John Carter on X - "A few months back, was killing time at hostel bar in Hamburg, having quiet beer. Dutch boomerdad wants to chat - family trip, wife and kids sleeping or on their phones or whatever, he comes down for beer, as you do. Nice enough guy, engineer or something. He asks what I do. This is always awkward question, because, well, "I am unemployed" is not great answer, but neither is "I write pseudonymous right wing essays on the Internet for my racist frens". So I tell him what I did, until recently. Wow, he says, that's really cool. But why aren't you doing that now? Well, I say, it's very difficult in academia, in general, to find a job if you are from "unprotected class". Ah, he says, trying to sympathize, yes that is unfortunate. But surely you must understand, for a long time there was much discrimination, now we try to correct... All of a sudden, the frustration and hate boiled up inside of me, like acid reflux, like hot bile. I turned on him. That is very easy for you to say, I tell him. You are already quite comfortable. You have a good job, a house - wife, kids. Now you take them on vacation. A pension, probably, on the way soon enough. You can support feminism, anti-racism, DEI, at no cost to yourself. I pay the cost. Me, and millions like me. We did not discriminate. That happened long before we were born. We were raised to be egalitarian, to be colorblind. We had no hand in Jim Crow, slavery, whatever. Now you and people like you make us pay the price for these sins that we did not commit. And you tell yourselves you are good people as you destroy our lives to help others. You have a point, he said. He looked troubled. I do not think he expected such a vicious response. I finished my beer and left. No one clapped."
Wesley Yang on X - "Reagan wanted to abolish affirmative action, a policy that was always opposed by a supermajority of the American public from its inception, but was blocked by the consensus of corporate CEO's who favored it. It seems possible that a decade of overreach by DEI commissars may have finally broken that consensus."
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "Texting with Wall Street executives, who are telling me everyone is feeling good that DEI is coming to a close, even if they won’t do so publicly. Firms are reviewing DEI and ESG policies, ready to draw them down. “Things went way too far.”"
diligentium on X - "I say this as a fairly open-minded Aussie gay guy… I saw pictures of a scantily clad gay dude on the Yammer of a major Aussie bank — think Insta soft porn — all in the name of DEI. Know another gay guy who got “cultural leave” to attend the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. Cray"
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on X - "They're 13% of America's population. Yet somehow if you live in one of our largest cities... ...They're your Mayor, your Chief of Police, your Fire Chief...and they control every municipal agency of consequence. And you wonder why nothing works anymore."
The First on X - "WATCH: The Mayor of Philadelphia, America’s sixth largest city, is unable to spell the word ‘Eagles.’ ‘E-L-G-S-E-S, Eagles!’"
Tales From the Gulag - "I published an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the tyranny that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies are imposing on universities and scientific institutions. This includes excluding talented scientists who are not effective enough in displaying their DEI allegiance, enforcing ideological adherence among faculty and students, and suppressing debate on the topics of merit, quotas, free speech, and a range of gender and race issues. In that article, I gave a piece of partial evidence of the gulag-like environment currently existing in higher education. Numerous faculty responded to an earlier Wall Street Journal piece by me about ideological corruption in science, through emails in which they indicated they were writing under pseudonym accounts out of fear that colleagues or university officials might find out that they supported my concerns. Happily, in response to my most recent piece, no respondents suggested they were shielding their identities, although a number indicated they were writing from their “non-university” email addresses—just in case—or felt comforted by now being retired and free to write. What they present, in summary, is a chilling perspective of the pervasive and divisive atmosphere that is continuing to develop in educational and scientific institutions. I felt it worth sharing a number of these perspectives, after having consulted the individuals involved. Unless otherwise directed, I have worked to ensure the anonymity of my correspondents...
'I feel like the turtle in the picture with the neck out and about to get chopped ... It is strange to me that this is happening because I am a Hispanic woman with Spanish, North African, Chinese, and Native American ancestry that speaks four languages and has lived everywhere in the world, so I should be the pinnacle of what DEI is aspiring for. Nevertheless, I am experiencing the tyranny of DEI because it is not about diversity of race or sex but more about a loyalty test. This will not last forever, but the question is how much damage this will do ... This year has been an authoritarian year full of tyrannical mandates and intolerance. I have never experienced having moral (mandatory DEI trainings that forces me to affirm things that go against my conscience), medical, or religious tests in order to work before this year. Innovation and intellectual greatness come as a result of freedom. Suppression of speech and ideas will result in a reduction of greatness and innovation. Freedom of speech can only be real freedom if speech that we do not agree with is allowed. Let's include diversity of thought and ideology in what you want to protect.'...
