I hope you're right. Here in Australia DEI bureaucracy is now so entrenched in non profit orgs (like the one where I work), charities, education and random companies that have nothing to do with social justice causes (I noticed the other day that even my local Ikea have plastered their entrance in DEI platitudes), that it's hard to see this going anywhere anytime soon.

The issue is that its basic premises, diagnoses and solutions have now been embraced by normies. They are the ones now cluelessly fanning the flames. I've seen normal people who aren't political, aren't on twitter, culturally conservative and would stare at you blankly if you mentioned things like 'woke' or the 'culture wars' embrace and regurgitate concepts like pronouns, microaggressions, white privilege and anti-racism. I hear the word 'equity' about 10 times a day now at my workplace.

My 12 year old daughter's bedroom walls are covered in progress pride flags and 'inclusivity' posters she made at school. I doubt very much her teachers have heard of Butler, Crenshaw, Kendi or Di'Angelo, in their minds they're just doing their tiny bit towards creating a better, more inclusive and kinder world. The DEI officers at my workplace are equally clueless, they're just getting paid good money to roll out more confirmation bias trainings, to create and send out PDFs about Intersectionality and to make sure those diversity boxes are ticked.

These ideas - most notably being 'inclusive' and striving for more diversity - are sticky and easy for normal people to digest. They appear to fit in with most people's views about fairness and equality and most people simply don't see the bad ideas lurking behind the facade because they don't have the time or inclination to dig any deeper. I also think these concepts feel good to many people - I'm convinced they get a rush of endorphins whenever they use words like 'privilege' or 'equity' in a sentence.

So whilst I share your optimism that those who lit the fuse will eventually be exposed and die out, the problem is that the ideas have escaped from the lab and are being spread like a feelgood virus by normal, everyday 'useful idiot' people who will never see the dark underbelly even if it's hitting them in the face.