The Partial Observer by Don Feinberg

Yes, There Is a DEI Candidate in this Election…JD Vance

His Admission to Yale Law and Book Deal were Classic DEI Decisions

You don’t have to like JD Vance to know he has been described as very bright. But even knowing he graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State and assuming he scored very well on his LSAT, there’s little doubt he was accepted to Yale Law school, which has a class of only 250 students, because he was one of the top 250 students in America. Why do I say that? Because every year more than 50,000 people apply to law school, over 3,000 of them to Yale law. Was JD objectively no less than the 250th smartest person out of the 50,000 that applied the year he did? Unlikely, but even more importantly, unnecessary. Why? Because as Yale Law School says on its own website, “our goal is to enroll a talented, diverse, and engaged entering class.” Hmm, there’s that word “diverse.” While JD Vance may have done well in school, what he definitely added to his Yale Law School class was the diversity of being former military, not from an Ivy League school (the largest source of Yale Law School entrants) and, as he wrote, distinctly not from the middle class. He was, as he put it so eloquently in his book, a “hillbilly.”

And that book deal further burnishes JD’s DEI credentials. Over 150,000 titles are published every year in the U.S., of which several thousand are biographies. Why was “Hillbilly Elegy,” a book written by 32-year-old Vance only three years out of Yale Law School, published? Undoubtedly because the publisher was struck by the diversity of his background (just like Yale Law School) and they wanted to INCLUDE in their biographical offerings to the American public what they saw as a unique, seldom heard perspective and voice.