Fox's Rachel Campos-Duffy and Fox Business' Charlie Gasparino give the game away over what we can expect next due to the Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in college admissions.
July 5, 2023

Fox's Rachel Campos-Duffy and Fox Business' Charlie Gasparino give the game away on what we can expect next due to the Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in college admissions. It's always a safe bet that whatever damage this court does with any of its rulings, the repercussions never end there. We've already had Nazi Stephen Miller threatening to sue law schools if race is taken into account for admissions.

Now we've got Duffy and Gasparino celebrating the fact that some corporate CEOs are telling Gasparino this may mean the end of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs, and the possibility that we may see law suits from white men if they feel they've been passed over for a promotion because they're white.

Here's the exchange from this Monday's Fox & Friends:

DUFFY: Well, it sounds like almost too good to be true, but is it true that these decisions could actually impact DEI in corporate America and ESG?

GASPARINO: Well, you know, I'm not a judge, I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a journalist, but about a month ago I wrote a column and reported on Fox Business that there was sort of a clarion call that went out to corporate lawyers that represent boards and CEOs that said, listen, if this Supreme Court case on affirmative action comes out pretty specifically and blatantly against affirmative action, it's precedent setting and it's going to have to... we're going to have to like really look at our DEI policy.

Now why is that? If you know anything about DEI it's, you know, every company has it to some extent. The way it's been practiced, particularly in the last five years, and I'm doing a book about this, just so you know, full disclosure, I have a book deal.

DUFFY: It's a great topic.

CASPARINO: Working title is “Too Woke To Fail.”

DUFFY: Best title ever.

GASPARINO: Working title, but because DEI practices have devolved into something like quotas, and that's what we have at major companies, quotas, and I'm getting examples this at major banks and big companies, where it's not just the notion of diversity, which is a good notion, let's have a diverse work force. It's not just that. It's like you will have a certain amount of black employees, white males may not get this promotion. We need that promotion for a white female, or however you look at it.

DUFFY: I would imagine the CEOs you talk to just want the best work force, not the most diverse work force, but maybe not.

CASPARINO: A lot of them are progressives so remember...

DUFFY: Yes, exactly. These investment firms we're seeing, State Street Bank, all these -- BlackRock, these policies are being pushed from really high up and those people are very ideological. So will the Supreme Court decisions be able to impact the pressure coming from these progressives at these very powerful positions.

CASPARINO: So, let's fast forward now from a month ago. Yes, they got the decision that they thought they would get, a pretty resounding no to race in any sort of context of promotion, in one case college admissions. If you go to a court, if you're a white male and something... let's say you get passed over because you're a white male, you sue, it's going to be very hard, I am told, for a federal judge or any judge to say, nah, you know, there's evidence, this doesn't, the Supreme Court case doesn't apply to you.

Because the language is almost the same. It basically mirrors employment. On top of that, if it ever gets before the Supreme Court, you're toast if you're a BlackRock or you're a JP Morgan or whoever. So that's what I'm hearing. Is it going to happen tomorrow? No, these things take some time. But I think you're going to be seeing fewer of these policies going forward, probably fewer transgender male -- transgender males like in beer commercials going forward. I mean, that's what DEI is essentially pushing on the American public.

DUFFY: And ESG.

GASPARINO: Well, ESG is a little different. We can get into these acronyms all day but ESG does have a “G” component in it. That's where DEI comes in.

DUFFY: Yeah, well, it's time for companies to care about their shareholders and not so much about what HR department and DEI and all this kind of stuff says.

CASPARINO: Yes, but, listen, it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle, but the Supreme Court has just done so.

DUFFY: Well, great, great, great potential news and good luck on that book. I can't wait to read it.

Gasparino must be taking book naming lessons from Ron DeSantis. I wonder who the right will find next to sue? Apparently it doesn't have to be anyone who was actually discriminated against or has any standing to go before the court given the track record this week from SCOTUS.

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