How did the Supreme Court’s 2025 opinion about so-called “reverse discrimination” change DEIB? It didn’t.

“Reverse discrimination” isn’t recognized as a legal standard. It’s a made-up term that’s been erroneously applied when someone in the majority is discriminated against. But it doesn’t matter whether a white person, a person of color, a man, a woman, a Christian, a Jew, or a Muslim who’s been discriminated against. Discrimination is discrimination.

On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that members of a majority group (e.g., Whites, heterosexuals) are subject to the same standard as members of minority groups in proving discrimination under Title VII, which bars employers from intentionally discriminating against their employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

In a rare unanimous decision, the Supreme Court said that Title VII “draws no distinctions” between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs, writing “the standard for proving disparate treatment under Title VII does not vary based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group.”

The Principles of DEIB are consistent with this decision. DEIB does not, and has never, encouraged discrimination of any kind. In fact, DEIB Principles are nondiscriminatory. In a society that fully embraces the practice of DEIB Principles instances of unlawful discrimination would eventually become a thing of the past.