Hijinx
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Incoming Trump Administration
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Speaking with Erik Torenberg on the Moment of Zen podcast, billionaire investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen recently speculated how the incoming Trump Administration could be planning to rapidly drive a stake into the beating heart of corporate DEI and kill it for good.
CLIP: Marc Andreessen speculates about the Harmeet effect at DOJ (3:31).
The possibility arises because Trump appointed long-time California covid lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to head the DOJ’s civil rights division. "If you wanted to pick the most extreme possible attorney to put in charge of the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department to reverse DEI,” Marc noted on the podcast, “it would be this lawyer named Harmeet Dhillon.”
The instant I heard it, I realized Marc was one hundred percent right. For years, Harmeet has been suing over wokeness and jabs. She came up as a superlawyer in the authoritarian pressure cooker of California and its virtue-signaling corporate culture. Soon she will occupy one of the most influential legal jobs in the country.
It’s Revenge of the Nerds Part III.
Marc correctly explained that “the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department is the federal government’s prosecutorial arm that basically enforces wokeness. They’re the ones who have made sure that, for the last decade, these companies have had all these crazy policies under the penalty of being investigated, subpoenaed, and ultimately prosecuted.”
The billionaire gave an example: “the Civil Rights division sued SpaceX for not hiring enough refugees—despite the fact that SpaceX is a military contractor and is not permitted to hire non-American citizens under a separate law.”
That kind of silliness should quickly stop. But as Marc correctly pointed out, given her background, Harmeet is likely to “do a 180” and “begin prosecuting companies for violations of civil rights laws in the form of reverse discrimination—discrimination against white people, Asians, Jews, and other unprotected classes.”
Woke DEI policies are legal low-hanging fruit for real civil rights prosecution. The policies are de facto discriminatory in just about every conceivable way: race, gender, religion, you name it.
Call it the Harmeet effect. Marc thinks many companies are already getting the message, just from the fact of Harmeet’s appointment. Thanks to anti-DEI activists like Robby Starbuck, woke corporate policies have been culturally suspect for most of 2024. Add the threat of a DOJ criminal investigation and things may start shifting rapidly back toward normal.
Marc also noted the academy sits in Harmeet’s crosshairs, too. Universities have massive DEI departments bursting with discriminatory admissions policies — even after the Supreme Court told them to cut it out. Nowadays they’re still doing it, but on the down low, still illegally — sitting ducks for DOJ investigations.
Proving crypto-discrimination won’t be very hard. DEI managers are not known for their innate intelligence. Cunning, yes. Unburdened by morality, definitely. But not too bright. Harmeet will run rings around them.
I cannot conceive of any faster way to realistically unwind the entire DEI revolution.
Most DOJ prosecutions for discriminatory practices are “settled” through binding, court-approved contracts called “consent decrees,” with which colleges and companies must comply or face automatic criminal convictions. Defending these cases is fabulously expensive. Companies and colleges are under massive pressure to settle; if their defense is “we never discriminate,” then what’s the harm of signing a consent decree agreeing never to discriminate?
It’s fun to consider how Obama’s DOJ invented a controversial enforcement technique: forcing companies under consent decrees to pay fines directly to progressive activist groups. Now imagine Harvard being forced to pay hundreds of thousands or millions to Turning Point, USA. Goose, meet gander.
Maybe best of all —this is me, not Marc— it seems very likely Harmeet will also investigate and prosecute companies that most egregiously violated their employees’ religious liberties by denying jab exemption requests and making unjabbed employee’s lives miserable on purpose (Ascension Hospital Group and Morgan & Morgan, I’m looking at you).
I’ll be shocked if Harmeet didn’t go after the jab dictators.
A long-overdue reckoning is coming to woke companies and to the academic institutions. This could be even more entertaining to watch than when Lewis Skolnik’s nerds salted the jocks’ gym shorts with itching powder.
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