最近，我进行了一次横跨美国的长途商务旅行，最终涉及了飞机、火车、汽车、轮船、桥梁和雄伟的摩天大楼。一路上，我真诚地驻足惊叹于现代喷气式客机；牵引客运和货运列车横跨全国的机车；无人驾驶出租车；有四个足球场那么长的巨型游轮；乔治·华盛顿大桥和金门大桥；以及纽约市、旧金山和洛杉矶的60多层办公大楼。
Recently, I was on an extended business trip across the United States that ultimately touched upon planes, trains, automobiles, ships, bridges and majestic skyscrapers. Along the way, I honestly paused in awe to marvel at modern jetliners; the engines pulling passenger and freight trains cross-country; driverless taxis; four-football-field-long megacruise ships; the George Washington and the Golden Gate bridges; and 60-story-plus office towers in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
在旅途中思考这一切时，我立刻产生了两个想法。第一个是，这些交通工具和那些令人惊叹且往往具有历史意义的基础设施，都以某种方式承载着人的生命。第二个是，所有这些都是通过精英 meritocracy 设计和建造的。
As I pondered them all over the course of the trip, I had two immediate thoughts. The first being that, in one way or another, those modes of transportation and that stunning and often historic infrastructure all held human life within and upon them. The second was that all were devised and built via meritocracy.
DEI、身份政治和觉醒指令在其建设中没有任何作用。当所设计和建造的东西最终将决定人的生命安全时，它们也永远不应该有任何作用。
DEI, identity politics and woke dictates played no role in their construction. Nor should they ever, when what is being designed and built will eventually determine the safety of human lives.
我的第三个也是最重要的想法是：“一旦‘觉醒主义’的‘宗教’在我们生活的各个领域轰轰烈烈地卷土重来，这一切都将被抛到窗外。”如果你不这么认为，我极其谦卑地相信，你要么没有关注时事，要么是在用陈词滥调自欺欺人：“无知是福。”明确地说，我不在乎某人是女性、男性、黑人、白人、棕色人种、异性恋、同性恋、跨性别者、自由派、保守派、有信仰者还是无神论者。如果这个人恰好仅凭功绩和现实经验就是这份工作的最佳人选，他们就应该得到它。就这样。
My third and overriding thought was: "That’s all about to be thrown out the window once the ‘religion’ of wokeism comes roaring back into play across the spectrum of our lives." If you think otherwise, I most humbly believe you either have not been paying attention to current events or are fooling yourself via the cliché: "Ignorance is bliss." To be clear, I don’t care if someone is female, male, Black, White, brown, straight, gay, trans, liberal, conservative, faith-based or an atheist. If that person happens to be the best person for the job based solely upon merit and real-world experience, they should get it. Period.
但是，如果那个人仅仅因为“身份政治”而被安插进商用飞机的驾驶舱、机场的控制塔台、军用或商用舰船的舰桥、18轮大卡车的驾驶座、警察队伍或消防部门，或者大型公用事业的控制台，那么这些岗位所掌握的生命就仅仅为了迎合某种意识形态叙事而面临高得多的风险。
But, if that person is being inserted into the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; the control tower of an airport; the bridge of a military or commercial ship; behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler; into a police force or fire department; or behind the controls of a major utility simply because of "identity politics," then the lives in the hands of those occupations are exposed to much higher risk simply to appease an ideological narrative.
有许多人——包括我自己——坚信DEI从未消失。它从未被“击败”或“削弱”。相反，我们认为它被“觉醒”势力的强大先知们有意置于“休眠模式”，他们只是在等待时机，熬过唐纳德·特朗普总统及其MAGA运动影响力的顶峰期。
There are many people – myself included – who strongly believe that DEI never went away. That it was never "defeated" or "crippled." Rather, we believe that it was placed in a purposeful "sleeper mode" by the powerful prophets of "woke" who were simply biding their time while riding out the peak influence of President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.
参议院控制权是一场掷硬币般的较量——而民主党的通路要穿过特朗普的地盘。如果民主党在11月3日重新夺回众议院的控制权——而且很可能还包括参议院——预计那些推动身份政治的先知们会示意各自的信众，在企业、学术、政治、媒体和政府各个领域全面启动DEI机器。
SENATE CONTROL IS A COIN FLIP — AND DEMOCRATS’ PATH RUNS THROUGH TRUMP COUNTRY If the Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives – and quite possibly the Senate – on Nov. 3, expect those identity-politics-pushing prophets to signal their various flocks to fire up the DEI machines across the corporate, academic, political, media and governmental spectrums.
