DEI is unraveling at our universities. Good riddance to a failed and divisive bureaucracy

Valletta · Jun 9, 2024

While they would rather "mend not end" DEI, what the university leaders describe gets to the heart of what is happening on college campuses.

To those who have paid close attention to DEI’s growth on the quad, the anti-Israel sentiments on U.S. campuses aren’t surprising.

Timothy Minella, senior fellow at the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, believes that the antisemitism on display is directly correlated to the adoption of this flawed diversity agenda.

DEI is unraveling at our universities. Good riddance to a failed and divisive bureaucracy.

Since last year, 85 bills combating DEI have been introduced, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. So far, at least 14 have become law.

www.yahoo.com

The hatred needs to stop.

BCP1928 · Jun 9, 2024

Valletta said:
While they would rather "mend not end" DEI, what the university leaders describe gets to the heart of what is happening on college campuses.

To those who have paid close attention to DEI’s growth on the quad, the anti-Israel sentiments on U.S. campuses aren’t surprising.

Timothy Minella, senior fellow at the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, believes that the antisemitism on display is directly correlated to the adoption of this flawed diversity agenda.

DEI is unraveling at our universities. Good riddance to a failed and divisive bureaucracy.

Since last year, 85 bills combating DEI have been introduced, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. So far, at least 14 have become law.

www.yahoo.com

The hatred needs to stop.

Boy, does that article bring back memories of being an undergraduate in the 60s. I can almost smell the tear gas. But it also reminds me that the Vietnam war protesters turned out to be right.

Valletta · Jun 9, 2024

BCP1928 said:
Boy, does that article bring back memories of being an undergraduate in the 60s. I can almost smell the tear gas. But it also reminds me that the Vietnam war protesters turned out to be right.

As to Vietnam, while the cause against communism was just I believe the escalation of the war by LBJ was wrong, particularly being dishonest with the American people. The truth should come out BEFORE the U.S. commits to a war. The communists did indeed torture and murder many once they gained control of all of Vietnam. As to Gaza and Israel, that is closer to Germany in the 1930s. Racial hatred, as per DEI, is never right.

BCP1928 · Jun 9, 2024

Valletta said:
As to Vietnam, while the cause against communism was just I believe the escalation of the war by LBJ was wrong, particularly being dishonest with the American people. The truth should come out BEFORE the U.S. commits to a war. The communists did indeed torture and murder many once they gained control of all of Vietnam. As to Gaza and Israel, that is closer to Germany in the 1930s. Racial hatred, as per DEI, is never right.

I couldn't say, because I don't know your position in the matter. Protesting the war policies of a secular state in the Middle East is anti semitism?
These protests were brought about by DEI policies? No, you will have to explain it better.

Fantine · Jun 9, 2024

Hip, hip hooray for prejudice, discrimination, and white male rule.
Not!

PloverWing · Jun 9, 2024

Obviously, I'm going to disagree with much of what Ingrid Jacques (the Yahoo/USA Today author) writes in her article. But one of her sentences does make a good point: "Compelling future faculty or students to profess adherence to a set of controversial beliefs goes against the very nature of higher education." If we're compelling people to grudgingly go along with something they don't believe in, but we haven't actually persuaded them, then we've done a bad job in our DEI work.

FireDragon76 · Jun 25, 2024

PloverWing said:
Obviously, I'm going to disagree with much of what Ingrid Jacques (the Yahoo/USA Today author) writes in her article. But one of her sentences does make a good point: "Compelling future faculty or students to profess adherence to a set of controversial beliefs goes against the very nature of higher education." If we're compelling people to grudgingly go along with something they don't believe in, but we haven't actually persuaded them, then we've done a bad job in our DEI work.

Certain ideologues on the far left have an almost apocalyptic belief that persuasion has failed. The real issue, I believe, is a lack of moral imagination and a failure to engage in practicecs that build consensus.

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DEI is unraveling at our universities. Good riddance to a failed and divisive bureaucracy

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