These DEI offices are the bureaucracy of the bureaucracy. They exist to push leftist ideology throughout the institution, hounding school administrators, staff, and professors to toe the line on “anti-racism” and gender ideology.
I SOMEHOW slogged my way through it, but one doesn’t need to read the entire Report of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, or even its executive summary, to grasp its governing credo. The ‘Equity’ of the title immediately betrays its New-Marxist worldview.
British educator Katharine Birbalsingh used to look to America for inspiration. Now she sees the U.S. as a threat to schools in her own land. American ideas on race and identity are making “alarming inroads” in British education, she says, with activists demanding that “white privilege” be rooted out of the curriculum, the teaching of history be “decolonized,” and “systemic racism” be acknowledged as the primary cause when minority students fail.
Both of their exits were related to what unfolded with Twitter’s attempts to stop The Daily Wire from streaming the documentary on Thursday evening. Musk confirmed this on Twitter.
Diversity, equity and inclusion offices become weapons to intimidate and limit speech. Critical race theory is becoming institutionalized across American universities, and a major reason is the educational bureaucracy. Most universities now have offices for diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, that exercise a broad writ on campus and act as speech police within the university.
“I’m tired of talking about woke culture. Free speech is not some right-week reframing of whatever — it’s the foundation of Western civilization,” Russian British comedian Konstantin Kisin recently told the Oxford Union Society.
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