Washington state is preparing to spend an estimated $83,000 on an employee diversity training featuring the Director of Drag Queen Story Hour, information obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
Titled the <a href="https://ofm.wa.gov/state-human-resources/workforce-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-council/deiconference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington DEI Empowerment Conference</a>, the training is set to include talks on diversity, “anti-racism,” and equity every Wednesday in June.
Hayden Michaels, the deputy communications director of the Office of Financial Management, told The Daily Wire that “We expect the cost of putting on the conference to be about $83,000. With 16 sessions and 5,000 seats each session, this works out to $1.06 per seat.”
The conference includes a keynote speech titled “Drag Story Hour and Fireside Chat,” which will take place on June 21st.
The speech’s description defends the performance of drag in front of children, explaining that Executive Director of Drag Queen Story Hour Jonathan Hamilt will share “the necessity of LGBTQAI+ family programming and how the powerful art-form of drag teaches young humans about inclusivity, celebrating diversity, and the vital freedom of self-expression.”
Hamilt, who himself dresses in drag, has a personal goal of &#8220;offering affirming and accepting programming for kids&#8221; in an attempt to heal his &#8220;inner child,&#8221; his biography states.
Drag Queen Story Hour has been caught bringing <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-public-library-admits-registered-child-sex-offender-participated-in-drag-queen-storytime/285-becf3a0d-56c5-4f3c-96df-add07bbd002a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">registered sex offenders</a> into close contact with children at their events on <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/second-drag-queen-story-hour-library-reader-exposed-as-convicted-child-sex-offender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> different occasions.
The talk will also include Alex Petrovina and Sam Mendum-Purdy of the Trans Formations Project, a non-profit organization that <a href="https://www.transformationsproject.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims to</a> &#8220;protect trans kids&#8221; and is &#8220;<a href="https://www.transformationsproject.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dedicated to tracking</a> and educating about the anti-trans legislative crisis currently sweeping the United States.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the conference will also <a href="https://ofm.wa.gov/state-human-resources/workforce-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-council/deiconference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">include a talk</a> titled &#8220;Incorporating DEIB and Anti-Racism Work into Recruitment.&#8221; The talk&#8217;s description explains that those working in talent acquisition and Human Resources have &#8220;unique opportunities to create equity and inclusion in very intentional ways in our day-to-day workflow.&#8221; Speakers Lisa Grund and Tangi Tash hope to establish &#8220;authenticity and antiracism as a way of life at work.&#8221;
A session called &#8220;The Elephant in the Room&#8221; will discuss America&#8217;s &#8220;original and most persistent sin, racism.&#8221; The talk will be led by Phillip Jacobs, who previously directed the Washington Employers for Racial Equity.
The majority of the estimated sum, $48,000, is intended to cover speaker fees. Meanwhile, $17,923 is slated to go towards accessibility services such as transcription and sign language interpreters. Another $17,440 will be allocated to technology required for the virtual conference.
Michaels went on to add that the conference allows state employees to “learn more about the lived experiences and challenges of Washingtonians we often don’t reach or hear from,” before also claiming “These are people who regularly face systemic barriers, exclusion from accessing government services, harm from policies, or discrimination in the workplace.”

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Let&#8217;s face it, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s America has us all strapped for cash and thinking of ways to earn a little extra cheddar.
Writers — historically one pay grade above the local parish priest — aren&#8217;t immune to the current economic malaise. How can one alleviate that economic stress? Well, ironically, it seems that the cultural Marxist push for diversity, equity, and inclusion at every business, organization, and knitting club in America can help provide a little extra spending money for this author — and you, if you really want to go down that path.
Some Americans have turned to digital currency in hopes of making money. You probably have a friend from high school who constantly posts his or her involvement in a <del datetime="2023-05-18T17:27:18+00:00">Ponzi</del> multi-level marketing scheme and how excited he or she is to &#8220;make money from home as my own boss!&#8221; Both those options seem hit or miss — and by that, I mean that it seems like a scam with very little return.
Yet, maybe there is a scam of all scams and one that pays thousands by the hour that can help us all out: Becoming a diversity, equity, and inclusion manager.
DEI, as we all know, has taken the nation by storm. Looking at the salary ranges over at SimplyHired.com, you can <a href="https://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=diversity+inclusion+consultant&amp;job=H-2eqEnQ_jwfiZdvDSF7VnXpmnC_Wu1QBosymi7LcN2NOgcDhv2f0A">earn anywhere in the high $70k range to $135,000.</a>
Now, working in an office doing this job would be the worst. You could only fake it till you make it before the fluorescent lighting and awkward small talk that accompanies most cube farms makes you want to find a new job — like selling those fast weight-loss drinks that one aforementioned high school friend has been posting about. (Author&#8217;s note: The Daily Wire isn&#8217;t like that. It&#8217;s a great place to work)
The real crème de la crème would be getting a DEI gig on a college campus as a chief diversity officer. It would provide a walkable community, free or cheap lunches provided each day, and near-guaranteed job security. Well, it would be a secure position so long as you don&#8217;t let a bunch of nutcases from the law school shout down a federal judge — then you might land yourself in hot water like that one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-laws-diversity-dean-who-lectured-judge-grew-up-in-wealth-privilege" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford diversity dean</a>.
Yet consider that in 2018, a <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24969/w24969.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> showed that &#8220;The trend for hiring executive-level diversity officers began in the early 2000s. By 2016, approximately 65 percent of higher education institutions established a form of this executive position.&#8221;
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At the time, the <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/09/08/study-hiring-chief-diversity-officers-at-universities-doesnt-actually-increase-diversity-n2515680" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a> CDO pay was more than $175,000, according to one report. But the 2018 study found that CDOs, despite their enormous salary, didn&#8217;t actually increase diversity. Do you know why? In short, because the CDO had no real power over diversity hiring practices.
This means that CDOs can simply blame everybody around them for failing at their job.
That brings us to the real heart of this DEI push. It&#8217;s very simple: All you need to do, to be successful at your job, is blame the white man for any problem in life and at your place of work.
If you&#8217;re white, as this author is, you can justify holding the job by saying people of color shouldn&#8217;t have to educate fellow white people. Those aren&#8217;t my words, that&#8217;s what numerous leftist activists argue. (See this column from The Washington Post as an example: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/08/black-friends-educate-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I’m your black friend, but I won’t educate you about racism. That’s on you.</a>)
But let&#8217;s say you don&#8217;t want to deal with the hassle of doing a job interview to get that college-campus gig. Boy have we got something even better for you.
A few years ago, a group of women started a concept known as &#8220;Race to Dinner.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/race-to-dinner-party-racism-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> by The Guardian, &#8220;A white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women – often strangers, perhaps acquaintances. (Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous host or divided among guests.)&#8221;
What happens next? Well, at Race to Dinner, the co-founders lead a conversation to &#8220;challenge liberal white women to accept their racism, however subconscious.&#8221;
One of the founders, Saira Rao, explained that the dinner table is just too comfortable for white women.
“If you did this in a conference room, they’d leave,” Rao said. “But wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table.”
Rao is a bit of an expert on combatting so-called whiteness and dismantling American society that perpetuates systemic racism — in her mind. For example, she <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/03/democrat-congress-hates-white-people-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has said the American flag</a> makes her sick and has questioned why she isn&#8217;t supposed to hate white people.
So if she can do it, and charge $2,500 to go eat a free meal and tell white people how bad they are, then anybody can do it.
Unfortunately, you&#8217;d have to give up your moral conscience, common sense, and any ethical standard you have to get in on this racket. That wouldn&#8217;t be good for your soul — and there is a far greater treasure waiting for you in Heaven, anyway.
Personally, writing for The Daily Wire is a real dream job. Nothing is better than advocating conservative principles while working for a better future each day, but, man, that DEI hustle sure is tempting.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Should This Author Change Careers And Become A Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Counselor? It’s A Remarkably Lucrative ‘Job.’

