Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said on TV recently that forcing the University of Virginia to close its office of diversity, equity, and inclusion will bring the school closer to the original philosophies of its founder, Thomas Jefferson.
Yep, our third President practiced his own curious version of DEI. In fact, he had several children from it.
Youngkin is nothing but a cipher in a cheap fleecy vest. And after a less-than-stellar single term, he's just the latest GOP Governor of Virginia to be pumped up by the media and turn out to be a total lamebrain. George Allen was a racist nincompoop, and Transvaginal Bob McDonnell, convicted of corruption, was headed to jail (until the Supreme Court rescued him). But observers keep insisting that because Virginians lose their minds and send a Republican to Richmond from time to time, that must mean something significant because the Old Dominion is a purple state. It's a load of crap.
Youngkin's latest folly? Luring the right-wing Armed Services Brewery to Norfolk with $300,000 in tax breaks. After less than two years of local opposition, bad finances, and paltry business, the place is closing. But not without the usual ton of MAGA whining. "Unfortunately, our ability to profitably operate in Norfolk was severely affected by the local woke mob, a few individuals in the area who have no love for the traditional American values we hold as a company," CEO Alan Beal wrote.
Gosh! We had no idea that a rampaging "woke mob" was terrorizing the good citizens of Norfolk. (Actually, local residents were against the brewery from the beginning, citing its marketing as hateful to women, homosexuals and transgender people, and signing petitions opposing the granting of city permits. But once Youngkin decided to impose the business on them anyway, folks declined to patronize it.)
It's idiots like Youngkin, not DEI initiatives, that try to make people be what they aren't and do stuff that they wouldn't. Republicans are never happy unless they can drag us all back to the 1950s, are they? We cats look forward to Democrat Abigail Spanperger's election as Governor in the fall. In the meantime, we HISS.
(UPDATE, March 11: For anyone needing even more confirmation that Alan Beal is a garbage person, read this illuminating explanation of what really fell the Armed Forces Brewery. Hint: Not woke mobs.)
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