The withdrawing of diversity quotas

Tactical retreat or the real thing?

Thanks to the recent changing of the guard at the White House, diversity initiatives are going away.

Some say this is a real victory, a genuine dismantling of the anti-white animus of modern America and the West generally.

Others claim it is a tactical retreat. The ruling class don’t care what colour or gender their cattle are, so it was easy to sacrifice woke causes to ensure white men would enrol in their future wars nonwhites would sensibly avoid.

It certainly seems real enough. Many corporations have seen the writing on the wall and announced the end of their diversity practices. It is suggested others are quietly shutting down the discriminatory apparatus without fanfare, tired of the overhead and happy to finally kill it off.

So, is it a tactical retreat on behalf of our rulers who had to make concessions to Trump, or a real shift in culture?

In a sense both views can be correct.

Globalist elites care little for today’s great causes. They are retained if useful, discarded if not. Examples include climate initiatives, the promotion of gay or trans agendas, and the elevation of women. Our rulers remain unmoved by obsessions they inculcate in the masses.

The fact that some can be made to care for these novel things is useful to their plans. Gullibility has always been exploited by the ruthless.

It is the utility of an initiative that ensures survival. We are encouraged to fight battles over racial discrimination, women in leadership positions or who uses what bathrooms, ensuring we lose focus on the activities of the powerful.

Divide and conquer is an old strategy and it works.

It would certainly be ludicrous to imagine distant billionaires concerned about the rights of women and immigrants or agonizing over unearned privilege of which they tend to be the supreme exemplars.

A more cynical assessment is safer. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) was becoming a costly indulgence. Western nations collapse without white men working hard and they get invaded when patriots bow out of society.

It was also embarrassing them overseas. The non-Western world has comprehensively rejected Liberalism in all its forms, but especially its late-stage psychotic version. They laugh at multiculturalism, the promotion of homosexuality and special attention for women.

Therefore rolling back some inconvenient cultural weapons would have been an easy decision to make.

They are almost certainly making a calculation. Conceding to Trump’s user base is a small price to pay to bring him to heel. But equally these things have a real-world effect whatever their intentions.

It is important we remember globalist elites operate through imperfect mechanisms they do not fully control. They are not omnipotent.

Their minions are often not Machiavellian geniuses; quite the opposite.

To pick a famous example, HR departments are stocked with lukewarm IQ university graduates absolutely convinced they are foot soldiers in an important rebalancing of history, mainly because that’s what they have been told they are.

They already believe Trump is Genghis Hitler, so his commands will only reinforce their perception of themselves as important, a bastion of resistance in a world needing righted.

The ruling class must operate through thick layers of the chronically limited. We are frustrated when we encounter them ourselves and experience an inkling of their mental shortcomings, but imagine trying to be some kind of global Stalin and working with such hopeless material.

People enthusiastically embracing notions like climate catastrophe or unconscious bias run the risk of becoming campaigning fanatics rather than the detached managers actually needed to make the Regime function.

We see this often, and it tends to backfire as ordinary people start to pay a little too much attention to things others would prefer we overlooked. Local councils making absurd announcements about historical racism or climate change are a typical example.

It is therefore questionable whether orders from ruling elites will have much effect since after years of progressive control diversity obsessives are firmly entrenched in many key positions.

Resistance from HR Karens, which we already see, will only further erode trust in institutions the elites still rely on. The police and the army, the various offshoots of government, the political world, the media circus, all are required for their plans.

They never fully control people’s minds despite how it looks, not even the enthusiasts. Things slip through the cracks. Big culture shifts like this get people thinking. That is the part to understand and build upon.

Some out there are watching, learning even the most established cultural ideas can be overturned seemingly quickly. So what about mass immigration, radical feminism and the promotion of gay rainbow communism? These define much of our modern existence. We can surely turn all those around too.

Things are changing and we see early signs many have been sick of it for some time and are gleefully dismantling the apparatus to enforce quotas.

Importantly the topic is discussed more openly than it has been. Cancel culture is being jettisoned along with the rest.

The hard Left are losing the fear advantage that has helped them dominate so much. What happens when no one cares if they are accused of sexism or racism? This would be a significant change for Western nations obsessed with invented rights.

There is reason for optimism then. Not because we have the right man at the top, we almost certainly do not. But because with each move on the board we learn Power must work through the structures in society that already exist. They do not operate in a vacuum.

Parliaments, corporations and NGOs are three visible weapons many of us despair of as we witness their decline. These are populated by people, many of whom are not part of any agenda.

The world the ruling elites want cannot be so easily created no matter how much cash they have.

That is why Trump and Vance do matter, even if they are never going to be saviours. They have knocked over the first few dominoes along with Musk and others, and it will take time for the effects to be felt. Some of these will have unexpected consequences.

But something will happen, and the ripple will inevitably be felt throughout the West despite resistance from progressives.

We have cause for hope, even if the motives of the new guard are questionable or not aligned with our own ambitions.

Our nations are not so easy to steer as the ruling class believe, so they may struggle to rein things back in after some superficial changes if that is their gameplan.

We must take our victories where we can find them then build on the effect. That is better than waiting for others to save us.

The visible trashing of DEI initiatives along with related progressive ideas is the first step on a long road. Our job is to keep the momentum going and ensure this nonsense never comes back.

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