Presidents used to appoint diplomats to defend the interests of the United States and the public against foreign adversaries. That looks now like a gauzy past. Today‚ you have President Joe Bidens appointees‚ who want to demolish the society they purport to represent.Sadly‚ this is no exaggeration. On April 2‚ Secretary of State Antony BlinkenappointedZakiya Carr Johnson as the State Departments new chief diversity and inclusion officer to advance our deep commitment to diversity‚ equity‚ inclusion‚ and accessibility (DEIA) in the department.The fact that the Biden administration stubbornly clings to DEIthe way President Barack Obama said Americans clung to their guns and Biblesis puzzling. The private sector seems to berunning awayfrom DEI with as much speed as it initially rushed into the embrace of these dubious training sessions and practices.The adoption of diversity‚ equity‚ and inclusion peaked in the tumultuous summer of 2020‚ when U.S. cities were rocked by hundreds of riots led by Black Lives Matter‚ an organization founded by Marxistsintent on upendingAmerican society. The violence intimidated the gatekeepers of our cultural institutions into accepting deep cultural transformation‚ and thus‚ the surge of DEI.The reason often given by companies for now stiff-arming DEI is that it has proved to be divisive. It turns out that forcing the public into anti-racism training that reminded many of the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution in China was not popular.There is also the fact thatevidenceis piling up that DEI doesnt worki.e.‚ it doesnt translate into higher profits or other better outcomes.Yet‚ undeterred by popular antagonism‚ the Biden administration marches on to the DEI beat.From the desk of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Zakiya Carr Johnson: Im honored that today is my first day leading @StateDeptDEIA. Our commitment is to a future that does not exclude and contemplates us all. #DEIA #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #Accessibility pic.twitter.com/xBMiplgtGT The Secretary';s Office of Diversity and Inclusion (@StateDeptDEIA) April 8‚ 2024Which brings us back to Johnsons appointment at the State Department. Who is she exactly? The public has a right to sift through what she thinks and says.Johnson has bounced between DEI jobs at the State Department‚ where she was director of the so-called Race‚ Ethnicity‚ and Social Inclusion Unit for six years. Shes also worked for Congress and lefty nongovernmental organizations‚ including six years at Brazils very lefty Geledes instituto da mulher Negra. Prior to that employment‚ Johnsonwas a defenderof Brazils Marxist president‚ Inacio Lula Da Silva.Johnsons views of the United States‚ the country she now represents‚ come straight out of the playbook of critical race theory: The U.S. is systemically rotten and thus requires systemic overhaul.Because we live and work within systems‚ and those systems‚ as I mentioned before‚ are so deeply rooted in patriarchy‚ in colonialism‚ in racism‚ in otherism‚ we tend to be very resistant to shifts and changes‚ Johnson said ina 10-minute videoon intersectional feminism she made in 2020 for a consulting firm she founded. In order to make any change‚ weve literally got to be about dismantling that traditional structure at every juncture.Johnsons talk was replete with the terms of critical race theory that have forged the new woke dialect learned in todays universities and then carried forth into the workplace. Words such as representation‚ intersectionality‚ patriarchy‚ interrogate‚ etc. As with all CRT experts‚ everything often boils down to power dynamics‚ a term Johnson uses over and over.Society is laden with traditions that already carry power dynamics‚ be they from histories of colonialism‚ or patriarchy‚ or misogyny‚ she claimed. There are hierarchies and values‚ and those values really make it difficult to navigate and think about a future that is different than the way things have always been.How do you change so much iniquity saturating American society‚ and the West in general? Analyzing those power dynamics on a day-to-day basis is how we move ahead‚ Johnson said in the video.In apapershe co-authored for Germanys Heinrich Boll Foundation in 2020 with five other women who had formed the intersectionality group Action Circle‚ Johnson further elucidates what ails us. Everything is interconnected‚ whether we are combatting racism‚ confronting patriarchy‚ or dismantling white supremacy‚ she wrote.As a founder of Action Circle‚ she wrote that she would challenge this group not to fall victim to a Eurocentric mindset‚ adding: I do not believe that the way we construct solutions to the most pressing issues we are facing in this world should model a colonizers map of how to do things.Bidens secretary of state has appointed this ideologue as witch-hunt supremo at the State Department‚ no doubt to ferret out malcontents who have lived abroad and whose experiences dont quite square with the notion that we Americans live under systems of oppression.We once confronted enemies. Now the enemy is us.Originally published by the Washington ExaminerThe post Biden Admins Relentless DEI Push Continues Apace appeared first on The Daily Signal.