The Pushback

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** DEI Resistance Rising
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** The pushback.
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By Larry Sand

While it certainly hasn’t been done away with, the anti-quality, anti-fairness, and anti-American “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” hustle is taking some hits. This ugly form of tribalism pits men, whites, and the rich (oppressors) against women,blacks, and the poor (the oppressed.) With a language all theirown, the DEI-ists have wormed into just about every facet of American life. The government – notably its schools – the military, and corporations have all embraced the sect.

Of late, Jews have been targeted. After the savage attack on innocent Israelis by Hamas butchers on October 7, Jews have been branded as oppressors, and Israel was deemed a“genocidal ([link removed]) , settler, colonialist state” in the minds of the DEI tribe. One former DEI official ([link removed]) explained that “criticizing Israel and the Jewish people is not only acceptable but praiseworthy” and “if you defend them, you’re actively abetting racist oppression.”

Bari Weiss sums DEI up perfectly, explaining that it is an “ideological movement bent on recategorizing every American not as an individual, but as an avatar of an identity group ([link removed]) , his or her behavior prejudged accordingly, setting all of us up in a kind of zero-sum game.”

Ultimately, standards are lowered, personal responsibility iseliminated, quality suffers, and acrimony toward various ethnicgroups is sanctioned.

The country’s students have been heavily indoctrinated in DEI,and are directly acting on their brainwashing. For example, earlier this month, students at the exclusive Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) protested school policies relating to DEI, notably listing specific punishments they wanted to be added for “bias incident reports ([link removed]) ,” including alerting future colleges.

Parents Defending Education released a video ([link removed]) in mid-December, which showed a group of robot-like students at an IMSA protest rally chanting their frustrations. Students complained loudly about their preferred names and their pronouns not being used at school, and that “uneducated people” were allowed to work there. The list of student demands includes a “public outline of the possible consequences for students following a bias incident report” and “those consequences must have concrete impacts for the offender,” which include “detentions, removal from leadership positions, suspensions, expulsions, and notification to parents and potential future colleges.”

“You see our pain. You hear our voices. Then do something,” chanting students can be heard in the video.

Clearly, educational quality has been negatively affected as a result of DEI measures. Many states have abandoned high school exit exams as a graduation requirement for their students as standardized tests are becoming passé.

Sadly, policymakers in New York, New Jersey, and Florida –three of the nine states that still require students to pass certain exams to graduate – have introduced measures to make the tests optional ([link removed]) or do away with them completely. And Massachusetts is moving in the same direction.

In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has decided to eliminate the city’s 11 selective public high schools ([link removed]) , which use standardized tests to determine student admissions.

But now, there is pushback starting to kick up over DEI, in part due to a Supreme Court decision in June. SCOTUS found that the president and fellows of Harvard University had effectively engaged in racial discrimination in the name of diversity, a decision that functionally invalidated racially conscious college admissions ([link removed]) .

However, National Review’s Noah Rothman ([link removed]) notes that even before the Supreme Court’s ruling ([link removed]) , “colleges across the country had begun to pare back the bloat associated with the expansion of DEI-related managerial tasks and the non-faculty administrators who oversaw them. Republican lawmakers in states such as Florida, Texas, North and South Carolina, and Ohio secured legal prescriptions against discriminatory practices in hiring and blocked in-state schools from imposing DEI-related ideological litmus tests on students.”

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw ([link removed]) is pushing to halt federal funding to colleges and universities that force students to sign or make DEI-related statements. His bill would ban places of higher education from compelling students, staff, or applicants to “endorse an ideology that promotes the differential treatment of an individual or group of individuals based on race, color, or ethnicity.”

In Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt has just signed an executive order that would eliminate offices of diversity, equity, and inclusion. “I’m signing the executive order today to remind all state-funded institutions that we see all Oklahomans as equal, regardless of race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin,” Stitt said. The order requires a review and eventual elimination of spending on all DEI programs ([link removed]) .

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has attacked DEI programs at the state’scolleges and universities, repeating his assertion that such initiatives foster divisiveness ([link removed]) instead of inclusivity, during a recent news conference. Cox also vowed to end a requirement that higher education employees must sign a “diversity statement” as a term of employment.

“These diversity statements you have to sign to get hired, I think that is awful, bordering on evil, ([link removed]) ” Cox said during the televised news conference. “We’re forcing people into a political framework before they can even apply for a job with the state.”

On the downside, as of July of this year, while legislatures in 22 states had proposed 40 bills to regulate DEI in schools, only seven have become law, ([link removed]) according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

While much of the resistance to DEI has been coming from the college realm, the private sector is also awakening to the pernicious effects of the scam. Wealthy businessmen like Peter Thiel ([link removed]) and Elon Musk have been very outspoken against DEI, sharing their thoughts ([link removed]) in the media.

