WND’s Brown Serves Up Anti-DEI Rant

Last year, WorldNetDaily columnist Michael Brown had a meltdown over seeing too many images of interracial couples in Google searches. He waded into racial matters again in his Jan. 24 column, weighing in on an argument over diversity in employment between Elon Musk and Mark Cuban (Cuban is for diversity, Musk is not). Unsurprisingly, Brown went on a right-wing anti-DEI rant:

You do your best to hire the person best suited for the job, and if your racial or ethnic biases preclude you from doing that, then you must overcome those and make the best hire.

So, if DEI simply helped expand the pool of potential workers, that would be great. But when it imposes a system that forces you to hire someone who is not as well-qualified as someone else, you now engage in a process that is both discriminatory and destructive.

Brown offered no evidence that DEI polices are “discriminatory and destructive.” Instead, he seems to be making the same assumption other anti-DEI opponents make: that any non-white person holding a job is a “diversity hire” and cannot possibly be as qualified as a white person. He then made the lazy argument about DEI not being used on sports teams (ignoring that professional sports have a history of discriminating against non-white players, and that most jobs are not like professional sports). Then came more lazy arguing:

If Black American athletes dominate the NBA and NFL it’s because they’re the best at what they do – not because someone decided that the league needed to be less White.

In fact, the reason we have seen more and more elite Black quarterbacks in the NFL in recent years – to cite one example – is because discrimination against Black quarterbacks has been largely removed.

In the past, certain positions, such as quarterback or center, were considered “thinking” positions. And since there was a tacit (or explicit) thought that Black athletes might be more physically gifted but less intellectually gifted, they weren’t recruited for the “thinking” positions as much as White athletes. With that stigma largely removed (or, in many circles, entirely removed), the playing field has been leveled.

This, then, illustrates where addressing discriminatory prejudices is essential. But when it comes to quotas and DEI standards that cause organizations to hire less than the very best, it is a train wreck.

That’s why Mark Cuban, along with a host of other left-leaning sports team owners, would never dream of imposing DEI where it matters most: putting together a winning team.

Not a chance.

Again, Brown offered no evidence to back up his apparent assumption that non-white people are not qualified for the jobs they hold solely because of the existence of DEI policies.