Dennis Prager Show - David Johnson about D.E.I and his new book “The Diversity Con”
Aired: 2023-11-01
Duration: 05:15


=== The Diversity Con (05:03) ===

[00:00:00]  Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here.
[00:00:04]  A very important book has just been published by a great imprint, Bombardier Books.
[00:00:09]  I know them well.
[00:00:12]  The Diversity Con.
[00:00:13]  What a great title.
[00:00:15]  The Secrets and Lies Behind the Shady DEI Industry.
[00:00:21]  Two authors, David Johnson and Kent Heckenlively, wrote it.
[00:00:28]  I have David Johnson.
[00:00:30]  On the line, and you can see him at Salem News Channel.
[00:00:37]  And the foreword was written by someone named Dennis Prager.
[00:00:42]  I have to check him out.
[00:00:45]  Heard good things about him.
[00:00:49]  Heard good things about Dennis Prager, too.
[00:00:51]  Yeah, but I want you to know there are a lot of bad things to be heard about Dennis Prager if you read the mainstream media.
[00:00:59]  Anyway, congratulations on the book.
[00:01:00]  When did it come out?
[00:01:02]  It came out about three weeks ago.
[00:01:05]  What prompted you to write it?
[00:01:08]  I was an engineer working with Hasbro, and in my time there they brought all the engineers and some of the other departments into a meeting to tell us how they wanted to...
[00:01:22]  Start designing the products, packaging, and marketing with critical race theory in mind and critical gender theory.
[00:01:28]  And it's something I've been following through alternative media for a few years, but when that came to my place of work and they wanted me to participate in what I consider vile indoctrination, I just had to take a stand and I brought that...
[00:01:45]  Story to Project Veritas and then that story went nationwide and following that I decided that more people need to understand this ideology and the best way I could think to do that was to write a book and go into in depth on how this praxis is performed in companies and schools.
[00:02:05]  Did you end up going to one of these re-education sessions at your place of work?
[00:02:10]  Were you able to avoid it?
[00:02:13]  I was not.
[00:02:14]  I was fairly new at the time, and it was mandatory for me, so I did sit through the entire, about an hour-long presentation.
[00:02:21]  And then in the process of writing this book, I went through several more.
[00:02:26]  Several more?
[00:02:28]  Several.
[00:02:29]  I am an expert on DEI now.
[00:02:32]  So here is a question I ponder a lot.
[00:02:37]  How many people at an average...
[00:02:41]  Any random business sit through this and think, wow, she's right.
[00:02:49]  It's usually a she.
[00:02:50]  She's right.
[00:02:53]  So, A, by the way, was it a she?
[00:02:57]  The presenters threw the original one.
[00:03:01]  It was a man and a woman, but the woman was leading it.
[00:03:03]  Right.
[00:03:04]  It's almost always the case.
[00:03:07]  But in any event...
[00:03:09]  How many people...
[00:03:10]  Maybe it's not knowable, the answer.
[00:03:13]  How many people at an average business think, I gotta sit here, but this is nonsense?
[00:03:19]  I would guess a fairly high percentage, obviously, depending on the...
[00:03:25]  I think most people just go along with it because, one, standing up against something that your company is promoting is a really good way to not work at that company anymore.
[00:03:36]  And a lot of people are probably seeing the social pressures from people who do stand up and think that they don't want any part of it.
[00:03:45]  So what did you do?
[00:03:48]  I did the exact opposite.
[00:03:50]  I've never been one to kind of go with the crowd.
[00:03:53]  And I just thought, even if I lost my job at Hasbro, which I did, that it was far more important to get this information to the public and especially to the parents that they were trying to subvert.
[00:04:08]  Now, where does the parents part come in?
[00:04:11]  Because this was not at a school that you got this DEI lecture.
[00:04:16]  No.
[00:04:17]  This was when I was working with Hasbro.
[00:04:19]  So their goal was to, through the packaging and marketing, to introduce racial ideology and gender ideology in a manner that the parents would not notice it, but it would influence the children.
[00:04:33]  And then as a result of influencing the children, it would also influence the parents in sort of a backwards manner.
[00:04:41]  But it was subversive.
[00:04:44]  And that's the part that I found the most troubling.
[00:04:47]  It's one thing if you were to go to parents and say, hey, we want your children to start thinking in terms of racial and gender lines.

=== Subversive And Covert (00:26) ===

[00:04:55]  We want them to start judging people based on race.
[00:04:58]  And if you go to someone and tell them that, they're probably going to reject you because most Americans are not racist people.
[00:05:04]  But to do it through the subversive and covert manner that is very...
[00:05:11]  Typical, and it is the intended...
[00:05:14]  Alright, hold on one second.