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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Expert reveals how companies are rebranding 'toxic' DEI policies to skirt Trump-era bans: 'New wrapper'
EXCLUSIVE: As the Trump administration and Republicans across the country push to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies across the board, the executive director of a top consumer advocacy group spoke to Fox News Digital about what companies and institutions are doing to skirt those efforts. "Over the last few months, we've sort of seen a phase shift in the ways that they're trying to keep this DEI grift going," Consumers' Research Executive Director Will Hild told Fox News Digital about companies, organizations, hospitals and other entities that are attempting to rebrand DEI and environmental, social and governance in the Trump era. "At first, they just pushed back on, tried to defend DEI itself, but when that became so obvious that what DEI really was was anti-White, anti-Asian, sometimes anti-Jewish discrimination in hiring and promotion, they abandoned that," Hild said. "Now what they're trying to do is simply change the terminology that has become so toxic to their brand. So we're seeing a lot of companies move from having departments of DEI, for example, to 'departments of belonging' or 'departments of inclusivity.'" Several major companies have publicly distanced themselves from DEI in recent months as the new administration signs executive orders eliminating the practice while making the argument that meritocracy should be the focus. Red State Treasurer Reveals Why State Financial Officers Have 'Obligation' To Combat Esg, Dei However, FOX Business exclusively reported in April on Consumers' Research warning that some businesses appear to be rebranding the same efforts rather than eliminating them. Read On The Fox News App "It is the exact same toxic nonsense under a new wrapper, and they're just hoping to extend the grift because a lot of these people, I would say most of the people working in DEI are useless," Hild told Fox News Digital. Key Biden Agency Dropped $60K On Overseas Conference With Dei Workshop: 'Should Never Happen' "They are mediocrities who have managed to get very high-level positions that they're not qualified for by running this DEI grift, and they're desperate," he continued. "They can't just move into running logistics for Amazon because that takes actual competence and intelligence and if you're in a DEI department, you probably don't have either of those things. So they are desperate to keep this grift going so they can justify their own existence. So they're changing it into a new wrapper." Hild, who spoke to Fox News Digital at the State Financial Officers Foundation conference in Orlando, Florida, also explained some of the other issues Consumers' Research is focused on going forward, including fighting "woke" hospitals in three different areas. "One is net zero pledges and activities that raise costs for consumers, patients having to pay more because these hospitals are investing millions, sometimes tens of millions of dollars, into green boondoggle projects that have nothing to do with the treatment of patients and the improvement of their health, but they do raise prices," Hild said. Secondly, Hild said that his group is concerned about DEI quotas at hospitals. Hild explained that the third and "worst" issue is transgender surgeries and procedures being forced onto children. "Pushing of radical left transgender ideology onto kids, and not just pushing it ideologically and rhetorically, but pushing it physically, and what I mean by that is the injection of damaging, lifelong damaging hormones into children to, quote, unquote, change their sex, which is impossible, and even worse, the actual surgical application, removal and mutilation of their genitals, which is a grotesque violation of the Hippocratic Oath," Hild said. Consumers' Research has been actively involved in launching advertising campaigns against hospitals across the United States, including a recent campaign against Henry Ford Health in Michigan, calling out what it says are situations where hospitals are putting "politics over patients."Original article source: Expert reveals how companies are rebranding 'toxic' DEI policies to skirt Trump-era bans: 'New wrapper'
Vox
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vox
'I don't want romantasy, I want Heathcliff!'