Should This Author Change Careers And Become A Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Counselor? It's A Very Lucrative 'Job.'

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Bud Light has taken a massive hit since it partnered with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney last month. The brand has tried to rehabilitate itself with conservative consumers with <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/budweiser-patriotic-advert-bud-light-backlash-dylan-mulvaney-boycott-1794700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Americana-saturated</a> advertisements as well as camo- and Harley Davidson-themed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-budweiser-release-camo-harley-davidson-limited-edition-cans-as-sales-continue-to-plummet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cans</a>, but bad news keeps rolling in for the company.
Sales for Bud Light <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-sales-plummet-for-fifth-straight-week-as-customers-react-against-mulvaney-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> 23.6% in the week ending on May 6 relative to the same period last year, marking a fifth straight week of plummeting demand. Additionally, other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-you-want-to-boycott-anheuser-busch-over-dylan-mulvaney-add-these-brands-to-your-no-buy-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major brands</a> that belong to Bud Light&#8217;s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, have taken a major hit, with sales of Budweiser, Michelob Ultra, and Natural Light falling 9.7%, 2.9%, and 2.5%, respectively, in the same period. Major international bank HSBC even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-bank-downgrades-anheuser-buschs-stock-status-as-sales-continue-to-crater" target="_blank" rel="noopener">downgraded</a> Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s stock to a hold status, meaning investors are advised to neither buy nor sell the stock, over the fallout from the controversy.
One of the competing beer brands that has seen a significant increase in sales in the wake of the Bud Light debacle is Miller Lite, which is owned by parent company Molson Coors. Miller Lite&#8217;s sales <a href="https://www.outkick.com/miller-lite-coors-light-sales-soar-as-bud-light-plummets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> 16.9% in dollar sales and almost 12% in volume by the end of April, and other Molson Coors brands like Coors Lite saw similar windfalls.
Molson Coors, a Canadian-American company, is the biggest rival to Anheuser-Busch in the American beer market. Its most famous brands, Coors Lite and Miller Lite, are two of the top 10 <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/half-americas-10-most-popular-beers-have-lgbt-partnerships-1793173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best-selling beers</a> in America and are the only beers on that list that aren&#8217;t owned by AB InBev, Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s parent company. Other well-known brands owned by the company include Blue Moon and Keystone.
Most likely trying to capitalize on Bud Light&#8217;s decline, Coors <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CsEMIN8A--m/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> an advertisement for Coors Banquet last week featuring &#8220;Yellowstone&#8221; star Cole Hauser that made sure to stress Coors&#8217; rough-and-tumble reputation as a favorite brew of &#8220;rock stars, smugglers, cowboys, and presidents.&#8221;
But Molson Coors <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NtBQWZqaHo">released</a> another ad during Women&#8217;s History Month back in March that went relatively unnoticed at the time, but now that it resurfaced this week, could shine a brighter light on the company&#8217;s social justice sympathies and cause a new beer backlash.
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The ad in question featured female comedian Ilana Glazer, who <a href="https://people.com/politics/ilana-glazer-essay-midterms-voting-far-right-extremism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supports</a> the usual bevy of leftist causes (abortion, gun control, climate change, etc.) and identifies as queer. In the commercial, she claimed that women were &#8220;among the first to brew beer ever&#8221; and declared that the beer industry needed to atone for its previous marketing campaigns that featured women in bikinis. The ad also promised to donate fertilizer so that female brewers could grow hops, the flowers used as a bittering and stability agent in beer.
“Here’s a little-known fact: women were among the very first to brew beer ever. From Mesopotamia to the Middle Ages to colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing. Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis,” Glazer said. “Look at this $#!T. Wild. It’s time beer made it up to women, so today Miller Lite is on a mission to clean up not just their $#!T, but the whole beer industry’s $#!T. Miller Lite has been scouring the internet for all this $#!T and buying it back so that they can turn it into good $#!T for women brewers.”
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_NtBQWZqaHo">WATCH: Miller Lite Commercial</a>
After the video resurfaced and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/miller-lite-responds-to-backlash-over-woke-feminist-beer-commercial-appreciate-the-humor">backlash</a> began on social media, Miller Lite used the same tactic that Bud Light had unsuccessfully tried after the Dylan Mulvaney controversy: downplay the whole thing.
&#8220;This video was about two things: worm poop and saying women shouldn’t be forced to mud wrestle in order to sell beer,” a company spokesperson said. “Neither of these things should be remotely controversial and we hope beer drinkers can appreciate the humor (and ridiculousness) of this video from back in March.”
But this ad isn&#8217;t some one-off designed to pander to women during Women&#8217;s History Month; it&#8217;s only a single example of Molson Coors&#8217; long history of supporting woke causes.
Soon after the Women&#8217;s History Month resurfaced, Twitter sleuths discovered a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) video from Molson Coors that suggested the Glazer ad was part of a wider strategy from the company.
“The role of diversity, equity and inclusion is the responsibility of all employees, every single day. We each own a role in making diversity, equity and inclusion part of everything we do – from how we work together to how we grow our company,” the narrator said in the video.
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“The role of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is the responsibility of all employees, every single day”
Here is Miller Lite’s internal Woke messaging for their employees. Either you support DEI or you can’t work there. <a href="https://t.co/XS8ifLjRoD">pic.twitter.com/XS8ifLjRoD</a>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/miller-lite-parent-company-molson-coors-pushes-woke-corporate-diversity-and-climate-agenda">According</a> to the video and the company&#8217;s most recent Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, it is dedicated to increasing its “women workforce representation globally” and tracking the percentages of board members, senior managers, and salaried employees who are females. Outside of the U.S., Molson Coors covers &#8220;gender-affirming treatment&#8221; as part of its Canadian employees&#8217; healthcare plan.
Molson Coors is also monitoring the number of racial minorities that are employed at the company and established a target to spend $1 billion with &#8220;diverse suppliers&#8221; from 2021 to 2023. It also supports &#8220;dozens of black, indigenous and people of color” organizations that are explicitly “dedicated to social justice.”
“Leading with our most important value to put people first, we continue to take steps forward on our DEI journey,” Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley said in a <a href="https://www.molsoncoors.com/diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> prominently featured on the company’s website. “For it is only through the unique experiences and perspectives from our people that we will drive long-term change for our company, our communities and society as a whole.”
Additionally, Coors Light has sponsored Denver PrideFest for several years and supports several LGBT organizations. Coors Light has even <a href="https://twitter.com/LakotaMan1/status/1643375335969546241/photo/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to itself as “refreshingly proud” and boasted that it “has been committed to supporting the LGBT community for nearly 30 years and continues to champion equality for all.” The LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD has <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bud-light-coors-transgender-pride-dylan-mulvaney-1793023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> Coors as “among the most progressive for its employee policies toward gays.”
Bud Light stepped on a landmine when it decided to partner with Mulvaney, and now many of its other woke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-bud-lights-parent-company-pushes-radical-gender-theory-and-cozies-up-to-the-wef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiatives</a> have come under scrutiny alongside the ongoing boycott. Meanwhile, Molson Coors, which has engaged in this type of rhetoric for decades in some instances, has until recently flown under the radar of conservatives. It&#8217;s doubtful that the Women&#8217;s History Month ad inspires a backlash as sustained and damaging as the one that is still hammering Anheuser-Busch, but it could make more conservatives aware of how entrenched these ideas are in some of the most popular companies in the country.

