NIC: DEI is a useful policy
Brent Regan’s Sept. 19 opinion column claimed DEI will destroy NIC. He insists competency and being the best are the foundation to all success. He claims DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) undermines competency, and if NIC is devoted to DEI, NIC won’t be successful. The KCRCC NIC Trustee candidates will save NIC by killing DEI.
How do people acquire competency? Typically it comes from gaining knowledge and skills through forms of education. People with common advantage have ready access to such opportunities, but the disadvantaged face many obstacles; like a history of poverty and race, or random disabilities, or sexist treatment, or insufficient language skills, or religious discrimination, or ageism. Generations have fought for the equality of those faced with such disadvantages.
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