As we’ve covered here in the last couple days, Trump’s executive order on DEI ordered the suspension of DEI employees and the closing of their offices. He also included a plan to keep these offices from simply rebranding under a different name and carrying on as usual. That was smart because rebranding is how many academic DEI offices have tried to get by laws aimed at them in the recent past.
While Trump’s executive order is aimed at government employees, it is also a warning to their corporate counterparts.
“These actions freeze DEI operations in the federal government with the anticipation of the end of such programs,” said Jonathan Butcher, a senior research fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.
“Corporations,” he said, “should recognize that racial discrimination and racial preferences will no longer go unchallenged by…
