By: Richard A. Graves, December 28th, 2025 "Until Hollywood, academia, and progressive politics understand that people do not reject diversity, they reject being talked down to, this cycle will continue. Audiences will disengage. Voters will defect. And elites will keep mistaking optics for reality" Why Perception Has Replaced Reality in the Backlash Narrative Much of the contemporary backlash to DEI rests on a visual illusion. Commentators point to dramatic demographic shift