I grew up in an era when the goal of the civil rights movement was to create a system of equal treatment before the law. That promise of equality offers every American the same opportunity to succeed without regard to the color of their skin or their background. But over the last several decades, the language of the civil rights movement has been hollowed out by the progressive Left, who have traded equality for “equity,” a standard that demands equivalent outcomes rather than equal rules.

This belief of equity over equality was born out of the teachings of the Marxist academics who mainstreamed Critical Race Theory and the concept that America is systemically racist. Unfortunately, these theories eventually made their way into the boardrooms of corporate America in the last decade, resulting in widespread Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates and the overall abandonment of meritocracy.

Today, the equity-based corporate policies are still deeply embedded in many of America’s top corporations thanks to activists and trial lawyers who have lost at the ballot box, but have still found a different way to ensure these sweeping DEI policies are carried out.

A new report from the nonprofit group Alliance for Consumers documents how a well-funded segment of........

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