(READ: If You Want to Collapse a Civilization, Just Institute DEI Initiatives)

There's an endless parade of examples, including Disney, Bud Light, and Target. Many corporations have figured out how toxic DEI is to their companies, and have publicly abandoned it the moment someone like Robby Starbuck exposes their DEI-based activities to the general population. 

(READ: Coors Announces It's Ditching Everything DEI and Woke After Threatened With Exposure)

DEI is also a plague on the economy, and as such, many financial experts, both in the public and private sectors, have gotten together to plead with corporations to turn their back on the practice and do their duty as businesses to both stockholder and customer. 

The first letter is from the State Financial Officers of 17 different states, including Louisiana, Idaho, North Carolina, Utah, and Arizona, wrote a letter to 1,000 Fortune companies on the matter of reaffirming their commitment to DEI. The letter was sparked after 49 House Democrats and activists wrote to these same companies, calling them to reaffirm their commitment to the leftist DEI agenda. 

The financial officials pushed back on the Democrat's call for affirmation, pointing out how destructive and financially unsustainable it is and noting that studies Democrats try to use to prove DEI helps companies has been thoroughly debunked by studies published at Econ Journal Watch and Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, nothing that both found that while it does increase minority participation in the workforce, including in the executive branches, it doesn't do anything to help the business in any way. 

As it explains, it only causes strife and division, utilizing data from the place that invested in DEI the most, the University of Michigan: 

DEI is also bad for the people it promises to help – whether employees, students, or others. The NY Times Magazine just published an article that confirms this. The author studied the University of Michigan’s flagship DEI program, which the university has poured $250 million into over the past ten years. The author noted the external DEI backlash from right-of-center politicians and civil society groups but was surprised to find “a different kind of backlash, one that emanated not from Washington or . . . think tanks but from inside the university’s own dorms and faculty lounges.” Here are several key takeaways from the article: 

    1) Students are fed up with DEI: “On campus, I met students with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Not one expressed any particular enthusiasm for Michigan’s D.E.I. initiative. Where some found it shallow, others found it stifling. They rolled their eyes at the profusion of course offerings that revolve around identity and oppression, the D.E.I.-themed emails they frequently received but rarely read.”
     2) DEI creates a grievance culture: “Michigan’s D.E.I. efforts have created a powerful conceptual framework for student and faculty grievances — and formidable bureaucratic mechanisms to pursue them. Everyday campus complaints and academic disagreements, professors and students told me, were now cast as crises of inclusion and harm, each demanding some further administrative intervention or expansion.” 
     3) DEI delivers a culture of division rather than one of inclusion and belonging: “Michigan’s own data suggests that in striving to become more diverse and equitable, the school has also become less inclusive: In a survey released in late 2022, students and faculty members reported a less positive campus climate than at the program’s start and less of a sense of belonging. Students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics — the exact kind of engagement D.E.I. programs, in theory, are meant to foster.”

They go on to note that employees of DEI-laden companies express negative attitudes toward these programs, with an Ipsos poll finding 40 percent of employees say DEI divides rather than unites, and makes employees feel less trustworthy of their coworkers. Not only that, DEI programs can present incredible legal risks to the company, as it requires action on the basis of racial discrimination. 

The second letter came from financial professionals in the private sector, who urged the Fortune 1000 businesses to avoid "dangerous" DEI practices and policies. The letter gives much the same in terms of data, but adds that customers have expressed severe dissatisfaction with brands that have promoted DEI practices, and it hasn't gone unnoticed by the Wall Street Journal: 

On top of all of this, customers of many brands have expressed sustained dissatisfaction and laid public pressure on many companies to stop promoting DEI. In light of this, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that “Diversity Goals Are Disappearing from Companies’ Annual Reports” and numerous companies, from Brown-Forman to Ford Motor Company, are voluntarily removing DEI initiatives entirely.

The tide is turning against DEI, which is very bad news for the left as they've based quite a bit of their ideological foundations on the idea that "diversity is our strength." The decades-long idea is now proving to be racist, divisive, and ultimately destructive, and the slow-moving corporations who were forced to embrace it are getting a real bitter taste in their mouths. 

As I've written previously, we know DEI is starting to die, and with it a huge aspect of control the left had over society, because leftists are truly beginning to lose it whenever it's brought up. They accuse anyone speaking out about it of social sins, such as wanting to use the "n-word." 

(READ: We Know DEI Is Starting to Collapse Because the Left Is Getting Weird About It)

But society has to reject DEI if it's to advance. The social experience of diversity before merit has failed miserably, and while diversity isn't inherently a bad thing, diversity for the sake of diversity (and fear of socio-political retribution) is a bad thing. 

DEI can't DIE soon enough.