Imagine if the federal government were to apply DEI principles to the animal world. It might look something like this:

A controversial plan to kill nearly a half-million barred owls to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest has the green light after the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution to stop it.

The supposed problem is that barred owls are more effective hunters than closely related spotted owls.

The Senate on Wednesday voted 72-25 to reject a bipartisan resolution, launched in July, which would have nullified the Biden-era owl-killing plan.

If they don’t mind chopping up countless eagles with coercively subsidized wind turbines, why would they shrink from killing a few hundred thousand owls?

As with all things Big Government, taxpayers are among the victims:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Barred Owl Management Strategy comes with a roughly $1 billion price tag, and would involve wildlife agents shooting barred owls.

Owl genocide is already underway:

To give the spotted owls better odds, feds have already killed roughly 4,500 barred owls along the West Coast since 2009.

Equity has still not been achieved, so the body count must rise.

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) explains the reasoning:

Barred owls are better hunters than spotted owls—that’s just the way it is.

So, the Department of Interior, in all its infinite wisdom, came up with an expensive DEI plan for owls to fix that.

Give me a break. pic.twitter.com/peNqnuuwtp

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) October 29, 2025

Now imagine the same DEI principles fully implemented against the human population. In the Final Solution to Inequity, Caucasians will take the place of barred owls.