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The book argued that many cultural issues conservatives were upset about, such as disparate impact and limitations on criticizing certain topics, were actually baked into federal civil rights law through judicial interpretation and executive action following the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The author stated that this work eventually turned into the book, which focused on a policy agenda conservatives could pursue against what they called DEI or wokeness.
I had an article which eventually turned into my book, The Origins of Vogue, which argued that a lot of the cultural issues that conservatives were mad about, a lot of the ideas about disparate impact...
— Episode: The man who helped kill DEI
Episode: The man who helped kill DEI
The book argued that many cultural issues conservatives were upset about, such as disparate impact and limitations on criticizing certain topics, were actually baked into federal civil rights law through judicial interpretation and executive action following the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The author stated that this work eventually turned into the book, which focused on a policy agenda conservatives could pursue against what they called DEI or wokeness.
I had an article which eventually turned into my book, The Origins of Vogue, which argued that a lot of the cultural issues that conservatives were mad about, a lot of the ideas about disparate impact, a lot of the ideas that, you know, you couldn't be hard on crime because it has an impact on one group of people more than the other group of people, or you couldn't have standardized tests and so forth.
And my argument was, like, there is a policy agenda here that you can focus on.