State Department abolishes DEI policies for foreign service
State junked DEI training tied to White Fragility and In Defense of Looting as Pigott executes Trump's foreign-service reset.
Summary
- The State Department abolished DEI policies across the foreign service under Trump executive orders.
- Removed materials included framing tied to books such as White Fragility and In Defense of Looting.
- Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said diplomats will advance national interests, not woke social homework.
- The purge mirrors wider Trump administration cuts to DEI offices across cabinet agencies.
- Allied embassies had complained about U.S. lectures on domestic identity politics crowding security agendas.
Commentary
Diplomats should negotiate basing rights and China strategy, not assign White Fragility to foreign ministers.
Pigott's line is correct: embassies are not campus seminars. Scrap the looting-defense reading list.
Japan and other allies noticed when DEI slides replaced missile talks. Restore seriousness at Foggy Bottom.
Comments
Pigott nailed it: interests, not dogma.
In Defense of Looting is not diplomacy. Delete it.
DEI prevents bias in hiring. Keep the programs.
White Fragility in FSI curriculum was embarrassment.
Allies want missiles, not guilt trips.
Trump is purging experts for politics.
Experts who read looting defenses were not serious.
Japan cheered when DEI left the bilateral deck.
Examiner listed the books. Archive the syllabus.
Train languages and leverage. Skip the guilt.
