What is the opposite of diversity, equity, and inclusion? Whites-only communities, whites-only jobs, and racial segregation... As one of Georgia's most high-profile racists (a high bar in that state), Marjorie Taylor Greene has a reputation to uphold. Which is probably why this week she posted an attack on the Blackrock investment firm for having DEI or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs at that company.
"Corporate communists believe they have to force behaviors," Greene wrote on her Xitter feed. "They only need to remember as a corporation or business their ONLY job is to SERVE THEIR CUSTOMER with the best job possible to make their customers happy! It's not about gender, sex, race and blah blah blah."
In this, Greene is channeling centuries of racist rhetoric that argued it was inappropriate for government or companies to have any concerns about racial fairness or equity. After all, the white customers of Georgia's segregated 1960s lunch counters were "happy!" What else is necessary?
There's a reason why America's white supremacist Republican politicians like Greene and Stefanik are pushing so hard to get rid of DEI and to fire Black people in academia and the Pentagon: it wins them votes. From the geriatric Fox "News" followers, to white nationalist militias, to the preachers in all-white evangelical churches, the browning of America has provoked a collective freak-out.
