The University of Chicago is offering a racially segregated scholarship that explicitly prohibits white and Asian men from applying. This is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act—U Chicago is brazenly and openly violating the law. physics.uchicago.edu/research-exper…
So-called "anti-racist discrimination" is still a form of racial discrimination—and illegal under American law. It's time for state attorneys general, and eventually, the federal government, to punish universities that segregate student programs on the basis of race.
University of Chicago is great on free speech and open inquiry, but sadly, has fallen under the spell of neo-racist ideology. The university is violating its own stated principles, and is lying when it says "the University does not discriminate on the basis of race."
The Founders understood that, even in an ideal regime of equal natural rights, human beings have a "diversity of faculties" that would lead to unequal outcomes. If white and Asian men advance further in physics, on the basis of merit, so be it. Racialist discrimination is wrong.
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Florida state lawmakers have introduced a public university reform legislation that would:
–Abolish DEI bureaucracies
–Prohibit coercive "diversity statements"
–Shut down Critical Race Theory and Gender Studies programs
–Restore the principle of colorblind equality in higher ed
This would be the most ambitious reform to higher education in a half-century. Gov. DeSantis is channeling the sentiment of the voters, who have demanded that taxpayer dollars stop subsidizing left-wing racialist ideology and partisan political activism. Democracy returns.
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I want to give a special thanks to @ManhattanInst, which has generously allowed me to reprint my City Journal column and has sponsored my new video series, which is already building an audience on YouTube and will publish to Substack as a hub for conversation.
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 Atlantic is carefully and cautiously warming to my position on abolishing the DEI bureaucracy.
Many writers at prestige left-liberal publications loathe CRT/DEI, but, following the advice of Strauss, can only express it esoterically. Worth reading in that spirit.
In the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, many left-liberal publications fell victim to ideological derangement, endorsing self-destructive ideas and causes such as "defund the police" and "sex changes for kids."
Now they're starting to pull it back in.
These writers are in a dilemma: they must sufficiently caveat their writing and maintain a certain distance from political conservatives—the barbarians at the gate—while subtly agreeing with the basic conservative premise and position, hoping to reclaim it for the center-left.
The University of South Florida has adopted radical DEI programming that segregates students by race and promotes the idea that white students should think "I feel bad for being white" and "it's not my fault I’m white" as part of their "racial identity development."
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I have obtained a trove of public documents exposing USF's radical DEI programming, much of which, according to the Wayback Machine, the university tried to delete from its website following Florida governor Ron DeSantis's recent request for information about university DEI.
The first step in this programming is the condemnation of American society. Following the death of George Floyd, nearly every appendage of USF condemned the United States for its supposed "systemic racism," "white supremacy," and "interlocking systems of oppression."
One of my goals this year is to teach other conservatives how to run successful activism campaigns. As a first step, I made this video explaining the strategy behind our new campaign to abolish DEI bureaucracies in public universities. Hope it's helpful:
The premise of my approach is that there are three "lines of effort": the narrative line (emotion); the policy line (intellect); the action line (will). The successful activist hopes to drive all three lines to converge on a stated goal: in my case, abolishing DEI bureaucracy.
For this campaign, I'm publishing a series of investigative reports to make the problem salient (narrative), my @ManhattanInst colleagues have helped design great model language (policy), and legislators are courageously moving the idea through the democratic process (action).