{"id":30049,"date":"2025-01-09T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/in-defense-of-dei-wajahat-ali-and-yusuf-zakir\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:46:29","slug":"in-defense-of-dei-wajahat-ali-and-yusuf-zakir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/in-defense-of-dei-wajahat-ali-and-yusuf-zakir\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of DEI | Wajahat Ali and Yusuf Zakir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEI refers to three simple but important words: diversity, equity and inclusion. These three values are indispensable<\/p>\n<p>If the US wants to achieve economic growth, empower the best talent and have a fair and just society for all, it must embrace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Otherwise, we can simply devolve into a backsliding democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1745158868676546609\">ruled by a billionaire class<\/a> that pillages our wealth as it divides us through manufactured culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>On cue, conservatives are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WUTangKids\/status\/1876982706933834132\">blaming DEI<\/a> for the devastating fires currently ravaging California and for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/steve-scalise-bizarrely-blames-dei-171844586.html\">recent terror attack<\/a> in New Orleans committed by a US citizen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/09\/diversity-equity-inclusion-importance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEI refers to three simple but important words: diversity, equity and inclusion. These three values are indispensable If the US wants to achieve economic growth, empower the best talent and have a fair and just society for all, it must embrace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Otherwise, we can simply devolve into a backsliding democracy &#8230; <a title=\"In defense of DEI | Wajahat Ali and Yusuf Zakir\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/in-defense-of-dei-wajahat-ali-and-yusuf-zakir\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In defense of DEI | Wajahat Ali and Yusuf Zakir\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}