'all employees were expected to read Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo'...
efforts to write in support of faculty who come under DEI investigation are generally ignored. This has certainly been the general experience of all faculty I have talked to. DEI offices are usually only interested in documenting complaints. They often don’t even document letters of support...
From another Canadian university came a note from two science researchers which provides perhaps the most ridiculous example I have seen of how DEI statements are used to adjudicate grant applications. In this case, the grant was simply for a piece of scientific equipment, valued at $150,000, to be used by the scientists in their research."
From 2021. Doesn't stop left wingers pretending that DEI is just to ensure that anyone who isn't a straight white male gets a fair shot
Thread by @HistoricHive on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This book claims that black people built Stonehenge. This might be amusing, were it not an award-winning work recommended for every classroom. Here's a selection of absurdities it presents: 🧵
*Brilliant Black British History : Atinuke, Nebechi, Kingsley*
Black people have inhabited Britain for longer than whites. Naturally, therefore, they built Stonehenge. What is the basis for this claim? Cheddar Man, an Ancient Briton whose skeleton was discovered in a cave, was recently reconstructed. His skin was described as 'as dark as dark can be,' as confirmed by scientists. Surely they could not be mistaken? Scientists involved in the reconstruction were motivated to ‘...prevent people from identifying with ancestral populations.’ Regardless of refutations of his black ancestry, once black Britons adopt Cheddar Man as part of their identity, he will remain black thereafter.
Britain is described as 'some rainy islands that had no spices', therefore undesirable to conquerers. Spices will play a predictably central theme to this book... The Romans, therefore, would have much preferred, rather than the rainy isles, to conquer the bountiful lands of Africa... However, when stopped by a Nubian warrior queen, they turned, with great reluctance, to Britain... Populating Britain were 'Black Romans'. York, for example, was apparently 11% black. One such 'Black Roman' was Septimius Severus. Of Italic & Arabic ancestry, Septimius developed quite the tan in sunny Scotland! It is claimed, citing 'stories', that a black Roman introduced Christianity to Britain... It is skillfully inferred that Europeans, even kings, were devout Muslims. Elsewhere, the Spaniards and Portuguese were enriched by a great Islamic empire... 🇪🇸🇵🇹
Traversing the West African coast, the primative Englanders basked at the rich and powerful empires that covered 'every inch of Africa', with:
- Cities grander than London
- Running water and toilets
Alas, the greedy English needed their salt and pepper!
Why couldn't the aforementioned mighty African empires couldn't prevent the 'unstoppable' enslavement of Africans? Because African warlords were mostly complicit; slaves, captured in tribal warfare, were traded to Europeans in exchange for guns, alcohol, tools, and other goods.
The abolition movement led to the outlawing of slavery, a monumental decision, incurring a debt that Britain did not pay off until the 21st century. However, we learn that the movement was driven primarily by black activists, with some white people belatedly joining in... Since gaining freedom, Black people have received 'no help,' which is often used to explain their perpetual position as a global underclass. This presumably overlooks welfare, social housing, DEI initiatives, not to mention the eye-watering amounts of international aid...
After WWII, men from the Caribbean came to rebuild post-war Britain. Heartwarming! Except:
- They were implored not to come to England
- Far from a worker shortage, there was a surplus (soldiers back from war)
- They had no work, no money, no accomodation
Since revisionism has not stopped us so far, we end strongly with a celebration of George Floyd. A strange addition to a book published in late 2023!"
Of course, if you criticise the book, you're a racist bigot who doesn't know that the British Isles were Black before they were British
Konstantin Kisin on X - "Something I've often wondered about: if "diversity is our greatest strength" why is it that we have to be reminded of that after every terrorist attack?"
Meme - Joyce @TOOAJoyce: "Funny how before diversity made us stronger there was less crime, better wages, affordable homes, better healthcare, rigorous education, less social angst, no issues of integration, no fixation on "racism,' more national confidence, and grooming just meant personal hygiene."
