A new report claims that two major news outlets buried stories regarding a recent study that suggested diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) education “increased hostility” and made participants more likely to agree with slightly modified statements from Adolf Hitler.
According to the National Review, both The New York Times and Bloomberg told the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) that they would not publish stories regarding the institute’s recent study, which was titled “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias.” The NCRI’s study discovered that people exposed to DEI education were more likely to experience “perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice.”
The NCRI study featured 850 participants who were separated into two groups. One group was given a politically neutral essay about India’s caste system, while the other group was provided with DEI training material produced by Equality Labs, a left-wing organization that promotes civil rights education.
According to the study, participants who read the DEI material and later read modified statements from Hitler that substituted the word “Jew” with the word “Brahmin,” which stands for the upper class of India’s caste system, were more likely to agree that members of the upper class system were “‘parasites’ (+35.4%), ‘viruses’ (+33.8%), and ‘the devil personified’ (+27.1%).”
The NCRI noted that the DEI educational material appeared to “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.”
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An NCRI researcher told the National Review that while The New York Times and Bloomberg “jumped on the story enthusiastically,” the stories at both news outlets were “inexplicably pulled at the highest editorial levels.”
Regarding the unpublished story by The New York Times, a NCRI researcher told National Review, “The piece was reported and ready for publication, but at the eleventh hour, the New York Times insisted the research undergo peer review after discussions with editorial staff — an unprecedented demand for our work.”
In a statement to The Daily Caller, a New York Times spokesperson claimed that the outlet’s journalists often choose not to move forward with various news stories “for a variety of reasons” after evaluating them. The spokesperson added, “Speculative claims from outside parties about The Times’s editorial process are just that. It’s not true that The Times had prepared a story ‘ready for publication’ on this topic.”
While two Bloomberg reporters initially told NCRI that the recent DEI study would lead to “an important story,” the National Review reported that Nabila Ahmed, who serves as the team leader for Global Equality at Bloomberg News, later told NCRI that the story would not be published due to an “editorial decision.”
