; public university systems warning that simply renaming their diversity offices does not comply with the law.
“While I am encouraged with the progress I have seen from many institutions of higher education in implementing SB 17, I am deeply concerned with the possibility that many institutions may choose to merely rename their offices or employee titles,” Creighton <a href="https://mcusercontent.com/97acf22aca6983d50d142ba88/files/2094d322-b63e-9c09-9f97-42b0169c58d2/3.26.24_.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
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“This letter should serve as notice that this practice is unacceptable,” he said.
Numerous states <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/anti-dei-bills-states-republican-lawmakers-map-rcna140756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> introduced legislation to ban or crack down on DEI programs and practices over the last several years.
Florida&#8217;s education board banned public colleges from using state or federal funds on DEI initiatives.
Utah prohibited diversity programs such as DEI statements in higher education, public schools, and government employment. The state also banned the words “diversity, equity and inclusion” from being in a public office&#8217;s name.
In Arizona, where a bill to ban DEI practices passed, Republican state Senator Anthony Kern said, “We don’t want public money going to political activism; promoting DEI.”

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