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Bud Light Got Torched For Its Dylan Mulvaney Partnership, But Another Iconic Beer Brand’s Woke Ad Slipped Under The Radar

Bud Light Got Torched For Dylan Mulvaney Partnership, But Another Iconic Beer Brand's Woke Ad Slipped Under The Radar

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The Office of Personnel Management, the agency which manages the civilian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workforce</a> for the federal government, announced a proposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a> on using previous salary history for setting payment offers, a move which officials contend will narrow the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-wage-gap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender wage gap</a>.
The new proposed <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-09564.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rules</a> would prohibit federal entities from considering salary history for employees in the General Schedule pay system, which currently incorporates 1.3 million members of the federal workforce. Agencies would instead need to rely on factors such as payment precedent for other employees with the same level of skill and experience.
“These proposed regulations are a major step forward that will help make the federal government a national leader in pay equity,” Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja said in a <a href="https://www.opm.gov/news/releases/2023/04/opm-releases-proposed-regulations-to-prohibit-use-of-previous-salary-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “Relying on a candidate’s previous salary history can exacerbate preexisting inequality and disproportionally impact women and workers of color. With these proposed regulations, the Biden-Harris administration is setting the standard and demonstrating to the nation that we mean business when it comes to equality, fairness, and attracting the best talent.”
The Office of Personnel Management contended in the release that “implementing salary history bans can narrow the gender wage gap” and reduce “disparities for workers of color compared to white workers.” The federal gender pay gap for the civilian workforce was 5.6% as of last year.
Research has shown, on the other hand, that women <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/equal-pay-day-2021-where-do-women-actually-stand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tend</a> to earn less than men because of factors such as the types of careers they choose, the number of hours they work, and the decisions they often make to exempt themselves from the workforce in order to raise children or care for elderly family members. Recent decreases in wage disparity may be attributable to the increased proportion of women entering fields historically preferred by men.
The proposed rules referenced an executive order from President Joe Biden to achieve “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” in the federal workforce, as well as a strategic <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Strategic-Plan-to-Advance-Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-and-Accessibility-in-the-Federal-Workforce-11.23.21.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> which includes an “equity roadmap” calling for “policies that do not rely solely on prior salary history” to establish payment schedules. “Even with decades of progress building a federal workforce that draws from the full diversity of the nation, many underserved communities remain under-represented in the federal workforce, especially in positions of leadership,” the plan said.
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The diversity, equity, and inclusion movement, also known as DEI or DEIA, acquired a larger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/technology-firms-send-diversity-czars-packing-in-bid-to-become-more-profitable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foothold</a> in the public and private sectors after the social justice movement which spread across the nation three years ago. The Biden administration <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">operates</a> under a “whole-of-government approach to racial equity and support for underserved communities” and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/turned-government-funded-racism-into-an-art-biden-creates-army-of-equity-bureaucrats-across-the-federal-government-with-latest-executive-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mandated</a> earlier this year that members of the Cabinet must create “agency equity teams” to ensure federal workforces are sufficiently diverse.
Biden has announced on several other occasions that he would make critical nomination decisions based on the race and sex of the appointees. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-rebukes-white-house-over-plans-to-choose-new-federal-reserve-vice-chair-with-diversity-in-mind" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that officials would “look at a highly diverse group of world-class economists” when selecting the next vice chair of the Federal Reserve because of the administration’s commitment to “diversity and representation.”

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White House Makes New Move To Purge ‘Gender Pay Gap’ From Federal Government

White House Bans Considering Salary History When Hiring To Purge 'Gender Pay Gap' From Federal Government

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Bud Light&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-confirms-brand-partnership-with-dylan-mulvaney-aim-to-authentically-connect-with-various-demographics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnership</a> with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-post-and-not-a-campaign-bud-light-owners-ceo-dismisses-backlash-over-mulvaney-partnership-as-misinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed by Anheuser-Busch’s CEO</a> as a one-off and nothing more, but Daily Wire host Michael Knowles is skeptical.
In a tweet thread Monday, Knowles pointed out that Bud Light’s European parent company AB InBev is pushing a wide-ranging LGBTQ and DEI agenda. AB InBev’s 2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) <a href="https://www.ab-inbev.com/assets/pressreleases/2023/AB%20InBev_2022%20ESG%20Report_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> shows that the company is openly going along with the World Economic Forum (WEF) by promoting leftist agenda items ranging from climate change and censorship to diversity goals and radical gender theory. 
“One might think that Bud Light could just apologize and admit that men aren’t women. But no matter how much Bud Light and parent company AB InBev might wish to rein in the radicalism, they can’t abandon the agenda,” Knowles said. “They’re mired in World Economic Forum/ESG gobbledygook.”
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Transheuser-Busch is still scrambling over the Mulvaney beer can as sales continue to tank. But it’s caught between a rock of customers and a hard place called “GARM,” a WEF-backed operation which was subpoenaed Friday by <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> and the House Judiciary. Here’s why:🧵
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1655660155134943250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Along with accepting the leftist principles set forth through DEI and ESG initiatives, AB InBev has “adopted a corporate policy that exalts ‘gender identity and expression’ to the same level of significance as age and race,” Knowles added. The company says that it will help employees pay for sex-change procedures in the U.S. and Canada and promises “financial and legal support” for employees in Brazil and Colombia who are seeking to change their names.
In addition to its support for sex-change procedures, AB InBev offers “family-forming” options for gay couples “like two men buying the eggs &amp; womb of a woman to intentionally remove a baby from its mother at birth,” Knowles said.
AB InBev wants leftist DEI principles to touch “upon all functions, including Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing and others,” but AB InBev’s leftist campaigns don’t stay inside the company. The beer maker also seeks to train “buyers and suppliers on our [diversity and inclusion] Supplier strategy.” 
AB InBev’s pandering to leftist principles doesn’t end there. Knowles also pointed out that the company is part of a WEF initiative that has created “standards that limit or entirely demonetize platforms that contain ‘hate speech’ on ‘gender identity,’ ‘insensitive… treatment of debated social issues,’ or the classic ‘misinformation.’” 
The initiative, created in 2019 and called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), <a href="https://wfanet.org/about-wfa/our-members/global-brands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> corporations Adidas, BP, CVS, Goldman Sachs, Lego, Mastercard, McDonald&#8217;s, Merck, Nike, P&amp;G, Hershey, Disney, Unilever, Walmart, and more. GARM’s “misinformation” <a href="https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2022/06/21/GARM-announces-guidelines-on-misinformation-standards-on-ad-placements-and-expansion-to-cover-the-metaverse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a> were “introduced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war” and “have been designed to provide a structure for demonetizing misinformation.” 
GARM was the target of questioning from U.S. lawmakers on Friday when the Republican-led House issued subpoenas aimed at the WEF initiative. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote in letters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordans-house-panel-takes-aim-at-wef-backed-scheme-to-censor-harmful-online-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained by The Daily Wire</a> that GARM and the group that created it — World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) — may be facilitating coordination by its members in a manner that violates U.S. antitrust law.
Knowles said that “GARM is so powerful and controls so much advertising money (like that of Bud Light) that YouTube, Meta (FB &amp; IG), Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and others are writing pages of reports as to how they are going to run their platforms to appease GARM standards.” 
Knowles concluded his tweet thread with a dire warning.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t look away,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t put an end to this growing scheme of control and deceit, Bud Light&#8217;s inability to apologize and admit that men can&#8217;t be women will be the least of our problems.&#8221;

