Trump has picked conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to head up the civil rights division at the Department of Justice and this choice was not a coincidence.
Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreesen, who became a Trump supporter during this election cycle, recently described how Dhillon will aggressively go after woke DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies in the corporate world and academia.
Andreesen even suggests that the writing is on the wall and that some corporations are already making big changes in anticipation of Dhillon’s arrival in Washington.
Partial transcript via Kanekoa the Great on Twitter/X:
“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is the federal government’s prosecutorial arm that basically enforces wokeness. They’re the ones who have ensured that, for the last decade, these companies have had all these crazy policies under the penalty of being investigated, subpoenaed, and ultimately prosecuted.”
“The most famous case that the current head of the Civil Rights division brought was the case against SpaceX for not hiring enough refugees—notwithstanding that SpaceX is a military contractor and is not permitted to hire non-American citizens under a separate law.”
“Dhillon is brilliant, and she’s the exact opposite of that.”
“Every signal is being sent that they’re going to do a 180 on all these things, and they’re going to begin prosecuting companies for violations of civil rights laws in the form of reverse discrimination—discrimination against white people, Asians, Jews, and other unprotected classes.”
“I think every major corporation in the country is just in flagrant violation of actual civil rights law. You cannot have these hard quotas and racially, ethnically, and religiously biased hiring practices. It’s flat-out illegal.”
Watch the video below:
NEW: Marc Andreessen reveals how Trump’s DOJ appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, is poised to demolish corporate DEI policies.
Dhillon, a fierce critic of woke corporate culture, is now leading the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
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— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2024
Amuse on Substack recently commented on this:
The timing of Dhillon’s appointment could not be more consequential. The Supreme Court’s recent decision banning race-based admissions in private universities provides a potent judicial backdrop for her efforts. This ruling has already reverberated across the academic world, forcing institutions to abandon longstanding affirmative action policies. Dhillon’s mandate extends this principle to corporate America, where companies’ DEI initiatives frequently cross into outright racial and gender quotas—practices that Andreessen bluntly calls “mass illegality.”
For Dhillon, the strategy is clear: prosecute those who violate the law and incentivize voluntary compliance. “If you don’t want to be a target, it’s a great ‘get out of jail free’ card to voluntarily shut all this stuff down,” Andreessen explains. Already, signs of this shift are evident. Major corporations like Boeing and academic institutions like the University of Michigan have begun scaling back or outright dismantling their DEI programs, anticipating heightened scrutiny from Dhillon’s DOJ.
Dhillon was the perfect choice for this task. She is smart, strong, and knows the law inside and out.
