The Coast Guard Academy’s Newest DEI Push
Bureau of Engraving and Printing., Wikimedia Commons
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Michael R. Shevock
Real Clear Wire
DEI is a bad idea. It is divisive, racist, and anti-meritocratic. Coleman Hughes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Elon Musk, and a host of other first-rate minds have vigorously come out against it. Yet, our Coast Guard leadership continues to promote it without discussion or debate. For an objective observer, that should be the first clue that something is very, very wrong.
Supporters of this ideology are fond of the term ‘cultural competence,’ which they seem to believe is obtainable in a seminar or a classroom,