Michael Knowles

Knowles Dissects Bud Light Parent Company’s Leftist Agenda, Ties To WEF: Mulvaney Partnership ‘Least Of Our Problems’

Michael Knowles Dissects Bud Light Parent Company’s Leftist Agenda, Ties To WEF

Business

World Economic Forum

A woman who hunted down and destroyed the life of a private figure who once wore blackface to a Halloween party in an episode widely seen as the peak of cancel-culture zealotry later resurfaced briefly in the Biden administration.
Lexie Grüber-Pérez, who attended a 2018 party thrown by then-Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles despite not being invited, complained two years later that she had seen a woman wearing blackface there. Although the woman, later identified as Sue Schafer, wore blackface in an effort to criticize racism, the complaint from Grüber-Pérez prompted a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/blackface-incident-at-washington-post-cartoonists-2018-halloween-party-resurfaces-amid-protests/2020/06/17/66f09bde-af2e-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">front-page article</a> and the cancelation of Schafer and possibly Toles. The article shocked people across the political spectrum with its vindictive and malignant tone, and was described as the “<a href="https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1273656116573097984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1273656116573097984%7Ctwgr%5Ee9ce25b6cccae9030c149f062e98f8781f01e061%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fwashington-post-blackface-costume-halloween-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">zenith</a> of cancel culture.”
Grüber-Pérez began working as a senior advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services in September 2021, The Daily Wire has learned. According to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexiegruberperez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> profile, which pictures her with Biden, she left the job after six months and now lives in England.
“Now is the time to address the stark racial disparities, acknowledge the history of criminalizing neglect, and move towards the new systems of care that prevent the need for family separation,” she said on Facebook after taking the job, according to <a href="https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/foster-youth-advocate-joins-biden-administrations-child-welfare-agency-leadership/58773" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Imprint</a>, a publication which chronicles the youth human services industry.
The strident racial activism of Grüber-Pérez was on full display at the 2018 Halloween party after she saw Schaefer, whom she did not know and who had no position of public prominence. Witnesses said she yelled at the tearful woman, who tried to explain that the costume was criticism of Megyn Kelly’s purported minimization of the practice, a controversy that was in the news that week. Nearly two years later, Gruber sought out the stranger’s identity, refused to accept an apology from her, and bullied the Post into writing the 3,000 word article about the woman’s misstep, published in June 2020.
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The cancellation in the Post was so vengeful that it attracted almost uniform backlash for weeks. The story seemed to be entirely driven by Grüber-Pérez, who emailed Toles out of the blue to complain about the incident at his long-ago party. She demanded to know the name of the guest, and when Toles declined to give up Schaefer&#8217;s identity to a stranger, Grüber-Pérez accused him of &#8220;a deliberate act of white privilege and cowardice.&#8221;
Toles&#8217; five-decade career came to an end a few months later. Although he offered to connect the two so that Schafer could offer a private apology—which Schafer had done repeatedly to Toles at the time— Grüber-Pérez refused.
Grüber-Pérez, who is Puerto Rican, wrote that she had “a hard time believing that you are genuine in remorse. . . . I do not feel comfortable reaching out to a woman who publicly harassed me and my friend — simply because we are not white. This happened in public — and so I want a public apology.”
She then took the story to Post editors, and appeared to push it so forcefully that it resulted in the story which featured a portrait of Grüber-Pérez looking heroic. Then, after the story was universally greeted with disgust, the Post gave in to Grüber-Pérez&#8217;s demands that it unpublish the picture she had willingly posed for&#8211;while leaving up the picture of Schafer.
Even the leftist former Post reporter Wesley Lowery, who left the paper over his self-professed desire to conduct less objective journalism, was appalled by the over-the-top cancellation.
“Giving a massive amount of attention to a dumb incident involving private citizens would invariably do negligible good and cause massive amounts of harm,” he told New York magazine.
The left-leaning magazine was shocked by the cruelty of using a major newspaper to attack a repentant, liberal, private figure for a years-old petty offense.
“The Post twice violated its own editorial policy in an apparent effort to appease Gruber and Prince: reporting on the incident even though the resulting story violated the Post’s editorial standard about relevance, then removing an editorial component of the story in violation of the Post’s editorial standard about take-down requests,” it wrote in an article titled <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/why-did-the-washington-post-get-this-woman-fired.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did The Washington Post Get This Woman Fired?</a>.
Prince refers to Lyric Prince, a friend of Grüber-Pérez’s who is a black woman who is more than six feet tall but said she felt “unsafe” because of Schafer, and described Schafer as bullying her even though witnesses said they only saw Schafer on the receiving end of screams and insults. Ironically, Prince later lost her job for <a class="c-link" href="https://medium.com/@elpeanote/why-im-in-therapy-is-how-i-got-cancelled-a47112971892" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://medium.com/@elpeanote/why-im-in-therapy-is-how-i-got-cancelled-a47112971892" data-sk="tooltip_parent">calling someone a “fag”</a> in the company of a transgender person, according to her blog.
Grüber-Pérez, who could not be reached for comment, has a track record of seemingly absurd cancellations. In college, she forced the <a href="https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/quinnipiac-student-starts-debate-over-offensive-philanthropy-poster/520-49b3de26-2bbe-4846-913d-3ed7499fb33a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancellation of a charity event raising money for orphans</a>, because she said that the Mexican food-themed fundraiser was cultural appropriation.
The Imprint suggested that the Biden administration position Grüber-Pérez held was funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA), a law which allows outside interests to pay people to work as government employees. HHS declined to describe the funding mechanism to the outlet. Casey is a big-dollar, far-left activist group.
In January, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_to_health_and_human_services_deptipaoversight.pdf">wrote</a> to HHS concerning possible abuses of IPA in HHS that could allow former Google CEO Eric Schmidt improper influence on government. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/eric-schmidt-joe-biden-administration-00074160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> reported last year that the “Ex-Google boss helps fund dozens of jobs in Biden’s administration,” suggesting that Schmidt could use the mechanism to embed his pet projects, such as artificial intelligence, in government.
Under the controversial law, local and state governments and nonprofits are permitted to fund federal positions under certain limited conditions. Grassley suggested that the Schmidt funding could exploit a loophole, with an LLC controlled by Schmidt using the nonprofit Federation of American Scientists (FAS) as a pass-through.
“Within the White House, officials have sometimes viewed FAS and Schmidt Futures interchangeably, as the dual vehicles for the funding of jobs,” Politico reported.
Casey is a nonprofit foundation funded by the estate of the UPS founder, so it is not serving as a pass-through for a corporation. But it is a radical leftist group, and the federal government allowing it to fund jobs raises the risk that partisan billionaires can essentially buy government&#8211;providing staff to tackle policy favored by the far-left that the federal government otherwise would not have undertaken.
Casey has long been the subject of significant political drama; the UPS founder entrusted his money to a conservative board for the purpose of building orphanages, but board members watched in shock as staff hijacked it for far-leftist purposes, and it was soon no longer running any orphanages at all.