正如一个严酷的提醒，揭示了DEI可能施展的恶意力量，我们有以下这些曝光：首先是货币监理署（OCC）负责人最近的报告，该报告详细说明他的机构发现了“无可辩驳的证据，表明全国最大的银行拒绝、关闭账户并歧视客户和合法企业”。毫不意外的是，许多被针对的对象是保守派或信仰团体。关于这种似乎由DEI驱动的歧视，货币监理署署长乔纳森·古尔德强调说：“美国人应该能够获得金融服务，无论他们的信仰、隶属关系或政治观点如何。”
As a stark reminder of the malicious power DEI can wield, we have these exposés: the first being the recent report from the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) which outlined in detail that his agency uncovered "irrefutable evidence that the nation's largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses." No surprise at all that many of those targeted were conservative or faith-based. Regarding this seemingly DEI-fueled discrimination, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould stressed in part: "Americans should have access to financial services regardless of their beliefs, affiliations, or political views."
参议院银行委员会主席、南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员蒂姆·斯科特对福克斯新闻数字频道表示：“因信仰或政治而关闭美国人的银行账户，这完全不符合美国精神。预计国会复会后，银行委员会将就这一重要问题发出更多声音。”特朗普司法部在最高法院重大裁决后扩大宗教自由保护。美国银行因政治和信仰而针对自己客户群中的部分人，因为他们恰好按照觉醒主义的指令运营，并通过身份政治配备人员，这不仅令人不寒而栗，而且十分危险。
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital: "Debanking Americans over faith or politics is simply un-American. Expect to hear more from the Banking Committee on this important issue when Congress returns." TRUMP DOJ EXPANDS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTIONS AFTER MAJOR SUPREME COURT RULINGS U.S. banks targeting elements of their own customer base because of politics and faith because they happen to operate via the dictates of woke and staffed via identity politics is not only chilling, but dangerous.
然而，这种非法行为不仅存在，而且可能很快被调到“爆炸”级别。回到受DEI侵蚀的航空业，我们首先有《华尔街日报》最近的这篇社论：“在联合航空飞社会主义天空。CEO斯科特·柯比想要财富税。不如多给点腿部空间？”据《华尔街日报》报道，柯比去年的薪酬超过3200万美元，现在却想解决美国的“财富不平等”问题。他当然想。这并不令人意外，因为他似乎长期以来一直是觉醒主义和DEI的拥趸。
And yet, such illicit conduct not only exists, but might soon be dialed up to "blast." Going back to the DEI-compromised airline industry, we have first, this recent editorial from The Wall Street Journal: "Flying the Socialist Skies at United CEO Scott Kirby wants a wealth tax. How about more leg room instead?" Kirby, who, according to the Journal, made over $32 million in compensation last year now wants to tackle "wealth inequality" in the United States. Of course he does. Not surprising, as he has seemingly long been a fan of woke and DEI.
早在2021年，柯比就将DEI招聘做法推向了极致，他部分表示：“在未来十年内，美联航将培训5000名飞行员，这些飞行员在完成Aviate项目的要求后，将保证获得美联航的工作——而我们的计划是其中一半为女性和有色人种。”
Back in 2021, Kirby pushed DEI hiring practices to the max by stating in part: "Over the next decade, United will train 5,000 pilots who will be guaranteed a job with United, after they complete the requirements of the Aviate program – and our plan is for half of them to be women and people of color."
柯比继续说道：“我们很高兴摩根大通已同意支持我们的工作，以多元化我们的飞行员队伍，并为数千名希望从事航空职业的女性和有色人种创造新机会。”摩根大通。有意思。如果有人得知摩根大通也卷入了“去银行化”丑闻，会感到惊讶吗？
Kirby continued: "We're excited that JPMorgan Chase has agreed to support our work to diversify our pilot ranks and create new opportunities for thousands of women and people of color who want to pursue a career in aviation." JPMorgan. Interesting. Would anyone be surprised to learn that JPMorgan has also been implicated in the "debanking" scandal.
我对柯比有一个大胆的想法：只聘用最合格的飞行员，完全基于择优录用如何。如果他们中恰好有一半是女性和少数族裔，那就更好了。
I have a wild idea for Kirby: How about hiring only the most-qualified pilots based entirely upon merit. And if half of them happen to be women and minorities, all the better.
我们乘坐的飞机；我们航行的船只；将我们从城市运送到城市的火车；我们走过的桥梁；以及我们乘电梯登上的摩天大楼，都是天才和精英管理的明证。但很快，所有这一切可能不是由最合格的人设计和建造，而是由某个符合意识形态身份政治框框的人来完成。
The planes we fly; the ships we sail; the trains that move us from city to city; the bridges we cross; and the skyscrapers we ascend via elevator are all testaments to genius and meritocracy. But very soon, all may be designed and built not by the most qualified, but someone who checks an ideological identity politics box.
如果11月3日政治控制权易手，DEI即将卷土重来，来势汹汹。如果——当——它真的发生时，无数美国人的生命将为了服务觉醒主义而非择优录用而面临更多风险。
DEI is about to come back with a vengeance if political control switches hands on Nov. 3. If – and when – it does, the lives of countless Americans will be put at more risk in service to woke over merit.