{"id":1228191,"date":"2022-01-20T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228191"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:23:47","slug":"youngkin-co-opts-diversity-office-viewpoint-diversity-true-history-protecting-the-unborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-co-opts-diversity-office-viewpoint-diversity-true-history-protecting-the-unborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin Co-Opts Diversity Office: &#039;Viewpoint Diversity,&#039; True History, Protecting the Unborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoungkin-co-opts-diversity-office-viewpoint-diversity-true-history-protecting-the-unborn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is redefining the Northam-era Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion away from \u201cequity,\u201d championing \u201cviewpoint diversity,\u201d and tasking the director with being an \u201cambassador for the unborn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.virginia.gov\/media\/governorvirginiagov\/governor-of-virginia\/pdf\/74---eo\/74---eo\/EO-10--Focusing-Virginia%27s-Diversity,-Equity,-and-Inclusion-Office-.pdf\">issued<\/a> Executive Order Number 10, imagining a different office \u2014 giving the director the title of Commonwealth Chief Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion Officer \u2014 and focusing on need-based criteria for the office, as opposed to the mostly race-based focus of the Northam administration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The goals of the office are laid out essentially in four pillars: entrepreneurship and economic opportunity, \u201cdiverse free speech and inclusive civil discourse,\u201d teaching \u201chonest, objective, and complete\u201d history as opposed to critical race theory, and the involvement of faith-based organizations in community development.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin has reclaimed words like \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201cinclusion\u201d to include differing viewpoints and religious beliefs,&nbsp;rather than the left\u2019s mostly race-based definition that came with the foundation of the office. Indeed, as the <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/youngkin-names-a-new-diversity-officer-for-the-state-orders-a-new-focus-for-the\/article_fdbb1fdd-e6c9-581e-a7ad-b82e456843e8.html\">lamented<\/a>, \u201cThe executive order doesn\u2019t mention race or any specific racial group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin Press Secretary Macaulay Porter told Breitbart News that \u201crestructuring\u201d the office \u201c<span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">carries<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">out<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">the<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">governor\u2019s<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">initiatives<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">of<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">creating<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">equal<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">opportunities<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">for<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">all Virginians,<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">not<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">mandating<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">equal<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">outcomes,<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">and<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">focusing<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">on<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">free<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">speech<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">and<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">focusing<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">on<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">reading,<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">entrepreneurship<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">opportunities<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">and<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">economic<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">opportunities<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">for<\/span> <span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">Virginians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">The governor\u2019s office received criticism from some on the left for taking down the old office\u2019s website which, according to the <em>Times-Dispatch<\/em>, included \u201cresources and reports on improving equity at the state\u2019s agencies and public institutions.\u201d They noted the website is being rebuilt, likely in line with a focus away from race-essentialism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In setting up the context for the newly envisioned office, the Executive Order reads, \u201cSince the first settlers arrived little more than 400 years ago, we\u2019ve been an imperfect people on the course to a more perfect union. At times we\u2019ve truly failed to live up to our ideals. But we all want to do what is right and what is morally just even if we fall short.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As director, a cabinet-level position, Youngkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.virginia.gov\/news-releases\/2022\/january\/name-922694-en.html\">chose<\/a> Angela Sailor, who comes from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. Sailor has written multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/staff\/angela-sailor?page=0\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/education\/commentary\/critical-race-theory-fight-generational\">arguing<\/a>&nbsp;that the fight against critical race theory is \u201cgenerational,\u201d and has commended the work of the 1776 Commission \u2014 an advisory committee created by former President Donald Trump to combat the false narratives of the widely-debunked&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> \u201c1619 Project\u201d with what he called a \u201cpatriotic education.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19565218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP61586814954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19565218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP61586814954.jpg\" alt=\"IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TV ONE - Left to right, panelists Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University professor and author, Angela Sailor, former director of the Coalition Department at the RNC, Paris Dennard, political commentator, Angela Rye, political commentator and analyst, and moderator Roland Martin, Managing Editor and Host of NewsOne Now, stand onstage at The State of Black America Town Hall taping presented by TV One and the National Urban League at the Howard Theater on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The two-hour special will premiere Wednesday, May 31 at 8 p.m. ET on TV One. (Allison Shelley\/AP Images for TV One)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Sailor, second from left, stands onstage at The State of Black America Town Hall taping presented by TV One and the National Urban League at the Howard Theater. (Allison Shelley\/AP Images for TV One).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a July article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/education\/commentary\/schools-hiding-behind-diversity-and-inclusion-rhetoric-spew-critical-race\">titled<\/a> \u201cSchools Hiding Behind Diversity and Inclusion Rhetoric to Spew Critical Race Theory Vile,\u201d Sailor contends that \u201cno matter your race, it\u2019s our moral obligation to push back against a doctrine that divides our nation and invokes hopelessness. We must also teach the truth of America\u2019s heritage\u2014its imperfections as well as its remarkable strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Times-Dispatch<\/em>, however, reported the false Democrat talking point that critical race theory is a \u201ca term used by Republicans to refer to lessons on systemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical race theory, according to Sailor, \u201cpushes equity instead of equality. Nothing under heaven has the power to guarantee equal outcomes. Policies that insist on this impossible goal will inevitably result in discriminatory practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a another July article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/education\/commentary\/most-parents-and-teachers-are-done-critical-race-theory\">titled<\/a> \u201cMost Parents and Teachers Are Done With Critical Race Theory,\u201d she wrote, \u201cPeople have the freedom to use CRT as a weapon to cast hate. Or we can use core civic knowledge as an opportunity to reset, understand our common political inheritance, and build a stronger community with our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin said in a press release that \u201cAngela Sailor\u2019s experience in government, nonprofits and the private sector will guide us as we ensure that the government is working for all Virginians across our diverse Commonwealth, especially when it comes to economic opportunity for all Virginians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s evident that Governor Youngkin does things differently,\u201d Porter told Breitbart News. \u201cAngela Sailor will focus on equal opportunities for all \u2013 not equal outcomes. She will work on bringing communities together, on expanding entrepreneurship and promoting free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some conservatives were&nbsp;nervous Wednesday as Youngkin designated someone to fill the position, which had been created by Northam in the wake of his blackface scandal and therefore had a heavy racial focus. Youngkin, however, does not appear to place a premium on race, but rather on need \u2014 regardless of race.<\/p>\n<p>Establishment media and other Democrats, on the other hand, are very concerned with the new direction, as they come to terms with the end of their stranglehold on the Governor\u2019s Mansion.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on the announcement, the <em>Times-Dispatch<\/em> dutifully and misleadingly <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/youngkin-names-a-new-diversity-officer-for-the-state-orders-a-new-focus-for-the\/article_fdbb1fdd-e6c9-581e-a7ad-b82e456843e8.html\">wrote<\/a> that Youngkin \u201csaid emphasis on disparities between white people and people of color is \u2018divisive.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the outlet, Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) said, \u201cExchanging the word \u2018equity\u2019 for \u2018opportunity\u2019 again dismisses the struggles of marginalized peoples who have not been granted the same opportunities due to systemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said of the \u201cambassador for the unborn\u201d part of the job that she is \u201cdeeply concerned that the administration\u2019s decision to frame prenatal care through the perspective of the fetus and not that of pregnant people signals a forthcoming attack on reproductive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin said in the press release that he will introduce and support legislation to rename the office in his cabinet to remove \u201cequity\u201d and include \u201copportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is redefining the Northam-era Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion away from \u201cequity,\u201d championing \u201cviewpoint diversity,\u201d and tasking the director with being an \u201cambassador for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}