Welcome to Ask a Book Critic, a members-only feature packed with personalized book recommendations from senior correspondent and resident book critic Constance Grady. To get your own recommendation, ask Constance here, and subscribe to the newsletter here. I am due with a baby at the end of this month, and anticipate many half-hour, middle-of-the-night reading sessions while feeding the babe. I would love to start a series that can keep my interest, isn't too difficult to read in short bursts, and interesting enough it can keep me from the temptation of phone scrolling. I'm not a huge fan of sci-fi and typically lean toward fiction or historical fiction. I'd definitely be open to trying some mysteries or thrillers as well if you've got ideas! Since you're looking for a historical fiction series, you should get on Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall books if you haven't already, because they are just as good as everyone says. (Albeit perhaps a bit dense for midnight feeding sessions!) I'd also recommend Nicola Griffiths's Hild series, which has published two of a planned three volumes, Hild and Menewood. They tell the story of a teenage girl in medieval Britain who navigates court politics, intermittent war, and a shifting religious landscape on her journey to becoming Saint Hilda of Whitby, one of the kingmakers of her era. Griffith's got a great touch for all the tactile details of living in preindustrial England — the food, the spices, the cloth, the herbs. One of the deep pleasures of these books is watching all the different religious sects of the Middle Ages jockey for recognition from kings who will follow any god who can get them a win. If the Hild books start feeling too heavy, let's turn to mysteries. Agatha Christie can be your friend here, as can Dorothy Sayers; they both have detective series that go on forever without any appreciable dip in quality. For something more modern, Louise Penny's Armand Gamache detective novels are beloved and, not for nothing, are known for really good food writing too. I want to dive into more contemporary fiction, but struggle to find writing that appeals to my Dickensian and Dostoyevskian sensibilities. I want character-driven. I want beautifully sculpted sentences. I don't want romantasy, I want Heathcliff. I want Jane in the red room and the Demeter at Whitby. I want to hear the beat of the heart under the floor boards. I want to visit José Arcadio Buendía at the tree. I want to see the things fall apart and to know both war and peace. I'm willing to cross the genre wilderness and dive into any culture, but the writing and characters have to grab me. I have found contemporary authors I love — Anthony Doerr, Amor Towles, and Kazuo Ishiguro, for example. I know there are others, please help me find them! I can respect 19th-century taste. The contemporary author who writes the most plush, Dickensian sentences I know of is Sarah Parry. Start with her novel The Essex Serpent, which brings a contemporary psychoanalytical lens to a lurid Victorian fantasia of a plot about a massive sea serpent terrorizing a small town. It's a very rich, textured, Crime and Punishment-in-couture kind of a book. For your Slavic cravings, the novelist Elif Batuman has a degree in Russian literature and titled her debut novel The Idiot after Dostoevsky. It's a much more constrained, specific novel than its inspiration, and it may or may not be to your taste, but it's worth looking at regardless. Finally, my friend (and former Vox colleague) Tara Isabella Burton has a PhD in theology from Oxford, and she thinks a lot about both sin and Dostoevsky in her novel Social Creature. It's a very rich, textured, Crime and Punishment-in-couture kind of a book. John McPhee is my all-time favorite author — I haven't read anything by him that I haven't liked. Alas, he is very old. What are some similar fairly current narrative nonfiction books?
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Cleveland Clinic addresses allegations made in nonprofit's ad campaign
CLEVELAND (WJW) – The Cleveland Clinic is the focus of a new ad campaign by a nonprofit organization that asks the question, 'is the Cleveland Clinic the wokest hospital in America?' The group, Consumers' Research, claims the Clinic is focusing on social issues instead of the care of patients. In a television commercial, the group claims that Clinic leadership, 'prioritize care based on skin color, perform child sex changes, push transgender propaganda on vulnerable kids, insert DEI into everything they do and spend millions on climate activism.' Ohio Senate OKs bill banning college DEI programs, faculty strikes after hundreds testify against it The executive director of Consumers' Research accuses the Clinic of 'being focused on a political agenda, not what's best for patients.' According to Will Hild, 'Cleveland Clinic is very woke, whether it's pushing net zero policies that drive up costs for patients, whether it's treating patients differently based on the color of their skin or pushing far left transgender ideology on kids under the age of 18, including surgeries and lifelong addictions to puberty blockers.' Consumers' Research was started in 1929 as a founding organization in the consumer protection movement. In 2021, the nonprofit launched a campaign to combat what it calls 'wokeness' in corporate America. 'The number one goal for any of our campaigns is always to get the organization to change its behavior,' said Hild. The nonprofit maintains it is prepared to do more than just run commercials. For example, Consumers' Research promotes the fact that it played a central role in the boycott of Bud Light beer in 2023. As part of the new campaign called, 'Cleveland Clinic Exposed,' Hild maintains, 'patients and consumers have the right to vote with their wallet and their voice.' According to Hild, 'if this is something that Cleveland Clinic thinks is more important than serving their patients, we would highly recommend patients find a different place to seek treatment.' Group billed Cleveland taxpayers for sending sympathy note after officer death: I-Team When asked how Consumers' Research is funded, Hild said the organization has thousands of donors from across the country, but they protect their privacy to prevent harassment from those who oppose the group. In response to the claims by Consumers' Research, Cleveland Clinic issued the following statement: 'The recent Consumers' Research advertising campaign is riddled with inaccuracies and lies. For example, Cleveland Clinic does not provide gender-affirming surgeries for patients under the age of 18. For over 100 years, Cleveland Clinic's mission has been to care for life, research for health and educate those who serve. We do not discriminate or create preferences based on race, gender or any other characteristics, and we abide by ethical and legal standards of care with respect to our delivery of healthcare services. Cleveland Clinic is a nonpartisan organization and we neither have nor promote a political agenda.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