Cancelled

Biden Admin Hired Activist Behind One Of The Cruelest Cancellations In History

Cancel Culture

Washington Post

Shareholders for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kellogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellogg</a> Company are scheduled to vote Friday on a proposal to audit the multinational food conglomerate’s adherence to the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI</a>, and return the company to hiring and promotion decisions based on merit.
The proposal, which the board of directors recommended that shareholders oppose, would launch an examination of the company’s DEI initiatives with an ideologically diverse and independent group of employees, shareholders, and third-party entities. The <a href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000055067/50efe15c-ba6d-41bb-851f-cb722470d7b9.pdf#page=74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">text</a> of the proposal noted that the Kellogg Company has “allocated significant resources and attention towards implementing social justice into workplace practices” through commitments to the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>.
“Across the political spectrum, all agree that employee success should be fostered and that no employees should face discrimination, but there is much disagreement about what nondiscrimination means,” the proposal said. “In practice, what ‘equity’ really means is the distribution of pay and authority on the basis of race, sex, orientation and ethnic categories rather than by merit.”
Increasing the percentage of females or racial minorities in corporate workforces are indeed objectives often pursued by firms with DEI initiatives or dedication to the ESG movement. Both philosophies have rapidly grown in prominence among leading companies in recent years, even as skeptics contend that they mingle political and social causes with core business objectives in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability.
The shareholder proposal, which called for a “return to merits,” noted that firms across a number of industries, from Verizon and Pfizer to American Express and CVS, have implemented similar policies despite the likelihood of overt discrimination against qualified staff members.
Executives at the Kellogg Company have <a href="https://betterdays.kelloggcompany.com/equity-diversity-inclusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> to achieve a global management team equally composed of men and women by the end of 2025 and ensure that one-quarter of American managers come from underrepresented racial groups over the same time horizon. Kellogg Company Chief Diversity Officer Samantha Thomas-Berry recently <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kellogg-company-moves-closer-to-achieving-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-goals-301792133.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauded</a> the firm’s progress toward the goals and asserted that executives will successfully impose “more balanced representation in our leadership.&#8221;
“Such programs have raised significant objections, including the concern that the programs and practices themselves are deeply racist, sexist, otherwise discriminatory, and potentially in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” the proposal continued. “By devaluing merit, corporations have sacrificed employee competence and morale, and therefore productivity, to the altar of ‘diversity.’ These practices create massive reputational, legal and financial risk.”
Increased tumult in the economy has increased skepticism toward the ESG movement among some managers and investors. ESG funds <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virtue-signaling-isnt-free-how-woke-investing-fell-apart-once-the-economy-got-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> amid last year’s underperformance among technology firms, which ESG investors tend to favor because of their emphasis on corporate social responsibility, and overperformance among energy companies, which ESG managers tend to shirk because of their dislike for industries with heavy carbon emissions.
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Americans are broadly skeptical of the ESG movement’s core assumptions and desire that the companies in which they invest abstain from forwarding ideological objectives favored by executives. An exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> conducted by The Daily Wire last year showed that 58% of respondents opposed companies leveraging their financial power for political or social means, an approach to company operations which 29% of respondents supported.

Kellogg’s

Kellogg Shareholders Will Vote On Auditing Company’s Diversity Initiatives And Returning ‘To Merits’

Kellogg Shareholders Will Vote On Auditing Company's Diversity Initiatives

Kelloggs

Stock Market

Wokeness

What&#8217;s the soundest way to ensure that racist &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thanks-to-biden-our-nations-top-science-research-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diversity, equity, and inclusion</a>&#8221; policies based on <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;q=critical+race+theory+daily+wire&amp;spell=1&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjN2qiIi8v-AhW_lGoFHeoRChYQBSgAegQIBxAB&amp;biw=1800&amp;bih=955&amp;dpr=1.6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> are eradicated from your government? Well, perhaps it is best done by putting somebody who loathes DEI with all his heart in your state&#8217;s Chief Diversity Officer slot.
It seems that is what Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin did with the appointment of Martin D. Brown last fall, and now, Brow is declaring that DEI has been put out to pasture.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s take a moment to kill that cow right now: DEI is dead,&#8221; Martin said last week while addressing the Virginia Military Insitute, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/04/27/vmi-dei-equity-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. &#8220;We’re not going to bring that cow up anymore. It’s dead. It was mandated by the General Assembly, but this governor has a different philosophy of civil discourse, civility, treating — living the golden rule, right?&#8221;
Youngkin believes in merit and keeping standards high for all Americans while helping disadvantaged U.S. citizens succeed to meet those expectations. Yet DEI advocates often encourage lowering standards, such as admissions processes, in order to promote diversity under the theory that the standards are biased and favor white Americans.
“VMI’s in a unique space,&#8221; Brown, a black Republican, told the war college. &#8220;You’ve been at the tip of the spear in serving our country in sending warriors to battle, but in a way, you’re at the tip of the spear in this cultural war as well.&#8221;
Alumni in recent months have become particularly organized and hostile to the school&#8217;s decision under a new superintendent to make DEI one of its main initiatives. But a VMI education is intended to prepare soldiers and leaders for war — not put woke projects ahead of excellence.
“Generally, when you are focusing on equity, you’re not pursuing merit or excellence or achievement,&#8221; Brown added. &#8220;Not all the time, but you’re looking at equal outcomes.&#8221;
Virginia&#8217;s Chief Diversity Officer blasted society for making &#8220;diversity&#8221; the mission.
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&#8220;The challenge is keeping your eyes on the mission rather than the attendant challenges that we experience trying to complete the mission,” Brown said. “And when we focus on those challenges, what happens is the mission is undermined. … One of the things we want to focus on is whatever the goal of the organization is, that goal is paramount, and diversity and inclusion supports whatever the goal is.”
Youngkin has previously scrubbed &#8220;equity&#8221; from other government agencies as well — especially the Department of Education.
“All Virginia students should have the opportunity to receive an excellent education that teaches all history — the good and the bad, prioritizes academic excellence, and fosters equal opportunities for all students,” Youngkin <a href="https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/02/25/youngkin-administration-ends-equity-initiatives-at-the-virginia-department-of-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2022. “Our Virginia students should not be taught to discriminate on the basis of sex, skin color, or religion, and VDOE policies should certainly not direct such concepts.”
Removing DEI mandates from society — and  their disastrous consequences that harm all Americans — is going to take years, but it helps when you have somebody like Martin who wants DEI dead on arrival leading the charge to root it out of society. Youngkin, of course, made battling the Left&#8217;s disastrous policies that degrade Virginia&#8217;s quality of education a core part of his 2021 campaign late into the game. It helped him win the gubernatorial office, and so far he has delivered as promised: Martin proves it.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Glenn Youngkin, Martin D. Brown

