People put up the anti-DEI argument because racism is a powerful force, even if it will hurt their economic positioning. We know this to be true because slavery and Jim Crow persisted each for decades.
This is all well and good. Racism is a powerful force. So where do we go from here? Clearly according to numerous posts above people are insisting that logic is also a powerful force and vastly better than for society than racism can ever be.
So may I suggest that the fact that racism is a powerful force isn’t what needs to be the final word on this situation, but rather we might want to proceed in this discussion with further and greater diversity.
Are there additional points of view that shed light on the question, the condition you have correctly stated, that racism is a powerful force?
Could we go beyond that fact that racism is a powerful force and ask why is that fact a fact. Is it a fact because it is some law of nature or dues it have a cause that those who clearly see it as a defective mentality somehow managed to avoid acquiring or alternatively overcame, some how.
What is racism? Why does it exist. What appeal does it offer. Why do people fall for it.
Of course the answer is simple if you have the tools to see. Racism exists because because of false morality. Racist believe whatever race they are is superior, and thus the only fact after that is that everyone else is inferior and the only way that stupidity can flourish is to have been told if you do not subscribe to that false morality you are worthless. So racism exists because people who have not yet been made to feel inferior because they have not internalized racism are worthless and clearly numerous people in this thread have not been convinced they are worthless for believing otherwise.
In short, racism has a cause, is preventable and has a cure. Nobody becomes a racist who has not been made to feel worthless for not being one and racism and all of the so called false morality isms like it will be a powerful force so long as children are forced to believe that what makes them superior is real and not a fiction. To be free of belief that opposites exist, that good and evil or superior and inferior for example are real, is to close the door on bigotry and open up to infinite possibility.
Meanwhile the fool on the hill will be standing there still……