So-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs have become the official ideology at a number of American universities today, including in Texas. DEI, masking itself as minority recruitment tools for students and faculty, distorts the affirmative terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion into divisive and alienating policies that weaken the academic strength of our students and faculty and alienate many, including minorities.
Key Points
- DEI, masking itself as minority recruitment tools for students and faculty, distorts the affirmative terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion into divisive and alienating policies that weaken the academic strengthof our students and faculty and alienate many, including minorities.
- Our country can either have thevision of humanity guiding DEI or it can have the moral vision of the1964 Civil Rights Act, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution. It cannot have both.
- “Diversity,” in practice on our campuses, has come to signify an anti-merit perspective, leading a number of universities to lean toward banning words in job descriptions such as, “meritocracy,” “color-blind,”“best qualified,” and “good fit.”
- The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s insistence on color-blind equality, or meritocracy, would make him persona non grata in today’s DEI world.
- DEI’s notion of equity, or equal outcomes, stands in direct opposition to the thought of James Madison, hailed as “the Father of the Constitution.” For Madison, equal opportunity naturally yields unequal results—so long as people are free to express their different opinions and exercise their different capacities.