Comedian and radio host Charlamagne tha God caught flak online earlier this week after criticizing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, calling them “mostly garbage” and ineffective.
The well-known pundit isn't afraid to speak his mind on hot-button issues, often criticizing members and policies of his own Democrat party. Charlamagne tha God openly slammed the woke DEI police while guest hosting “The Daily Show” on Wednesday.
“DEI. It means more fair hiring policies, new anti-discrimination rules for the workplace and sensitivity training seminars. And the first thing it led to was a shitload of ads,” Charlamagne began as a supercut of corporate ads championing DEI ran.
After the clips, Charlamagne joked, “Ask your doctor if Black people are right for you. Nobody's buying Vaseline because of diversity.”
The comedian went on to say that DEI programs have shifted over the years and are now more likely to stoke more division than improve experiences for minorities.
“Today when people talk about DEI. It's more likely to sound like this,” he continued before playing another supercut, this time of right-wing opinion hosts slamming the policies.
“DEI is just a rebranded version of, hating white people,” said Fox's Jeanine Pirro, followed by Laura Ingraham who declared, “DEI, in this case stands for divisive, erroneous and insidious.”
“DEI, which stands for didn't earn it, discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination,” added Greg Gutfeld.
“Hey, the DEI stands for Doctor Dre, Eazy-E and Ice Cube. Yeah yeah yeah. Y'all cheered out there. But do you want that attitude coming to your office? These right wingers are crazy, right? Jesus. But here's the part where you all stop applauding everything I say,” Charlamagne said, adding:
The truth about DEI is that although it's well-intentioned, it's mostly garbage. Okay? It's kind of like the black Little Mermaid. Just because racists hate it, doesn't mean it's good. And you know I'm right because every one of you has sat through one of those diversity training sessions and thought, this is bullshit. And it's not just you. Over 900 studies have shown that DEI programs don't make the workplace better for minorities. In fact, it can actually make things worse because of the backlash effect.
Remember DARE from school? Y'all remember DARE? Yeah. Oh, she said who did die? Training is like DARE for racism. And and you all know how effective that was. I was sitting there going, oh, shit, there's a ton of fun drugs I should try. I didn't even know about Molly. Thanks, officer John, what the biggest failure of DEI is that the number of black people in power at big companies is basically the same as it was five years ago. In fact, maybe the only thing that DEI has accomplished is giving racist white people cover to be openly racist.
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