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DEI under siege: Why more businesses are being accused of ‘reverse discrimination’
Story by Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY  •
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He has accused Macy’s of discriminating against white men. McDonald’s and IBM, too. Even NASCAR – a mostly white sport that banned Confederate flags in 2020 – is in his sights.

About two dozen complaints have been leveled by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser in the Trump administration. 
 
Emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling last summer striking down affirmative action in education, Miller and his conservative advocacy organization America First Legal have taken the position that all DEI programs are illegal, embracing “reverse discrimination,” a concept that first emerged in the 1970s as a backlash to 1960s-era civil rights laws to address racial disparities in the workplace.
 
What is ‘reverse discrimination’?

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson