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This is Debra Chew
You've probably never heard of Debra Chew
Nobody elected Debra Chew
But she is responsible for more DEI policy in the U.S. government than any other bureaucrat. What she does is called "Policy Entrepreneurship," and it's how activists subvert democrcy🧵
This is Debra Chew
You've probably never heard of Debra Chew
Nobody elected Debra Chew
But she is responsible for more DEI policy in the U.S. government than any other bureaucrat. What she does is called "Policy Entrepreneurship," and it's how activists subvert democrcy🧵
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This letter from at the time Director Francis Collins outlines the extent the which Chew was able to build a huge apparatus of DEI withing the National Institutes of Health.
The sheer volume of DEI infrastructure she created has to be seen to be believed👇
This letter from at the time Director Francis Collins outlines the extent the which Chew was able to build a huge apparatus of DEI withing the National Institutes of Health.
The sheer volume of DEI infrastructure she created has to be seen to be believed👇
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-Debra championed a change to the NIH mission statement
-she led the effort to re-engineer the former NIH Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management.
-Through her advocacy for the Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) population at the NIH, Debra launched a Safe Zone Training (a form of safe space training)
-. She also led the trans-NIH committee effort to standardize workforce categories for diversity. Beyond NIH
-Debra launched a new, centralized Reasonable Accommodation Program for the NIH
-Debra’s team drafted and finalized NIH Reasonable Accommodation procedures,
-She recruited a team of Accessibility Consultants were to provide technical guidance.
All of this was done in the service of EDI programming at the NIH
-Debra championed a change to the NIH mission statement
-she led the effort to re-engineer the former NIH Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management.
-Through her advocacy for the Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) population at the NIH, Debra launched a Safe Zone Training (a form of safe space training)
-. She also led the trans-NIH committee effort to standardize workforce categories for diversity. Beyond NIH
-Debra launched a new, centralized Reasonable Accommodation Program for the NIH
-Debra’s team drafted and finalized NIH Reasonable Accommodation procedures,
-She recruited a team of Accessibility Consultants were to provide technical guidance.
All of this was done in the service of EDI programming at the NIH
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But it gets worse, because Debra left the NIH, and when over to the Federal Housing Finance Agency where she has been building the Division of Inclusivity, Culture, and Equity.
In doing so she brough with her Treava Hopkins-Laboy and Erin Foxworth, from the NIH
But it gets worse, because Debra left the NIH, and when over to the Federal Housing Finance Agency where she has been building the Division of Inclusivity, Culture, and Equity.
In doing so she brough with her Treava Hopkins-Laboy and Erin Foxworth, from the NIH
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As I pointed out yesterday, the NIH has been entirely captured by DEI and woke activists. They operate at every lever, and Debra Chew is a huge reason why. Now that NIH is captured, she is doing the same policy making over at FHFA
As I pointed out yesterday, the NIH has been entirely captured by DEI and woke activists. They operate at every lever, and Debra Chew is a huge reason why. Now that NIH is captured, she is doing the same policy making over at FHFA
https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1848837658413240628
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This process, of getting into institutions and then creating new policy and advocating for policy changes is called "Policy Entrepreneurship."
Policy Entrepreneurship is when the civil service membership attempts to make and implement policy of their own accord.
This process, of getting into institutions and then creating new policy and advocating for policy changes is called "Policy Entrepreneurship."
Policy Entrepreneurship is when the civil service membership attempts to make and implement policy of their own accord.
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Sometimes this is good. For example, Radon Gas (which gets into houses through basements) causes more cancer than smoking, so governments have policy dealing with it. Since most average people don't know about Radon gas, almost all radon gas policy starts in the bureaucracy.
Sometimes this is good. For example, Radon Gas (which gets into houses through basements) causes more cancer than smoking, so governments have policy dealing with it. Since most average people don't know about Radon gas, almost all radon gas policy starts in the bureaucracy.
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Usually such regulations are part of the building code.
This is an example of policy entrepreneurship: it's the civil service taking initiative to stop a problem most people don't know about.
The problem is that this exact same process is open to abuse by activists.
Usually such regulations are part of the building code.
This is an example of policy entrepreneurship: it's the civil service taking initiative to stop a problem most people don't know about.
The problem is that this exact same process is open to abuse by activists.
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Activists can get into the bureaucracy and government agencies and then, rather then doing policy entrepreneurship to solve the problems the agency was created to solve, they instead to policy entrepreneurship to advance their ideology and political agenda.
Activists can get into the bureaucracy and government agencies and then, rather then doing policy entrepreneurship to solve the problems the agency was created to solve, they instead to policy entrepreneurship to advance their ideology and political agenda.
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When this happens, government agencies stop being institutional servants of the people, and instead become vehicles that advance the political goals and agenda of the unelected policy entrepreneurs that have taken over those institutions.
This is the subversion of democracy.
When this happens, government agencies stop being institutional servants of the people, and instead become vehicles that advance the political goals and agenda of the unelected policy entrepreneurs that have taken over those institutions.
This is the subversion of democracy.
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When institutions cease to be servants of the people through accountibility to elected officials, we end up with an administrative apparatus that has the power to regulate the lives of people according to the political agenda of unelected bureaucrats.
It's already happening.
When institutions cease to be servants of the people through accountibility to elected officials, we end up with an administrative apparatus that has the power to regulate the lives of people according to the political agenda of unelected bureaucrats.
It's already happening.
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We are seeing the fruit of this in California, where regulators are blocking @elonmusk from launching rockets because they do not like his politics.
They're using their control of the policy to stop him from succeeding.
This is policy entrepreneurship that's gone haywire
We are seeing the fruit of this in California, where regulators are blocking @elonmusk from launching rockets because they do not like his politics.
They're using their control of the policy to stop him from succeeding.
This is policy entrepreneurship that's gone haywire
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The sheer volume of DEI initiatives, requirements, and policies that were put into place by Debra Chew is incredible. I have never seen anyone else be so effective in policy entrepreneurship.
She ised DEI policy to transform the entire NIH. It's stunning.
The sheer volume of DEI initiatives, requirements, and policies that were put into place by Debra Chew is incredible. I have never seen anyone else be so effective in policy entrepreneurship.
She ised DEI policy to transform the entire NIH. It's stunning.
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The problem is the American people don't like DEI, but they have have no way to stop people lile Debra Chew from implementing DEI anyway
If we want to put an end to this, we need to find a way to reign in the abusive and undemocratic forms of Policy Entrepreneurship.
/fin
The problem is the American people don't like DEI, but they have have no way to stop people lile Debra Chew from implementing DEI anyway
If we want to put an end to this, we need to find a way to reign in the abusive and undemocratic forms of Policy Entrepreneurship.
/fin
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