DEI Is Just Discrimination by Another Name and ‘Must Die’: Elon Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement has become a new form of discrimination and should be stamped out. “DEI must DIE,” Mr. Musk wrote in a post on X. Even though the impulse behind the DEI movement may have been to tackle discrimination, its actual impact has missed that mark entirely, he added. “The point was to end discrimination, not replace it with different discrimination,” Mr. Musk wrote. While it’s unclear what prompted Mr. Musk’s latest critique of DEI, he has taken the ideology into his crosshairs before—while more generally denouncing “woke” ideologies as a “mind virus” that threatens civilization as we know it....