{"id":46848,"date":"2026-08-15T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46848"},"modified":"2026-08-15T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:23:32","slug":"state-department-cuts-dei-reading-list-that-praised-looting-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46848","title":{"rendered":"State Department cuts DEI reading list that praised looting, reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2017\/03\/29\/State_Department_sign_s630x354.jpg?51ec8d341491e4a9f66b5807c3cebaa0bf0a135b\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The State Department has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/13\/state-department-cancels-dei-diplomacy-white-fragility-blm-lessons\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrapped a DEI program<\/a> that trained foreign service officers to use invented pronouns and assigned readings defending looting and reparations, the Trump administration announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A review found DEI had become embedded in the department\u2019s culture during the Biden years, with instructors trained to swap \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe\u201d for terms like \u201cZe\u201d and \u201cZirs,\u201d and to teach \u201csystemic racism\u201d in Urdu and Black Lives Matter terminology in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>Instructors were assigned readings including \u201cWhite Fragility and the Rules of Engagement,\u201d \u201cIn Defense of Looting,\u201d \u201cHow White Women Tears Oppress People of Color\u201d and \u201cThe Case for Reparations.\u201d Staffers were also told that phrases such as \u201cillegal alien\u201d were \u201cproblematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The standard five-week training for foreign service officers had grown to include a day and a half of DEI instruction, while a separate public diplomacy course devoted a full day to the material, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the department said it had ended the \u201cideologically extreme and discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda,\u201d adding that the DEI focus had distracted from the department\u2019s role as \u201cthe nation\u2019s first line of defense against hostile powers, terrorists, deadly narcotics smuggling, illegal immigration and other threats to the safety, security and prosperity of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The overhaul is part of a broader push across the federal government to eliminate DEI programs put in place under President Biden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/13\/state-department-cancels-dei-diplomacy-white-fragility-blm-lessons\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Department cancels DEI diplomacy; \u2019White Fragility,\u2019 BLM lessons expunged from training<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #3e3e3e;\"><em><br \/>\n                          This article was constructed with the assistance of artificial intelligence and published by a member of The Washington Times&#8217; AI News Desk team. The contents of this report are based solely on The Washington Times&#8217; original reporting, wire services, and\/or other sources cited within the report. For more information, please read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/ai-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">AI policy<\/a> or contact Steve Fink, Director of Artificial Intelligence, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/14\/state-department-cuts-dei-reading-list-praised-looting-reparations\/mailto:sfink@washingtontimes.com\">sfink@washingtontimes.com<\/a><br \/>\n                      <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #3e3e3e;\"><em><br \/>\n                          The Washington Times AI Ethics Newsroom Committee can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/14\/state-department-cuts-dei-reading-list-praised-looting-reparations\/mailto:aispotlight@washingtontimes.com\">aispotlight@washingtontimes.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n                      <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has scrapped a DEI program that trained foreign service officers to use invented pronouns and assigned readings defending looting and reparations, the Trump administration announced Thursday. A review found DEI had become embedded in the department\u2019s culture during the Biden years, with instructors trained to swap \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe\u201d for terms like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2017\/03\/29\/State_Department_sign_c0-0-606-354_s1200x700.jpg?b69ab8cfde6828b3c38ab841023a7b997a1e20b1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}