Robby Starbuck on X - "Wow. The American Institute of Dental Public Health had an absolute mental breakdown in response to President Trump’s orders ending DEI in the government. They believe "Oral justice" is somehow tied to abortions and letting kids get sex changes. They list @VFWHQ , @barstooldiff , The American Dental Association, @ruralhealth , @aspendental , @DeltaDentalins , @PattersonDental , @FisherHouseFdtn and @unlv as partners. I wonder how they all feel about being partnered with this lunacy? People should ask them. I somehow doubt @stoolpresidente backs this crazy-town statement. The whole statement is so crazy that you almost can’t believe it’s real but… it is. There’s one thing we agree on though, mental health is very important and the people behind this statement should get some help!"
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن on X - "Usha Vance just became the first Asian American and Hindu American to serve as Second Lady of the United States in American history. The lack of celebration from those who typically champion diversity reflects the sentiments of the movement as not “advancing people of color,” but “advancing people of color who share my views.” This is not “anti-racism,” but conditional racism. It is to be insincere about diversity as an objective, reducing it to a Trojan horse for political partisanship. Congratulations to the Second Lady."
Andy Ngo on X - "London — The Westminster City Council @CityWestminster has posted a DEI job recruitment ad that says whites will be discriminated against. The council is seeking someone from the "Global Majority (GM)" and says it will use "positive" discrimination against white applicants."
We keep being told this isn't happening, and that DEI is just to ensure a level playing field so those who aren't white men can get hired
John LeFevre on X - "There are now thousands of unemployed DEI "experts." They have useless degrees, minimal skills, wildly unrealistic salary expectations and delusionally-high opinions of themselves. These people are unemployable. They're toxic, bad energy, team-killers, and walking lawsuits. And the NGOs and academia are getting dismantled next... so they can't even find a home there. A couple of them can join KJP at Jennifer Rubin's new media empire, "run it back" with Kamala 2028 using the same playbook, or grift off of whatever retarded endeavor Steve Jobs' widow or Reid Hoffman funds next..."
Jesse Singal on X - "It's gonna turn out a ton of people were just straightforwardly breaking the law. Makes it much harder to argue against the anti-DEI push"
Thread by @JohnDSailer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: Louis Galarowicz (@nasorg) and I have acquired a trove of records from University of Colorado, Boulder, that show how the entire university coordinated to advance a system of brazen race-based hiring. The receipts are pretty astonishing... 🧵
We acquired the approved/successful proposals for the university's large-scale diversity hiring program. Here are a few examples: The College of Engineering & Applied Sciences said its cluster hire had “the goal of doubling our underrepresented faculty in the college.” Another example: The Renewable And Sustainable Energy Institute proposed a specific candidate—who it noted was “an outstanding BIPOC scholar” who would increase the program’s “domestic Faculty of Color...” Another example: The Department of Journalism told the admin in its proposal that “Our commitment, should we be successful with this application, is to hire someone from the BIPOC community…” Another example: “We have an urgent and qualified need for BIPOC femme/women of color faculty,” the Department of Ethnic Studies stated, adding that the scholar should contribute to a “thematic cluster hire in racism and racial inequality.”
These are just a few examples, the list goes on and on. The College of Media, Communications, and Information’s cluster hire, meanwhile, emphasized "hiring Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Latinx, and Pacific Islander faculty…” But also note the disciplinary focus... As we argue in the @WSJopinion, racial preferences went hand-in-hand with ideological preferences. Notice that this proposal to hire a German studies scholar touts how she's both a woman of color and has an expertise in “anti-racist pedagogy” and “decolonizing German Studies.” One of the most remarkable troves of public records I've ever received, the implications here are far-reaching, both for the university and for federal policy."
How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado - WSJ
Jesse Singal on X - "It's gonna turn out a ton of people were just straightforwardly breaking the law. Makes it much harder to argue against the anti-DEI push"
Brandon Wolf on X - "Karine Jean-Pierre earned two degrees, has worked in politics for 21 years, including on 5 presidential campaigns and in 2 administrations, and — just to put a cherry on top — speaks 3 languages. Go ahead and tell the class what is “DEI” about her. Let’s hear it."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Is that why Kirby had to to step in and handle the press on really important things?"
Sharkweek on X - "I like how liberals tell us how important DEI is and then are deeply offended when someone is called a DEI hire"
AdamSD on X - "Does Brandon Wolf not realize that she couldn't seem to answer one question without reading it from her binder? Yes, she was a DEI hire she reminded everyone of that quite often with her "I am an immigrant, black, lesbian."
