Five questions for MAGAs who hate DEI
Be honest. If you dare.
Jeffrey Denny
Buzzfeed recently asked Trump voters what he could do to lose their support.
Many replied if he failed to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion as he promised.
It’s fair to ask them a few follow-up questions:
1. How has DEI hurt you?
Did you, or anyone you know, ever lose a job, or not get one, because a less qualified woman, person of color, or LBGTQ took it? Has DEI harmed you in any way you can prove? Do you feel unequal or excluded? Or does the mere idea of DEI trigger you? Then DEI might not be your biggest problem.
2. Have you ever felt racist hate against you?
For instance, has a Black person ever called you a “cracker,” “white devil,” or “racist bitch” while you were on a family visit to Washington, DC — or as your president called it, “a dirty, crime-ridden death trap” — wearing your MAGA hat and White Lives Matter shirt because you have the First Amendment right to free speech no matter who it hurts?
Are you sure it was about the color of your skin, not the content of your character? If so, DEI might not be your biggest problem.
3. Are you an anti-immigration voter?
Do immigrants from around the Gulf of America hurt you in any way? If you see people who look like immigrants, in person or on your select TV news being demonized, do you know their specific immigration status? And if they have the right government papers even if you hate government and its papers?
Can you tell if they’re illegal criminals? Or perhaps lawful green card permanent residents, refugees, asylees, conditional residents, innocent children of undocumented immigrants or here on special visas like religious workers? Might they be tired poor huddled masses fleeing death, the kind of people Jesus loved, many doing 2–3 dirty, backbreaking jobs you can’t or won’t do?
Or do you lump everyone who looks “Mexican” as illegal? Or worry about the “browning of America” like a white supremacist? If so, DEI might not be your biggest problem.
3. Do you know American racial history?
Are you sick of hearing about it? It was a long time ago, get over it, stop making our white children hate themselves?
Then how about in your own or parents’ lifetimes, when racial bias remained so cruel, rampant, open and legalized we needed the 1960s Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Fair Housing Acts to spell out that Black people were created equal too? What about racial redlining that still keeps Black families out of white communities?
Heck, look at 2020, when George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Andre Hill and 28 more unarmed Black people were shot and killed mostly by white police. Dozens more Black people were killed since then, closing 2024 when correctional officers beat inmate Robert Brooks to death while he was handcuffed and compliant.
If you think these Black people brought death upon themselves, or your kids won’t have white pride like you, then DEI may not be your biggest problem.
4. Do you think the racial gaps in every measure of what makes America great is their fault?
From jobs to income, wealth, health, education, housing and who’s running everything, whites still rule despite America’s growing diversity.
Nonwhites are now 30% of the U.S. population and will be a majority by the time your Gen Z teen hits 40. Smart people get how DEI is meeting the future. If you blame DEI for feeling left behind, then DEI might not be your biggest problem.
5. Do you realize your media is feeding white racial resentment?
You’re smarter than the average lib, so maybe you’re aware your media is feeding your rage addiction with cherry-picked DEI outrages. And racially dividing America for big money to live far better than you could ever dream of. You might say the mainstream liberal media is even worse. If so, aren’t you better than that? If not, DEI might not be your biggest problem.
Bonus question
What really is your problem?
Jeffrey Denny is a Washington writer
