The same man who now mocks the phrase “diversity is our strength” once wrote a 45-page dissertation at Harvard advocating exactly that. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, now an anti-DEI attack dog, wrote in 2013 as a Harvard Masters candidate that closing racial achievement gaps was a “laudable goal” supported by “equity, diversity and accessibility,” the Boston Globe reports. That kind of language is what Hegseth has pledged to rid the Pentagon of by 2025, telling the military's top brass in a Sept. 30 speech that he will no longer tolerate “more ID months, DEI offices, guys in dresses.”
The Defense Secretary said closing racial achievement gaps was a “laudable goal” supported by “equity, diversity and accessibility.”
