Erec Smith of the Cato Institute in the Boston Globe?

I'm shocked that the Boston Globe would produce something that throws shade at DEI. The prescriptive racism embedded in DEI policies

He starts by recounting being a lone black in mostly white elementary school, and what he put up with. Then a racially mixed high school where he got the same thing from the blacks. He didn't fit in the prescribed box.

The most disheartening aspect was that both my previous white tormentors and my new Black ones were implying the same thing: You’re not fulfilling our ideas of what a Black person is, and for that you must pay.

I do not tell this story to garner pity. (I’m not big on the whole “victim” thing.) I do not tell it to guilt my childhood antagonists. (There’s no benefit in doing that.) I do not tell it to gain some kind of catharsis. (At this point, I’m over it.) I tell it because I am now a mid-career college professor, and these types of bullies have not gone away. They are now academics and administrators at prestigious universities; they are now running HR departments; they are chief editors of prestigious journals. They are prizewinners for their work in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The hat tip goes to Clayton Cramer: Worth Reading in Full. I agree.