A tariff on equity?
.. and the global export of straight-white-male supremacy.
Yesterday, the USA began the concerted imposition of a twisted kind of straight-white-male supremacy across the Europe.
This is not just about money — it’s about ideological compliance.
This week I was privileged enough to be invited to speak at the amazing Anthropy UK festival in Cornwall — a conference of leaders driven, almost universally, to make the world a better place for all.
As you can imagine: the topic of Trump, while ever present, was whispered in hush tones, lest it extinguish the flicker of hope being so carefully kindled in everyone’s work.
But what was starkly clear from rubbing shoulders and chatting with various politicians and multinational C-Suiters, even before this announcement was made, was that just the threats emanating from the White House were already dissolving meaningful DEI programs across vast swathes of the global industries.
What came out of the French embassy yesterday is another order of magnitude more concerning. According to the FT this morning:
“The Trump administration has sent a letter to some large companies in the EU warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.”
When SM (presumably “Stephen Miller: the white nationalist at the heart of Trump's White House”) says that the administration will need to make clear to Europe what they “expect in return” for strikes on Yemen, one has to assume that he’s not really only talking about extorting “economic gain”.
Make no mistake: the US administration (esp. the people behind it; Miller, Mercer, Thiel et al) are going to use the economic, military and technological clout America has to export and impose their darkly racists, homophonic and misogynistic ideology across the last remnants of western liberal democracy.
If, like me, you live in the UK - know now: you are not safe from a darker future.
You cannot afford to pretend this won’t happen here. Musk is already stirring the pot of hatred and mistrust across the UK, Germany and elsewhere.
You cannot be complacent in believing it is someone else’s responsibility to solve the problem.
You cannot allow the storm of media chaos to turn you away from understanding the truth. Do not cow from the fight. Lean in. Resist.
Start each new day by reaffirming your own beliefs (if you have them) that we are all born equal, that we are all entitled to the quiet enjoyment of a safe, purposeful and prosperous life … and ask yourself, as you get yourself ready each day: what are you actually doing to help.
Because if you don’t, then you are, in your silence, voting for Miller, Musk and the Mercers … for Trump, Thiel and even Putin to successfully build their plutocratic autocracy on the ashes of democracy …
… and you need to be honest with yourself (and your children) about the consequences of your inaction.
Read Ibram x kendi and deangelo before you go on about DEI fella. I doubt you have if you have such a lack of understanding of what DEI actually is. Colour blind meritocracy is not treating people differently because of the colour of their skin. DEI is! Tell us how you’re not a racist because the AMERICAN movement you are attached to most certainly is.