Retired neurosurgeon and former Trump cabinet member Ben Carson told The Daily Wire that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs would hamper American ingenuity and stand in the way of excellence.
Carson, who headed up the Department of Housing and Urban Development under former President Donald Trump, said on Monday that Americans would soon be feeling the negative effects of DEI in medicine. Carson, who became a world famous surgeon after growing up in poverty, said that everybody should be subjected to the same standards instead of focusing on identity.
“What we should be concentrating on is raising everybody to the appropriate standard rather than lowering the standards so that we can put more people in,” Carson told The Daily Wire. “The whole DEI argument is illogical if you are looking for excellence.”