The war on DEI

This New York Times feature article reveals the inner workings of a coordinated conservative campaign to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs from American universities. This effort has been primarily led by the Claremont Institute, a conservative California-based think tank.

Starting in 2021, conservative activists formed a network across at least a dozen states to systematically target DEI programs. They researched university personnel and offices to be eliminated, lobbied sympathetic officials, and successfully pushed legislation in states like Texas, Florida, and Tennessee that banned such programs from public institutions.

While publicly advocating for "academic freedom" and "intellectual diversity," internal documents reveal more extreme private views. Participants discussed purging liberal professors, mocked diversity efforts, and expressed discriminatory views about race, gender, and sexuality. Some wrote favorably about criminalizing homosexuality and criticized working mothers who employ caregivers from "the low IQ 3rd world."

We seen much of this time of rhetoric from The General's Redoubt, obviously taking their cue from this (adding to their own hyper-conservative stances)

The documents the Times has uncovered expose a gap between the movement's public rhetoric about protecting free speech and its private goal of replacing what organizers called "leftist social justice revolution" with more "patriotic" and traditionalist education. This means, ending any discussion of systemic racism and teaching black history in any way—even to the point of trying to erase things from public view, so their lily-white view of history becomes predominant.

Thus far, our alma mater has remained mostly silent on this. They have not joined with other universities in the effort to resist the pressure from the current administration. How the hell did we get to a place that we should be more like Harvard?

Non in cautus futuri