Ruben Navarro on X - "With that kind of resume you’d think she would be better at her job. 🤷🏼♂️"
Andrew Follett on X - "I love how when they try to defend incompetence, they inevitably point to the number of degrees the incompetent has...as if that mattered."
Silent Majority on X - "If she's an example of what multiple college degrees get you, then I understand why American test scores continue to decline. She truly was awful at her job."
Emperor 4 Life on X - "I’ll never forget how badly she pronounced emeritus as if she never heard the word before."
Richard Hanania on X - "Katie Phang, MSNBC anchor, says that Trump ending DEI in government is like Woodrow Wilson segregating the workforce and putting black workers in cages: “Take a second to let that sink in.”"
Meme - "Diversity in real life: Roman soldier, American Indian chief, Viking warrior, Zulu [?] Warrior, Buddhist Monk, Samurai
Diversity in woke culture: Black Roman soldier, Black American Indian chief, Black Viking warrior, Zulu [?] Warrior, Black Buddhist Monk, Black Samurai"
Meme - "Love Island South Africa criticised for near all-white cast"
"South Africa is 8% white. So it is completly minority casted which makes it one of the most diverse shows there is"
Meme - *Woman wearing shirt 'America needs lesbian farmers'*
Brent Black: "but then who will design the collapsing bridges, unsuecessfully fight the fires, and crash the boats and planes???"
Mar Dave: "Didn't know Subaru made tractors"
Robert Smith: "Great idea, lots of farms will go for cheap once they reach the age of 40 and can't put up with the labor needed to keep the place running."a>
Meme - Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ: "We can’t find NHS beds and appointments for British people but we can find money for 35 “diversity” jobs, 29 of which allow “working from home” and many of which pay £80,000+ We should follow America and dump DEI woke waste"
"NHS hiring dozens of diversity jobs despite order to crack down. More than 30 equalities roles - some with salaries over £80,000 - have been advertised since Labour took power. NHS bosses have ignored an instruction to scrap diversity jobs. NHS bosses are ignoring orders to scrap diversity jobs by hiring dozens of new"
Meme - "First look at Norman Osborn in 'YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN'. Voiced by Colman Domingo."
"You know, I'm something of a BLACK PERSON myself"
Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs - "The report was praised by the NFCC, which said it would help to create “safe and inclusive places to work”. In the study, its authors claim that fire chiefs’ commitment to “inclusion” is as important as their “competence”."
When due to left wing social engineering and lowering of standards, more people die, this will be blamed on lack of "representation"
Thread by @aaronsibarium on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "SCOOP: The University of Illinois was sued today over a slew of race-based hiring programs that discriminate against white scholars. The lawsuit shows how faculty hiring—and the paper trail it generates—could be an easy way for the Trump administration to go after DEI.🧵
The plaintiff, Stephen Kleinschmit, a former professor of public administration and data science at the University of Illinois Chicago, alleges that he was fired for raising concerns about the programs. The initiatives include "racial equity" plans that call on departments to "hire three [people of color]" and a separate program run by UIC’s diversity office that funds the recruitment of "underrepresented" scholars. To apply for those funds, departments must describe their DEI goals and what’s been done to achieve them. The result is a long paper trail of applications—first reported by the Washington Free Beacon—in which departments openly pledge to discriminate based on race. Such statements form the backbone of Kleinschmit’s complaint, which argues his firing was both a form of retaliation and race discrimination. Though UIC claimed he was being fired due to budget cuts—which did not result in any other layoffs—those cuts came as his department was seeking to hire a scholar "from a community of color." The lawsuit is the latest example of a public university facing blowback for its discriminatory employment practices. CU Boulder paused a "critical needs" hiring program last month after documents surfaced showing the school's race-based hiring:
Similar documents have been unearthed at the University of Washington, Ohio State, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At the University of New Mexico, one professor wrote in an email, "I don’t want to hire white men for sure."
