The Ford Foundation investments director published an opinion piece Wednesday in Fortune Magazine claiming attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are “anti-capitalist.”
Roy Swan is the director of Mission Investments at The Ford Foundation, a left-leaning non-profit that is one of the largest donors for left-leaning causes in the United States. Swan wrote the opinion piece in response to what he sees as “ruinous rhetorical civil war” caused by DEI.
“DEI is a capitalist tool to increase income and wealth through fairness. Increased fairness results in increased employee engagement. Increased employee engagement leads to greater innovation, productivity, and profitability,” Swan said in the article. “Sadly, for America, DEI attackers have fallen prey to the paradoxically seductive and anxiety-provoking power of oppression psychology—tactics designed…
