Anti-Woke Conservative Decries UES 'Low IQ' 'Nannies Of Color:' Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — This conservative writer is woke — to the "bizarre" sight of "nannies of color" she endures during evening walks in "the hood," according to emails obtained by the New York Times.

The messages are part of a New York Times investigation into the behind-the-scenes working of the anti-diversity, equity and inclusion — or DEI — movement, a subset of the larger "anti-woke" conservative effort.

In one email between the Claremont Institute, a think tank based in California, the writer Heather Mac Donald went on a missive despairing over the sight of nannies "from the low IQ 3rd world" as she walked around her Upper East Side neighborhood.

While the New York Times notes that Mac Donald was not explicitly connected to Claremont's anti-DEI efforts, she nonetheless had correspondences with those who were, openly complaining about the public acceptance of homosexuality and wondering if conservative tech billionaire Peter Thiel would "feel any shame in public" for having a same-sex marriage that some conservatives held in esteem.

"Probably not," that message ends, according to the Times.

In a 2023 email, Mac Donald, who is a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, wrote about the "nannies of color" she would observe during her "evening power walk in the hood here (upper east side)," reads the obtained email.

She went on to decry the "bizarreness" that working mothers would rather "outsource" their child-rearing to "someone else, especially someone from the low IQ 3rd world," Mac Donald wrote, all so that they could "do the drone work of making partner."

"They would rather absent themselves from its life to show that they are as good as males," Mac Donald wrote, according to the Times. "Such a distribution of labor is allegedly pareto optimal. Another curse of feminism."

According to her biography at the Manhattan Institute, Mac Donald is currently the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the think tank and a contributing editor at its publication, City Journal. She was educated at top institutions around the world, including Yale, Cambridge University and Stanford Law.

Neither the Manhattan Institute nor Mac Donald replied to requests for comment by the New York Times.