College admissions have also been the subject of discrimination complaints, but those cases can be difficult to win because student privacy laws shield admissions files from public disclosure, forcing plaintiffs to rely on statistical evidence. "Admissions decisions are an opaque morass at their best," said Dan Morenoff, the head of the American Civil Rights Project. "Proving discrimination requires intensive econometric analysis by experts and only 2-3 law firms have ever successfully litigated that discrimination." The faculty hiring process, on the other hand, tends to produce a paper trail that is accessible through litigation and, at public universities, subject to public records requests. That could make programs like UIC’s easy pickings for private litigants and federal agencies amid the legal siege promised by the Trump administration, which has issued a series of executive orders targeting universities and DEI. "Plaintiffs should have a much easier time proving universities are violating Title VII in their hiring policies than they would have proving Title VI violations in admissions," Morenoff said. "The evidence will not be hard to find." At UIC, all departments are required to submit "advancing racial equity" plans to the school’s DEI office, which in 2020 released a set of templates for what those plans should look like. The templates instruct departments to set hard racial quotas—"hire at least 3 new tenure-track faculty of color," for example—and to submit progress reports on the steps being taken to meet them. In one such report, dated October 2023, UIC’s College of Applied Health Sciences wrote that it had hired "2 more faculty and 1 staff of color" over the previous year. "By the fall of 2024 we will have two additional faculty of color in the department (e.g., AA/PI, NA/AI, Black, and/or Latinx)," the report said. In another report, UIC’s Global Asian Studies program pledged to hire "at least three new additional faculty … who represent diverse identities." The university has also incentivized race-based hiring through its Bridge to Faculty program, which provides money to departments to hire "underrepresented" scholars. Because that money comes out of UIC’s central budget—not each department’s own coffers—the program is the only way for some departments to afford new hires, according to the lawsuit, forcing them to double down on DEI if they wish to remain competitive. In applications reviewed by the Free Beacon, departments disparaged "White Masculinity," called for "additional BIPOC/female/nonbinary faculty," and claimed it would be "immoral" to recruit "underrepresented graduate students" without hiring more professors who "look like them." Several also stated that they would target faculty with a focus on activist scholarship. The math department said it wanted a scholar of "race and power in undergraduate mathematics education," for example. And the biomedical engineering department, which received funding through the program, said that its ideal candidate would "train the next generation of Biomedical Engineers in DEI principles." These initiatives had an extraordinary effect on the racial makeup of UIC’s faculty. Between 2019 and 2023, the # of black and Hispanic tenure track professors rose by over 25%, according to data from the school, while the number of white tenure-track professors declined by 4%.
Soon enough, Kleinschmit began hearing from his colleagues that some of the new hires were not up to snuff. It was "demoralizing," he told the Free Beacon, to see unqualified scholars fast-tracked for tenure because of their race. In the fall of 2022, Kleinschmit began airing these concerns to top university officials, including UIC provost Karen Colley and the dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Stacey Swearingen-White. By February 2023, he had been informed of his impending layoff. Swearingen-White told him in a meeting that his contract would not be renewed because of budget cuts. But at the same time that those cuts were allegedly being made, the college found the money to hire a series of new administrators, according to the lawsuit. The college aslo received funding through the Bridge to Faculty program to recruit a minority scholar. And Kleinschmit was the only member of the college who was ultimately let go. "The Plaintiff repeatedly and thoroughly highlighted the discriminatory nature of the university’s conduct, making him a target of retaliation," the lawsuit reads. "If Professor Kleinschmit were a member of one of the preferred racial groups, the administration would have quickly found the resources to support his continued employment."
Tldr: University of Illinois Chicago is being sued after nearly program at the school stated, in writing, that it planned to hired based on race."
Libs of TikTok on X - "Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) suggests that the reason more women don't go into manufacturing is because "the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.""
Dr. Steve Turley on X - "This is what the Democrat party has been reduced to, utter outlandish absurdity."
US government gave $2 million in funding to "Chinese for Affirmative Action" : r/aznidentity - "With discussions about USAID spending coming to the forefront of political discourse, it has recently come to light that one of the biggest Asian American organizations that defended and promoted affirmative action was funded by the US Department of Justice. "Chinese for Affirmative Action", or CAA, was a prominent group that defended discrimination against Asian students and sided with elite institutions going back to the 1990s. They supported a policy where Chinese-American students were held to a higher standard than those from other backgrounds... CAA sent Chinese-American representatives to DEFEND Harvard (poor, oppressed little Harvard!). CAA also accused Asians of "anti-blackness" for opposing this unfair treatment... Read between the lines of what CAA officials say, and you'll come away with even more disturbing conclusions. In an op-ed to the LA Times, CAA member Sally Chen appeared to suggest that Asian Americans don't count as real "diversity"... why is the U.S. government giving $2 million to groups like this? Do they have a vested interest in keeping Asians out of the best educational institutions?"
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