‘DEI Is Dead’: Glenn Youngkin’s Diversity Officer Nukes Woke Diktats

'DEI Is Dead': Glenn Youngkin's Diversity Officer Nukes Woke Diktats

Education

Glenn Youngkin

Politics

Virginia

Virginia Military Institute

Woke Culture

A federal civil rights commission meeting devolved into chaos last week as Democrats went to great lengths to block a study on whether crime disproportionately impacts minorities — and, by implication, whether soft-on-crime policies create a civil rights issue by subjecting poor blacks to high crime rates. 
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights consists of eight commissioners, four liberals and four conservatives. But Republicans say Democrats “double-crossed” them by breaking a deal they had made to vote for the report. 
“Frankly, the four of us feel like we were chumps, that we agreed to the anti-Asian briefing on the condition that we also have a crime victims” report, conservative commissioner Gail Heriot said Friday. 
“We were double-crossed, plain and simple,” Republican Commissioner Christian Adams added. The question of who suffers from crime is “an issue that has broad agreement is an important issue in the United States, and it is not a difficult lift,” he said. “I don’t think it&#8217;s even controversial.”
Democrats were so adamant in blocking the study on crime victims — which applies standard Democrat logic about any policy that results in “disproportionalities” being evidence of a policy’s racism — that two Democrats newly nominated to the commission by President Joe Biden refused to rectify the “double-crossing” by their predecessors even though they knew it meant their confirmation as chair and vice chair would be blocked.
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On <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qujdJmljA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friday</a>, the Commission voted not to confirm the people Biden nominated on April 6: Georgetown Law professor Victoria Nourse as vice chair and Rochelle Garza, a former Democrat candidate for Texas Attorney General, as chair.
In <a href="https://www.usccr.gov/files/2023-03/2022-11-18-usccr-business-meeting-transcript-unedited.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November</a>, Democrat commissioners attempted to derail a proposal — which Republicans said was written by their nonpartisan staff — to study who was hurt by crime in cities like New York.
Then-Chair Norma Cantu threw out a series of objections to it, ranging from comparing it to the Tuskegee Experiments — in which the U.S. let blacks die of syphilis — to expressing concern about the “Paperwork Reduction Act.”
The Commission has recently searched for racist policies as evidenced by “disproportionate” outcomes in a wide variety of arenas, from the “Civil Rights Implications of Disaster Relief” to “Racial Disparities in Maternal Health.” It has viewed it as its mission to invoke civil-rights protections for criminal offenders, like “The Civil Rights Implications of Cash Bail.”
But Heriot said she was told that “over my dead body will we even look into the increase in crime” as it relates to whether minorities are disproportionately crime victims.
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<h1>“I’m Staff Director Morales. You may not like me, but please respect the office,” he ordered Adams.</h1>
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Shortly after reneging on their word to hold a vote on approving the crime victims report, the four Democrats rotated off the commission, their six-year terms having come to an end. They were replaced with four new Democrats, but under the law, the nominees for chair and vice chair can only assume those titles if a majority of the commission consents.
With no chair in place, a staff member who is supposed to simply work for the commissioners improperly “usurped” control to advance a Democrat agenda in the otherwise evenly-divided body, Republicans said. Mauro Morales, a former Obama administration official, is staff director of the commission and is tasked with carrying out the will of the commissioners. 
Morales declined to place a vote on the crime victims study on the agenda for Friday’s meeting, while insisting that the commission vote to confirm the chair and vice chair. 
Though he began the meeting by saying “I am not substantively participating in this meeting, but because of the current absence of a chair and vice chair, I will be administering it pursuant to our administrative functions,” he was soon barking orders at Republican commissioners.
“I’m Staff Director Morales. You may not like me, but please respect the office,” he ordered Adams.
“Turn off your mic,” he told Heriot. “You can answer when I’m finished.” 
Morales said he had the authority to set the agenda because “Under our statute, the chair and the staff director create the agenda for the commission.”
But the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/701.11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statute</a> actually says that “The Chairperson, after consulting with the Staff Director, shall establish the agenda.”
“The staff director is not authorized to establish the agenda, and nobody is authorized to say look we’re going to shove this down your throat,” Heriot said of the confirmation vote.
Republicans said that under the commission’s practices, in the absence of a confirmed chair, the most senior member serves as acting chair — which in this case would be Pete Kirsanow, a Republican.
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Kirsanow lambasted Morales for commandeering the meeting. “Mr. Staff Director! On what authority are you directing Commissioner Heriot to vote?” he exclaimed. “You are staff director. Not the commission director!”
Morales told her she could negotiate over the crime victims report after confirming the chair, though Heriot noted “this is the only time we have leverage” and Nourse indicated that she would oppose the report.
Democrats and Morales repeatedly used parliamentary tactics to try to block a vote on the crime victims report and force a confirmation vote, with Nourse repeatedly lecturing that she was a <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/victoria-nourse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law professor</a> who was close with Biden, contending that “my intern” was the associate Attorney General, and suggesting that the “Constitution” meant that Republicans had to vote for her. When Heriot asked for her to elaborate, she threw her arms up in a shrug. 
“It’s no secret that I worked for the president in the White House when he was VP as his chief lawyer,” she said. “I know the folks in the White House are watching. There’s a reason they asked me to be here.”
After it was clear that Democrats were refusing to approve the crime victims vote even though it meant Republicans would not confirm them, Republicans tried to end the meeting to spare them the “embarrassment” of rejecting their confirmation. 
&#8220;This is an example of how the Republican members have been accommodating over and over,&#8221; Adams said.
“If we reject these nominations, which I think is what we’re going to have to do, the White House is going to have to do that all again,” Heriot said.
But Garza forced them to vote, with Morales exclaiming “Just vote!”
The confirmations of Garza and Nourse were voted down, but the report examining whether poor minorities bear the brunt of policies like those espoused by billionaire George Soros’ favored district attorneys also remained shelved.

Victoria Nourse and Rochelle Garza / US Commission on Civil Rights

Biden Nominees Torpedo Own Confirmation To Kill Report On Whether Lax Crime Policies Hurt Minorities

Biden Nominees Torpedo Own Confirmation To Kill Report Showing Whether Lax Crime Policies Hurt Minorities

Civil Rights

Crime

Joe Biden

The Stanford Law diversity dean who helped protesters shut down a speech by a conservative judge comes from a privileged family and is following in the footsteps of her mother &#8211;who once ran training sessions that accused Buddhists of being &#8220;too white.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reported this week that Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirian Steinbach spoke last year at a “grieving session” for a transgender student who committed suicide and then turned the floor over to her mother, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-stanford-laws-diversity-dean-protesters-poached-their-trans-martyr-from-federalist-society" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared the student favorably to 9/11 hijackers</a>, claiming that neither felt listened to.
Steinbach’s mother is Sala Steinbach, who was originally Marilyn Steinbach but took the alternate name after embracing Buddhism in the 1990s, and quickly began running radical Critical Race Theory sessions that posited that western Buddhism was too white and full of racists.
The dean’s father is Alan Steinbach, a chemistry professor who held a prestigious position at the Marine Biological Laboratory just off of Martha’s Vineyard, where a pleasure boat was registered in Sala’s name, according to public records reviewed by The Daily Wire.
He inherited that position from his father, Henry Burr Steinbach, a University of Chicago professor who led the laboratory in addition to being assistant director of the National Science Foundation, director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and president of the American Society of Zoologists and the Society for General Physiologists, according to his obituary in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/24/obituaries/henry-b-steinbach-professor-of-biology-and-director-of-lab.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>.
When she was known as Marilyn, Steinbach&#8217;s mother lived a charmed live, <a href="https://academeblog.org/2018/01/14/mlk-j-b-s-call-and-the-march-for-jobs-and-freedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cavorting in Paris</a> as a young woman who aspired to be a dancer. In 1963, she went to a Paris cafe where she later described people “sitting around drinking café lattes and discussing the March on Washington” and decided to go back to America to listen to Martin Luther King’s speech. She went to Skidmore College and joined the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). She met her husband when he placed a call from his graduate school looking for a way to transport busloads of students to a protest of the Vietnam war, Tirien wrote in 2018.
Sala’s maritime life off of Martha’s Vineyard instilled in her a love of nature, which then led her to Buddhism.
“My spiritual home is Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. It’s a place with deep dharma practice, beautiful gardens, acres of flowers and vegetables,” she <a href="https://archive.ph/d7rOw">wrote</a> in 1996.
But there was also a problem: Like her daughter, Buddhists in America were mostly white.
“As an institution, Green Gulch is passionately involved with ecology. The people there are, with some exceptions, European Americans. I want them to care for and work for the health and beauty and safety of human diversity as passionately as they do for biodiversity,” she wrote.
<div id="attachment_537361" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-537361" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-537361" src="https://dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/alan-steinbach-300x194.png" alt="Alan Steinbach, father of Stanford Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach. Marine Biological Laboratory screenshot" width="300" height="194" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/alan-steinbach-300x194.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/alan-steinbach-891x576.png 891w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/alan-steinbach-768x496.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/alan-steinbach-1536x993.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/alan-steinbach-2048x1324.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Alan Steinbach, the father of Stanford Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach. Marine Biological Laboratory screenshot</div>
She began running hardcore Critical Race Theory exercises on San Francisco Buddhists, ordering them to stand on opposite corners of the room depending on their identity politics group, and then hurl out invectives against the others, asking questions like, “When you were a child, what were you told about the group across from you? &#8230; What are some of the names used to refer to that other group?”
She teamed up with a white Buddhist to work on an anti-racist project, before accusing that woman of being a racist. “You and I are in deep trouble… You don’t know the power of ‘Whiteness,’” Sala <a href="https://inquiringmind.com/article/1202_14_gates_alchemy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Barbara Gates, her would-be collaborator, Gates wrote. “I don’t want to be alone in these conversations in case someone—probably in all innocence—expresses unexamined racism that might be hurtful to me.”
When Dean Steinbach brought her mother to an event marking the life of a transgender student who had committed suicide, Sala drew on her Buddhist beliefs, saying a monk had told her the day after the September 11, 2001 attacks that “I don’t know what those men were thinking, but I know that no one was listening to them, or at least they felt that way,” and that the same applied to the student, according to Federalist Society chapter president Tim Rosenberg, who attended the event. The transgender student was in fact a member of the conservative group, but the dean later sided with students protesting it, purportedly for being a threat to transgender lives.
Like her mother, Dean Steinbach combined her privilege and tantial grip on an “oppressed” identity to make a career out of calling out hidden bigotry in the most unlikely of places—in her case, the elite campus of America’s top-ranked law school, in uber-liberal Palo Alto.
Despite only one of her four grandparents being fully black, the dean’s diversity job resting on a resume that included serving as vice president of the Law Students of African Descent. “In 2017, she launched the Coalition for Equity and Inclusion in Law (CCEIL), a Bay Area regional cohort of law and policy organizations dedicated to advancing greater cultural equity, inclusion, and diversity in the sector,” her Stanford <a href="https://law.stanford.edu/directory/tirien-steinbach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography</a> says.
Fighting for the oppressed was lucrative work. In the year ending March 2021, she made $253,000 for working 38 hours a week as the chief program officer for the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Northern California, according to <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/940279770/202230319349301623/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tax filings</a>. Three months later, she took the job at Stanford, which presumably came with a pay increase.
Steinbach did not return a request for comment.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-stanford-laws-diversity-dean-protesters-poached-their-trans-martyr-from-federalist-society">How Stanford Law’s ‘Diversity Dean,’ Protesters Poached Their Trans Martyr From Federalist Society</a>
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Stanford Law’s ‘Diversity Dean’ Who Lectured Judge Grew Up In Wealth, Privilege

