Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has just provided another reason why he is my preferred choice to run for president in 2024. He has just moved to end state funding for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida public universities. The below article is from The College Fix.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/desantis-signs-law-to-defund-and-eliminate-colleges-dei-programs/
This is a bold move on DeSantis' part. I hope he will move aggressively to sell it to minorities in Florida.
I saw this DEI in action during my years teaching part-time at the University of California at Irvine (1998-2016). All it does is divide students and staff by race, religion, and national background. It has worked to the deficit of students not belonging to the favored (non-white) groups. That includes Jews since DEI is solidly on the side of the pro-Plaestinian students like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the various chapters of the Muslim Students Association, who regularly organize protests against the Jewish state of Israel, whose destruction they support.
DEI is not for everybody no matter what they claim.
I have written many times about how protesters disrupting pro-Israel events at UCI made the Cross Cultural Center (CCC) their staging area and debriefing area after the fact. I should note here that the CCC pre-dated the establishment of a DEI office at UCI, but the philosophy is the same.
DEI accepts the notion currently in vogue in academia, that all whites are basically racist and oppressors. In spite of anti-Semitism being the world's oldest hatred, Jews get little to no consideration from the DEI crowd. They are basically considered (super) privileged whites. In this perceived universal support for the Jewish state of Israel, they are seen as oppressing Palestinians. In short, the is very little in DEI that brings people together other than using principles like intersectionality to unite various minorities against whites and Jews in arguing that all the problems in the world can be tied to the US and Israel. America is a country founded on slavery and Israel is a Nazi-like state according to the narrative. In general, Western Civilization is something that needs to fade away if not be brought down.
And they call it Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
I applaud Governor DeSantis' action. He has the courage most of his Republican colleagues lack.
You misrepresent DEI just as you do pretty much everything else. Desantis is a fascist autocrat.
ReplyDeleteYou need to change the description of your blog from "conservative thoughts" to "regressive authoritarian thoughts".
I represent nothing. That is my opinion. How would you represent DEI?
ReplyDeleteAnd you have no idea what a fascist is. Mussolini was a fascist. Mussolini would have gone much further than deny funding to something he didn't like. He would outlaw it and put everybody associated with it in jail. You liberals seems to think there is a God-given right to public funding.