Mara Gay: ‘I Wish We Would Stop Saying DEI,’ It Reminds Americans of ‘Annoying Trainings that You Have at Work’
‘That’s very easy to kind of poke holes at that’
Mar 20, 2025 5:00 PM
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GAY: “I also think it’s an important moment. I wish we would stop saying DEI because every American hears DEI, and you think about the annoying trainings that you have at work, you know, that’s very easy to kind of poke holes at that. Some of them are fine, some of them are just, you know, a hassle for Americans. What we’re actually talking about coming from the White House is an anti-civil rights agenda, it’s an anti-black agenda, it’s an anti-feminist agenda, it’s anti-LGBTQ agenda, and it’s an attack on the idea that America is a multicultural and multiracial democracy. And I think we should be very specific with our language. DEI kind of can be anything. And so, I think we should call them out for this. I mean, this is not happening in a vacuum at the Pentagon either. There’s a good reason to talk about that.”
