Thread by @realchrisrufo

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: