DEI Derangement Syndrome

The obsession with fighting diversity programs.

Jeffrey Kass
Equality Includes You
6 min readNov 26, 2024

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Whether your politics lean right or left, you’ve likely been bombarded with nonstop reports on how the other side is doing something despicable.

What’s worse is most of us live in AI- and social media-imposed echo chambers. Constantly fed more and more ideas that support our pre-existing views. Sometimes even pushing them to the extreme.

Social media transforms whatever pages and people we follow by sending us increasingly radical information that aligns with what we already believe. Some of that information is exaggerated or downright false.

If you’re engaged in information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you’re constantly pounded with information that only supports your views and preys on your fears.

People who follow pages supporting Israel will get a daily dose. Every time a solider dies. Every time Hezbollah launches a missile. Every time a Palestinian says or does something antisemitic, you’ll hear about it. It leaves you feeling hopeless and outraged.

“Palestinians are all terrorists!”

If you’re focused singularly on Palestinian freedom and statehood, you’ll know every time an Israeli soldier goes too far. You’ll know every time a Jewish settler in the…

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Jeffrey Kass
Jeffrey Kass

Written by Jeffrey Kass

A Medium Top Writer on Racism, Diversity, Education, History and Parenting | Speaker | Award-Winning Author | Latest Book: Black Batwoman V. White Jesus | Dad

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