Aviva’s Chief Executive Amanda Blanc this week told MPs that no senior “non-diverse” (white male) hire is made at the company without her personal approval. This exposes the rotten truth about ‘diversity’, says the Telegraph‘s Annabel Denham.
So there we have it. Laid bare for all to see, the pernicious effect of our national fixation with ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’ (DEI). Aviva’s Chief Executive Amanda Blanc this week told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee that there is no senior “non-diverse” (white male) hire made at the company without her personal approval. There is no need, she implicitly admitted, to sign off on the appointments of non-white people and women. Most people would call that clear evidence of discrimination.
But don’t expect the Left-wing mob, usually so vocal in its condemnation of racism and sexism in all its ugly forms, to sharpen its pitchforks this time. Social media is not awash with calls for Blanc’s resignation, nor have demands for a boycott been issued. Others have suffered obloquy for far less: advertisers refused to be associated with GB News due to concerns over ‘bias’. McDonald’s was targeted after a location offered free food for the Israeli military.
Performative progressivism, as has long been suspected, doesn’t extend to campaigning against discrimination against white people or men. Perhaps we should thank the exquisitely named Blanc for giving the game away: rarely is the true purpose of DEI – not to, rightly, fight against hateful racism and sexism, but to position us all on an intersectional pyramid of victimhood, white men placed bottom – put so bluntly.
We have been drip-fed stories about ‘values’ and ‘diversity’, when really those espousing it mean ‘conformity’ with a particular worldview. Underpinned by the Equality Act, arguably one of the worst pieces of legislation foisted on the British public, DEI has marched through our institutions, stifling freedom of expression and stymieing economic growth along the way. Entire sections of annual reports are now devoted towards these activities: HS2’s 2022 statement was 52 pages long, much of it keenly explaining how many men had been excluded from the doomed project.
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