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Feb 15, 2023 12 tweets 8 min read Read on X
The University of Central Florida has adopted radical DEI programming that segregates students by race, condemns America as "white-supremacist culture," and encourages active discrimination against the "male, White, heterosexual, able-bodied, and Christian" oppressor class.

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Officially, UCF reports that it has 14 separate DEI programs, costing in the aggregate more than $4 million per year. But this dramatically understates the reality, which is that the ideology of left-wing racialism has been entrenched everywhere.
After George Floyd, UCF's academic departments pledged themselves to BLM, blasted the "anti-Blackness at the heart of US white-supremacist culture," promised to interrogate their "power and privilege," and denounced white "hegemonic systems," in favor of "cultural relativism."
The ideology that underpins the DEI programming follows the basic mantra of critical race theory: America is a racist nation and, using the logic of "anti-racism," must discriminate against "male, White, heterosexual, able-bodied, and Christian" individuals to achieve "equity."
For faculty hiring, UCF has adopted the position that merit is a "myth" that advances racism and must be corrected through active discrimination on behalf of "minoritized groups." It recommends tilting the hiring process by emphasizing identity over objective qualifications.
UCF also recommends that departments require potential faculty to submit an "Equity and Inclusion Statement," which serves as a loyalty oath to left-wing ideology. For final interviews, the university endorses explicit racial quotas: a minimum of one woman and one minority.
Students, too, must navigate a racial filter. The university has held minority-only graduation ceremonies, and its counseling center offers racially segregated psychological programs, such as "Exploring Vulnerability in POC Spaces," and others for blacks, Asians, and Latinos.
UCF advertises racially discriminatory scholarships that intentionally exclude specific racial groups. Some promise to discriminate on behalf of "underrepresented populations." Others are explicitly segregated, allowing all racial groups to apply except for whites and Asians.
All these racially discriminatory scholarship programs violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. But administrators have operated with impunity because, until recently, no one has tried to stop them.
This could change. Gov. DeSantis has promised to address this problem in the coming months. Legislators should pursue a maximalist position: demolishing the DEI bureaucracy and restoring the principle of colorblind equality to the Sunshine State’s public institutions.
Read the full report at City Journal:
city-journal.org/univ-of-centra…
Here's my new video with some analysis about University of Central Florida's racially segregated DEI programming:

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Law enforcement should make it clear to university presidents that, if they are unwilling to expel violent protestors, they cannot expect the police to serve as a foil and do the clean-up work. The universities made this mess; we should not allow them to shift the responsibility.
The best approach for law enforcement is to create containment zones, prevent violence, ignore provocations, and avoid displays of highly public enforcement, which allow the pro-Hamas demonstrators to play the victim. Hold the line; let the universities deal with it.
The other approach, which the feds successfully used in Portland during George Floyd, is to identify ringleaders who are engaged in illegal activity and do nighttime snatch-and-grabs. This avoids the spectacle of mass confrontation and removes the most significant threats.
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The key is to lock in the circle of connotations around the Ivy League. They stacked faculties with “decolonization” scholars, recruited left-wing student activists, and hired sympathetic administrators. We need to drive internal conflicts and connect all of the dots in public.
The second step is to remind voters that they are subsidizing these ideologies, and, more importantly, these people, through direct federal support, student loans, and Biden’s debt payoff scheme (don’t call it “debt forgiveness”). Call to action should be “defund the Ivy League.”
It’s important to remember that we should not throw Ivy League administrators a lifeline. The Right should be careful not to overreact; the best approach is to remain quiet and let the Left tear itself apart. The longer the encampments stay, the more the Left will fracture.
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EXCLUSIVE: @LukeRosiak and I have discovered that the DEI director of UCLA Medical School, Natalie J. Perry, plagiarized multiple long passages in her PhD dissertation, which is her only published academic work.

The plagiarism here is shocking. 🧵
UCLA Med School has been in the news recently for promoting ideology about "Indigenous womxn," "two-spirits," and "structural racism." A guest speaker praised and two residents championed "revolutionary suicide."

The DEI director, who advances "anti-racism," is Natalie Perry. Image
But according to our exclusive analysis, Perry's career is predicated on academic fraud. Her PhD dissertation plagiarized material from ten other papers, which she did not attribute or put in quotations. The examples are brazen:


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EXCLUSIVE: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is one of the most powerful economists in the world. But @LukeRosiak and I have discovered that her academic work appears to contain plagiarism, according to her former university’s policy.

The plagiarism scandal hits the Fed. 🧵
There have long been questions about Cook’s academic work. Her publication history is quite thin, contains serious methodological errors, and largely focuses on race activism rather than rigorous, quantitative econ. She had trouble getting approved by the Senate.
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We have found that, in a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade, Cook appears to have copied language from other scholars without proper quotation and duplicated her own work and that of coauthors in multiple academic journals, without proper attribution.
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Absolutely, I will share ten stories with original source documentation proving that this is, in fact, how many, if not most, Fortune 100 companies consider DEI.

Buckle up for the woke capital thread of thread. 🧵
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EXCLUSIVE: Harvard racial-studies professor @ChristinaJCross plagiarized multiple passages in her dissertation and at least one other paper, according to a new complaint filed with Harvard’s research integrity office.

Harvard's plagiarism crisis is spinning out of control. 🧵
Christina Cross is a rising star in the field of critical race studies. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, garnered attention from the New York Times, and won a slate of awards for her dissertation, including one from the American Sociological Association.
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The most serious allegation in the complaint is that Cross lifted an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby—the latter of whom was her dissertation advisor—without citing the source or placing verbatim language in quotations.
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