John A. Gentry

The immediate post-9-11 group now, they're well into management.

All with similar minds.

They've been selected from demographically and they have been acculturated through policies.

And so you now have large numbers of people who have bought,

this view.

And again, they believe it on two grounds.

One, politically or ideologically.

I tend to think in this case the two terms are similar, but they're not identical.

But call it political or ideological.

If you're a Marxist, then it's ideological.

If you're thinking the DEI policies really are designed to help specific groups of people, then it'd be political.

And then another area is interest.

So you get large numbers of people who are benefiting materially from this.

They're getting differentially favorable promotions, differentially preferential awards, differentially preferential assignments.

So...

ideational, ideological interests on the one hand, material interests on the other, and they work together to say DEI, DEI, DEIA now policies are really good.

What does the A stand for?

The A for accessibility.

Because it hasn't all the way.

Because there's still pretty clearly some people who haven't all the way bought the program.