By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine - Yes, a captivity. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (hereafter, DEI) can properly be called a captivity. Americans were held hostage by this alien ideology born in the claustrophobic classrooms of the Marxist credo for decades. Its noose has finally loosened... So enveloping was this agitprop that the commanding heights of academe and conventional intelligentsia cast aside outdated things like free speech and launched a campaign of cancel culture, the flip side of Nazi book burning. For years, average Americans crouched in fear at the ubiquity of this Enemy.