Understanding DEI From Tier 2

By Leo Gura - April 16, 2025

This is an excellent Tier 2 Integral analysis of DEI. The last third of the video gets especially good as it gets more Integral, so watch through to the end.

Stick through the beginning of the video, I promise you he’s not an anti-woke airhead.

I love how Keith criticizes DEI not from below like right-wingers do, but from above. This is a case-study in how to criticize left-wing/Green ideology from above. This shows you how bad and delusional right-wing criticisms of the left are even though the left has some bad positions. The left and post-modernism need to be included and transcended, not demonized and fought with. Notice how much better this Integral critique is than something like what Jordan Peterson does. This is why Jordan Peterson is not Tier 2. Tier 2 is non-reactionary because it understands and appreciates the stage it’s criticizing.

Have you integrated the thing you’re criticizing or not? That’s the key difference. Right-wingers constantly make the error of criticizing things they haven’t done the work to integrate. It’s like criticizing food you’ve never tasted because you’re too afraid and too closedminded to put it in your mouth.

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An important point about the topic of equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome:

The distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome is a right-wing canard. This is an untenable distinction because the two are inter-related. You cannot know if opportunity is truly equal without at least some measure of outcomes. We do not have a crystal ball, so we need to measure outcomes to at least some degree to know if systems are fair. How do you know if someone is cheating at a game? You look at historical outcomes. That’s how casinos catch cheaters.

Considering outcomes does not mean all the outcomes need to be 50/50. But the notion that we shouldn’t care about outcomes at all is wrong. It’s a notion spread by right-wing reactionaries like Jordan Peterson to justify the corruption of the status quo. Caring about equality of outcomes does not mean that 50% of programmers or bricklayers should be women. That’s just a strawman of what equality of outcome means. It is extremely convenient for a corrupt power hierarchy to say, “Don’t look at the outcomes”, because the outcomes reveal corruption and bias. When we say that income inequality is a huge problem, we know that by looking at the outcomes, which is a legitimate thing to do. The way you balance any game is by looking at outcomes of all the players over a long enough time. When a player loudly cries out, “Don’t look at the outcomes!” you can be sure he’s gaming the system and the game isn’t truly balanced.

You have to consider outcomes to know if opportunities are truly equal because social reality is too complex and nonlinear, so we need every data point we can get. This point is never understood nor acknowledged by right-wingers like Jordan Peterson.

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