New York Times drops a story on DEI dangers for fear of a staff revolt

We weren’t exactly surprised by the study that found that extreme Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “training” actually increases racism — nor that The New York Times opted against reporting on it.

The Gray Lady, after all, increasingly sees perfectly valid news that upsets its woke staffers as not fit to print.

The latest is the study released Monday by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, which found that “some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment.”

Translation: If you make people read the “racism is everywhere” ravings of Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi, some of them will . . . see racism even where there’s no evidence of it.

Again, not exactly a surprise, but pretty damning given how wildly corporate America and the Biden administration went for DEI training these last few years: Roughly half the US workforce has had to do it.

But the Times (and Bloomberg News) passed on publishing the study’s results: An NCRI insider shared info with National Review showing that reporters for both outlets looked into it, only to be called off by editors.

The Times editor apparently wanted to wait on peer review of the study — even though the paper hasn’t demanded that in publishing stories on past NCRI research.

Our guess: He or she decided it wasn’t worth risking the ire of the paper’s social-justice-warrior hordes, who’ve intimidated management into purging top editors and veteran reporters these last few years.

The wokies don’t completely run the place yet, but if this keeps up, they will soon enough.