When an organization focuses on DEI, it jettisons whatever its mission used to be in favor of imposing its ideology. That’s what has happened to innumerable corporations and now to the MS Society which is no longer fighting to eliminate multiple sclerosis, but instead fighting to eliminate women by forcing everyone to broadcast their pronouns. The pronoun plague is not about making the tiny percentage of mentally ill men who believe they’re women feel included, but to single out and punish people who aren’t going along with the program.
At the MS Society, Fran Itkoff, a 90-year-old volunteer, didn’t understand the whole pronoun business and her difficulty understanding was treated as a hate crime.
Fran Itkoff, the 90-year-old leader of the Lakewood/Long Beach Self-Help Group, was told her organization would no longer be affiliated with the National MS Society after her “failure to abide by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion guidelines.”
Itkoff, who has won multiple awards for her and her husband’s work with the organization, became confused one day after she saw several people sign their emails and letters with their names along with their chosen pronouns.
“I was confused, I didn’t know what it was, what it meant,” Itkoff told the social media account Libs of TikTok. “I’ve seen it on a couple of letters that had come in after the person’s name they had the pronouns, but I didn’t know what that meant.”
As Itkoff noticed the pronouns more often, she asked one of the society’s representatives what it meant.
The nonagenarian, however, did not get a clear answer.
“Finally I was talking to her and thought I would ask ‘what does it mean’ and let her tell me,” Itkoff said. “She said that it meant ‘they were all-inclusive,’ which didn’t make sense to me.”
Itkoff was confused about how the “she/her” pronouns could be labeled as “all-inclusive” if it was referring to females and not males.
A few days after the conversation, on a Friday at 4:58 p.m. Itkoff received her “pink slip.”
“At the end of the day, end of the week, I got an email from her saying ‘they were sorry, but they had to ask me to step down as a volunteer for the MS society,” Itkoff claimed.
“The verbiage she said was you didn’t abide by their diversity, equity and inclusion, so they had to ask her to step down and she can’t be a part of the MS society as a volunteer.” Itkoff’s daughter Elle Hamilton said.
Hamilton pointed out the irony in the statement as they were excluding a “90-year-old disabled woman who volunteered for over 60 years.”
It’s not really irony because the MS Society is no longer dedicated to fighting MS, it’s dedicated to DEI.
In its statement on the purging of a 90-year-old volunteer, the MS Society states
“As an organization, we firmly believe that we best serve and support those living with MS by creating a space that welcomes all… Fran Itkoff, was asked to step away from her role because of statements that were viewed as not aligning with our policy of inclusion.”
The actual reality is that the MS Society is focused on DEI, the I stands for Inclusion, and, in typical woke fashion, it claims that it can best help those with MS by adopting DEI. Likewise woke military brass claim that they can best win wars by adopting DEI and churches claim that they can best practice religion through DEI.
What all of that really means is that these are woke cults that have only one true mission… politics.
The MS Society states that, “diversity, equity and inclusion are core to who we are as an organization.”
That means its mission is no longer core, only DEI is.
The MS Society has succumbed to something even worse than multiple sclerosis. DEI.