MSNBC Legal Analyst Charles Coleman Jr. lamented pushback against DEI in education and business during the May 26 edition of Velshi. Coleman ignored the discriminatory, racist and anti-Semitic nature of DEI and instead mourned that DEI would be replaced with equality and non-discrimination at North Carolina public universities. ...

That is precisely what DEI means. It is racial discrimination in hiring and admissions rather than simply choosing the most qualified candidate or applicant. Even the liberal media has occasionally acknowledged this. A report by Bloomberg News, owned by leftist billionaire Michael Bloomberg, laid out how this worked in 2021. According to the media outlet, a mere 6 percent of jobs at major companies they analyzed went to white individuals in 2021. Simultaneously, white people made up 68.5% of layoffs at studied companies that shrank in 2021. 

DEI has also been condemned as a source of anti-Semitism by a number of voices, including by a former DEI director at De Anza College, Tabia Lee. Lee said that she may have been fired for pushing back against anti-Semitism on campus and relayed this disturbing anecdote: “I was told in no uncertain terms that Jews are ‘white oppressors’ and our job as faculty and staff members was to ‘decenter whiteness.’”