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Peaked in 2020 and has been in steady decline since then. It’s much better internally now. The vibe shift is real.
Josh Daws @JoshDaws
Posted on X, April 15, 2026
See also Disney down on DEI, says ex-staffer: ‘The vibe shift is real’ | Blaze Media.
This was in response to the question (about Disney):
How bad is the DEI there and can anything be done to change it’s course?
Other than the peak seeming to appear a couple of years later, as I have said before, the impression at my company tracks with his. It seems to have been a fad. And as the fab showed how toxic it was the population as a whole turned against it.
And my impression again, the Democrats found themselves painted into a corner and have nearly suffocated on the paint fumes. They lost the presidency to multiple “felony convicted” Donald Trump, of all people. The got slammed in the popular as well as the electoral college by more than the margin of fraud. And despite all the fraud they lost the House and the Senate, too. The majority of voters came to the conclusion all the cancel culture, all the DEI stuff, all the child transition stuff, all the illegal alien stuff, all the looting, rioting, all the fake racism (think Jussie Smollett), and the insistence of a January 6th “insurrection” was too much and it finally popped the bubble the Democrats had been riding on. The Democrats lost so much credibility that a single podcaster (Joe Rogan) gets about double the views of any of Democrat aligned TV host.
As has been said in various forms, for a very long time:
Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.
Damon of Athens
5th-century BCE Greek music theorist, philosopher, and political advisor, known for his influence on Pericles and his theories on the ethical and political effects of music.
It views politics as ‘downstream’ from culture” was written by Don Eberly in May 2000; “Public policy is downstream from culture” was said by Bruce Chapman, president of Discovery Institute, also in May 2000. Eberly possibly coined the saying because it also occurs frequently in his book Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance (2001). Conservative American publisher Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) often used the saying.
This is why coming out of the closet as a gun owner is important. This is why taking a new shooter to the range and making them comfortable with gun culture is important. This is why, even if we were to get all we want in the courts, we must continue working toward the extermination of the Marxist culture.
I had a reason to be looking at Oracle’s website last week. I mean really looking at it, how it works.
They have scrubbed all mention of DEI from their website. Instead, it is now “Culture”. You can still see the remnants of the phraseology, although you can tell it has clearly been replaced with different jargon. But they haven’t cleaned up all the functional parts. There are still links from other pages where they are https://oracle.com/blah/blah/dei, but when you click on them, you get an immediate redirect to https://oracle.com/blah/blah/culture.
Somebody likely reminded them that civil rights laws are not about correcting past injustices, but stopping current misbehavior cold: Using race, gender, etc in any way whatsoever in business and hiring decisions is illegal. And the various DEI initiatives inherently involved treating employees differently because of those forbidden factors. And while the Biden administration wasn’t interested in enforcing the law if it didn’t like the result or it was against their favored identity groups or on favor of their disapproved identity groups, the Trump administration would be very happy to collect a bunch of racist/sexist scalps in accordance with the law and precedence.
A gay leftist from another place that I read asserted that Claude 4.7 was able to identify her from as little as 150 words that she had written. I don’t like her politics but I couldn’t find anything wrong with her methodology. She submitted writing samples on topics that she doesn’t normally write on and even from her essay in a college application. She had friends submit her writings from a different IP address. Lesson is that dissidents need to find some non-internet way to communicate. I don’t trust ephemera like vibes.