In fact, DEI is in retreat as corporations are getting nervous about reverse discrimination lawsuits. The American Alliance for Equal Rights has taken legal action or threatened top law firms ([link removed]) and other organizations ([link removed]) , alleging they have excluded white and Asian students from fellowship programs based on race.

According to Reuters, at least six major U.S. companies, including JPMorgan Chase, have modified policies meant to boost racial and ethnic representation that conservative groups threatened to sue over. Many companies have removed “diversity” from job titles.

In all, 25 companies ([link removed]) have received public shareholder letters since 2021 claiming their DEI programs “constitute illegal discrimination and a breach of the directors’ duties to investors.”

As a recent report from consulting firm Paradigm ([link removed]) notes, “2023 has undeniably shifted the DEI landscape ([link removed]) for years to come.”Paradigm adds, “External forces are no longer pushing companies to invest in DEI; instead, in some cases, external forces are pushing back on companies’ investment in DEI.”

Other than the blatant unfairness and civil and moral rot of DEI, there are very practical reasons for individuals to reject it. I will exit with my perennial question for the DEI-ists:

The next time you are trying to find a surgeon, will you pick the one who was licensed because she was the right minority or the one who earned her position the old-fashioned way? Now substitute auto mechanic and electrician for surgeon. How do you respond? And, do you want your favorite basketball team to be comprised of players of various ethnicities and genders, or the team that had the best damned players money could buy?

I can’t wait for your response.

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Larry Sand, a retired 28-year classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network ([link removed]) – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues. The views presented here are strictly his own.


The Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America
Fall 2023 Campus Report
By Sara Dogan

#1: Georgetown University, Black Law Student Association
#2: University of Buffalo, Young Democratic Socialists of America
#3: Boston University, Students for Justice in Palestine
#4: Florida State University, Students for a Democratic Society
#5: Louisiana State University, Cooperation Rouge and the Black Student Union
#6: University of New Mexico, Southwest Solidarity Network
#7: San Francisco State University, General Union of Palestinian Students
#8: University of Michigan, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality,
#9: University of Chicago, Students for Justice in Palestine
#10: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Young Democratic Socialists of America

The Public Funding of Campus Hate

The stated purpose of higher education is the search for truth and wisdom, but in recent years, the American college campus has become little more than an echo chamber where radical, far-left, ideology can be refined and then disseminated into the wider national culture. Today’s college campuses are ruled by idealogues who view the world through the Marxist categories of the oppressor and the oppressed and seek to destabilize and dismantle America in the hopes of fomenting a revolution. Backed by millions of dollars in federal and state monies, University administrators and faculty teach impressionable students that America was founded on “systemic racism,” a stain that allegedly lingers to this day. They fund Middle East Studies departments and institutes which openly propagate Jew-hatred and advocate for the destruction of Israel. They promote the racist ideology of Critical Race Theory and the sexist and unscientific doctrine of transgenderism, all while using the iron fist of
bureaucracy and speech codes to eliminate all dissent.

It should therefore not be surprising that student organizations and clubs on campus have become little more than vehicles of resentment and hatred directed at our nation, at Jewish students and supporters of Israel, and at the founding principles that are supposed to buttress the universities themselves—open discourse and academic freedom.

The following report names the Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America. These groups have openly and proudly aimed anti-Semitic libels at Jewish students and organizations. They have praised terrorists and cop-killers as heroes because the ideology of these criminals matches their own. They have endorsed racist policies and principles as a path toward achieving a more just society. They have taken it upon themselves to decide what views are allowable on publicly funded university campuses and which must be shouted down as “hate speech.”

Our aim in publishing this report is twofold. First, we hope to expose and reveal the radical hatred that the Left has woven into the fabric of our universities for all the world to see. Second, we demand that the universities named in this report launch investigations into the student organizations and groups named here, to see if their conduct violates federal and university policies. If the universities named herein refuse to take up that burden, we urge state and federal legislators to do it for them.

Our universities have become the cesspit of American society, where bad ideas and rhetoric stew, unhindered by reason, truth, or common sense, while the stench seeps out into our broader culture. Student organizations on campus play a key role in repackaging and rehabilitating failed philosophies like Marxism, Jew hatred, and racism as the shining path to a better future. We must expose and confront the radical ideologies and hatreds simmering within these collegiate organizations to impede their spread beyond the ivory tower.

Read the full report HERE. ([link removed])

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