Stanford Law's 'Diversity Dean' Who Lectured Judge Grew Up In Wealth, Privilege

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Stanford University

When Stanford Law <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-traumatized-students-can-seek-mental-health-support-from-dean-who-ruined-judges-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protesters</a> accused the school&#8217;s Federalist Society chapter last month of putting LGBTQ lives in danger by inviting a conservative judge to speak, they cited the suicide of a transgender classmate last year. What they didn&#8217;t mention was that the student they held up as a martyr was a member of the conservative group and counted many fellow members as friends.
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach infamously took protesters’ side, telling Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan that he posed “harm” to trans people. But Steinbach was well aware that Dylan Simmons, Stanford’s most visible, and now deceased, transgender law student, had been a member of the conservative group she demonized, the law school&#8217;s Federalist Society President Tim Rosenberger told The Daily Wire.
Simmons <a href="https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/dylan-simmons-js-22-ba-ma-17-1994-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> January 20, 2022 after becoming isolated and depressed during coronavirus lockdowns, Rosenberger said. Born a female in China and then adopted by a family in Texas, Simmons began identifying as a male at age 20 and majored in gender studies. As a law student, Simmons was active in identity politics groups, but also held conservative views.
After Simmons&#8217; death, Steinbach &#8220;was the main driver&#8221; in planning a “grieving session” that devolved into a left-wing rally in which Steinbach’s mother likened the dead student to the September 11 hijackers, Rosenberger said.
More than a year later, during the March 9 Federalist Society event with Duncan, leftist students attacked conservative jurisprudence as a threat to LGBTQ people and brandished signs accusing the society of causing trans suicide. To people outside of Stanford, it was a standard accusation of “transphobia” made against conservatives. But to Simmons&#8217; Federalist Society friends, it took on a sinister brazenness.
“Certainly the implication was that we were responsible” for their member&#8217;s death, said Rosenberger, who himself is openly gay.
On April 9, a month after the protest, OutLaw—a group of radical gender activists at the law school—released a statement attempting to justify its disruption of the event.
“We must say aloud what so many have failed to recognize: Our community is still healing from the loss of Dylan Simmons, one of our most beloved and most visible trans members, last year,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;This grief runs deep. Healing is not linear. And our wounds are opened again and again as our community weathers relentless attacks on our lives.”
Members of OutLaw may not have known much about Simmons, who once gifted the Federalist Society chapter an autographed copy of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s autobiography. Records provided to The Daily Wire by the national Federalist Society group show that Simmons paid dues on January 7, 2021.
But Steinbach was very familiar with Simmons&#8217; sad saga. Although she had only been working at the law school for <a href="https://law.stanford.edu/press/tirien-angela-steinbach-joins-stanford-law-school-as-associate-dean-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about 6 months </a>when Simmons died, she played a key role in planning the “grieving session” for Simmons, Rosenberger said.  The session was initially to take place during a meeting of the Federalist Society, prompting Rosenberger to ask that it be rescheduled.
Steinbach claimed to have been close to Simmons—though she also seemed to know little about the student&#8217;s religious or political views, Rosenberger said. The service she planned took several bizarre twists, some which seemed to underscore that its real purpose was to push leftist politics, not mark a life lost.
Rosenberger recalled a black preacher who was invited to give Simmons&#8217; eulogy telling mourners that &#8220;we don&#8217;t know&#8221; what Simmons thought of the afterlife, then recommending they read a book called &#8220;Grieving While Black&#8221;&#8211;even though none of the students in attendance were black.
“Dylan was a confirmed member of the Methodist church. What he thought of the afterlife wasn’t some unknowable fact,” Rosenberger said.
The strangest moment, according to Rosenberger, came when Steinbach told the gathering she was &#8220;so overcome with grief that I can barely function, so I asked my mom to come with me and say a few words.&#8221;
Steinbach’s mother acknowledged never having met Simmons, but said that, &#8220;I feel like I knew him because my daughter was so close to him,&#8221; Rosenberger said.
She said she had been thinking about Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk who was exiled from Vietnam after refusing to choose sides in the war against communism and who went on to found monasteries and retreats in the West, including in Berkeley, California. According to Rosenberg, she said she spoke to Hanh on September 12, 2001, the day after terrorists killed 3,000 Americans, “and he said ‘I don’t know what those men were thinking, but I know that no one was listening to them, or at least they felt that way.’”
The session did not lessen Rosenberger’s grief.
“So she’s comparing Dylan to the 9/11 hijackers? And favorably?” he said. “Now I was sort of pissed off.”
Neither Steinbach nor her mother returned requests for comment.
The fact that Simmons, who at the time may have been Stanford Law’s only openly transgender student, was a member of the conservative group “was sort of scrubbed” to advance identity politics, he said.
<div id="attachment_537405" style="width: 236px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-537405" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-537405" src="https://dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/fedsoc-flier-226x300.png" alt="A flier posted on Stanford Law's campus by the group Outlaw. Courtesy the Federalist Society" width="226" height="300" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/fedsoc-flier-226x300.png 226w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/fedsoc-flier-435x576.png 435w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/fedsoc-flier-768x1018.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/04/fedsoc-flier.png 1026w" sizes="(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px" />A flier posted on Stanford Law&#8217;s campus by the group Outlaw. Courtesy the Federalist Society</div>
Last month&#8217;s incident involving Judge Duncan catapulted Steinbach into international headlines. Stanford’s president and law school dean later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-president-law-school-dean-apologize-to-judge-after-verbal-assault-on-campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized</a> to Duncan and placed Steinbach on leave, but Steinbach penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal without permission that doubled down on her rhetoric.
In the April 9 statement from OutLaw, the radical activist group expressed &#8220;our profound gratitude for a community leader who has done more than any other to make this place safe and accepting: Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach.&#8221;
Read Part 2,<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-laws-diversity-dean-who-lectured-judge-grew-up-in-wealth-privilege"> Stanford Law&#8217;s &#8216;Diversity Dean&#8217; Who Lectured Judge Grew Up In Wealth, Privilege,</a> to hear how in between boating off Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, the dean’s mom ran struggle sessions accusing Buddhism of being too white.

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirian Steinbach. Center for Ethics and Public Policy screenshot

How Stanford Law’s ‘Diversity Dean,’ Protesters Poached Their Trans Martyr From Federalist Society

How Stanford Law's 'Diversity Dean,' Protesters Poached Their Trans Martyr From Federalist Society

Censorship

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown</a> University President Christina Paxson likened the passage of bills meant to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI</a>, to the suppression of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, despite the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racial-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discrimination</a> which such programs routinely induce.
Paxson wrote in a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> for The New York Times that the nation is facing a “fundamental threat” as state lawmakers move to limit public funding for DEI initiatives. The administrator noted that Galilei was forced to renounce his “false opinion” that the Earth circles the sun in 1633 due to “the prevailing beliefs” of the Roman Catholic Church; she also cited the prohibition of Charles Darwin’s work from Trinity College Cambridge in 1859 and the “loyalty hearings” in the 1950s under former Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
“‌The mistakes of the past are being repeated in this country, right now,” Paxson wrote. “The State Senate in Texas last week advanced one of three bills aimed at public colleges that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion activities, end tenure, and fire professors accused of indoctrinating their students. Several states, including Georgia, Idaho and most notably Florida, have passed varying laws making it easier to ban books and limit what American educators can teach.”
The statutes referenced by the administrator indeed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-college-bureaucrats-significantly-misreported-diversity-initiatives-when-pressed-by-desantis-his-office-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restricted</a> funds for DEI initiatives, which have often been accused of fomenting division and limiting viewpoint diversity while entrenching a Left-of-center orthodoxy on college campuses. The condemnation of efforts to “ban books” appears to reference recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/library-group-frames-removal-of-graphic-sexual-content-from-school-libraries-as-record-number-of-book-bans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">orders</a> to remove sexually explicit and pornographic materials, some of which include graphic depictions of how children can masturbate and cartoons of children engaged in homosexual activity, in elementary school libraries.
“Like their forebears, the proponents of these laws are on the wrong side of history. They are acting out of political expediency, ‌exploiting convenient political wedge issues,” Paxson added. “They are mounting a direct and dangerous attack on America’s longstanding commitment to free expression, democracy and education. Legislating toward a future where the state decrees what ideas may be taught and debated upends a bedrock principle of this country.”
DEI initiatives at Brown, a private institution based in Providence, Rhode Island, which maintains a reputation as the most Left-leaning of the eight Ivy League schools, have discriminated against students according to their race. Beyond a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-university-infused-diversity-and-inclusion-into-hundreds-of-courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commitment</a> to “increase the representation” of black students, Brown administrators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-university-barred-white-asian-students-from-new-class" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restricted</a> a class on mindfulness-based stress reduction to students who identify as black, indigenous, or Latino.
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Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who sparked the nationwide efforts to limit DEI initiatives, <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1650767880223354880?s=51" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> that Paxson’s views are easily falsified. “DEI does not cultivate genius; it stamps out genius,” he wrote on social media. “Galileo himself would be punished as a straight, white male.”
Despite the claims from Paxson about the “state-sponsored censorship” academics face in some parts of the country, administrators who subscribe to the DEI movement have frequently sought to sanction or dismiss professors for their views. Charles Negy, an associate psychology professor at the University of Central Florida, was fired and later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ucf-professor-fired-after-tweets-questioning-black-lives-matter-narrative-must-be-reinstated-receive-back-pay-arbitrator-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> after he disagreed with the assumptions of the Black Lives Matter movement, while Coastal Carolina University theater professor Steven Earnest faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theater-professor-reinstated-after-school-suspended-him-for-criticizing-students-who-cried-racism-after-seeing-names-on-a-white-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">termination</a> after he criticized students who mistakenly accused him of racism after seeing the names of minority students written on his whiteboard.

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