Americans would struggle to find a college campus or corporate board room that doesn’t emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion.

These three terms have taken corporate America and academia by storm. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” is no longer just a tagline; it has become a career. Universities employ full-time diversity and inclusion offices, as do many corporations. The foundational narrative of these initiatives is that diversity, equity, and inclusion work in tandem to produce the same outcome. To have equity, you must have both diversity and inclusion.

DEI initiatives thrive because they’re rarely scrutinized. As Thomas Paine said at the beginning of Common Sense, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” But it doesn’t take much effort to realize that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not cohesive ideals. Without inequity, true diversity is impossible.

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