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Fr. John A. Perricone: RIP, DEI: The End of Our Captivity – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. John A. Perricone: RIP, DEI: The End of Our Captivity

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By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 11, 2025

Fr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York. His articles have appeared in St. John’s Law Review, The Latin Mass, New Oxford Review and The Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. He can be reached at www.fatherperricone.com.

The reign of DEI was a captivity, in which normal folks were terrified to speak openly, lest they be overheard and dismissed from employment, or worse.

PerriconeYes, 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So enveloping was this agitprop that the commanding heights of academe and conventional intelligentsia cast aside outdated things like free speech and launched a campaign of cancel culture, the flip side of Nazi book burning.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. ….

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