Say goodbye to chief diversity officers

DEI is finally being thrown into the garbage.

Based on a new Wall Street Journal report, chief diversity officers are dropping like flies:

Companies including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives will be leaving their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments.

Back in January, when these waves of tech layoffs first gained momentum, Bloomberg also reported that diversity and inclusion jobs were being hit hard:

The layoffs sweeping the technology industry are gutting diversity and inclusion departments, threatening company pledges to boost underrepresented groups in their ranks and leadership.

Listings for DEI roles were down 19% last year — a bigger decline than legal or general human resources jobs saw, according to findings from Textio, which helps companies create unbiased job ads. Only software engineering and data science jobs saw larger declines, at 24% and 27%, respectively.

I argued in February for the Washington Examiner that the sole purpose of a chief diversity officer is to justify their own existence, and that an obsession with irrelevant diversity in the form of skin color, sexuality, or gender does nothing to improve Big Tech’s output.

And I was right, with capitalism now bringing these con artists crashing back to Earth.