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“Diversity” has become the sine qua non of most universities’ purposes; it pervades every aspect of university activity, from student admissions to staff and faculty hiring processes, to curriculum design. A 2021 Heritage Foundation study found that universities employed an average of 3.4 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professionals for every 100 tenured professors. DEI is now indisputably the reigning dogma on universities; anyone who challenges the DEI regime or any of its manifestations will find his career destroyed—at best.
There is little evidence that either the ubiquitous allegiance to
‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ or the emerging prevalence of the abhorrent CRT doctrine have done anything to promote racial equality or the elimination of the vestiges of racial discrimination in society.
There is ample evidence, in fact, that the opposite is true. Racial discrimination in all its forms is a terrible, ugly thing, but it is no less ugly—and no less of a violation of the Constitution—when it is directed against a white man or an Asian-American woman. When institutions take account of race—even for “benign” purposes—they necessarily diminish the focus on characteristics such as merit, aptitude, and innate talent that should truly matter. Race-conscious policies also perpetuate racial stereotypes, creating the perception that members of marginalized groups who succeed do so because of preferences accorded to them as members of those groups and not on the basis of their own merit.
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"Affirmative action” is the practical application of the cruel theory, held as incontrovertible dogma by the Left, that blacks are innately less intelligent than whites.