Republicans should walk the walk when it comes to university DEI programs
Zachary Faria
Video Embed
The renewed GOP focus on rooting out racism and discrimination from higher education has proven to be a necessity over the past several years. It is incumbent upon Republicans to continue to defang the liberal diversity, equity, and inclusion indoctrination programs on college campuses.
Iowa is the latest state to jump on this train, with the state’s Board of Regents recently approving the elimination of “any DEI functions not necessary for compliance or accreditation” at the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, and Iowa State University. The three universities combine for an enrollment of nearly 73,000 students. The policy approvals include banning affirmative action and compulsory pronoun policies, as well as professing support for “intellectual and philosophical diversity.”
BIDEN MIGHT BE DEMOCRATS’ BIGGEST PROBLEM CONVINCING BLACK AND LATINO VOTERS NOT TO SUPPORT TRUMP
This follows Florida and Texas banning DEI programs at public universities and Wisconsin Republicans moving to defund DEI positions and bureaucracies in the University of Wisconsin system. Given that those DEI programs are responsible for both free speech violations and for promoting the antisemitism that is now flourishing on several college campuses, it is only the right thing to do. Universities should not be preaching to young adults that the world is divided by skin color into oppressors and the oppressed and that anything “the oppressed” do is justified, up to and including violence.
This should be a no-brainer in every state where Republicans have the power and authority to make these changes. These DEI programs are ideologically slanted and drive students to embrace racism and tokenization. It encourages them to feel hatred for people just because they do not look like them. It employs dozens to hundreds of useless bureaucrats at each university who peddle this racism to impressionable young adults. Higher education is a liberal cesspool, but that doesn’t mean it must stay that way. Republicans should take the initiative and begin draining it.
That is what Iowa is doing, following in the footsteps of other states such as Florida. It isn’t enough for Republicans to just complain about the racial brain rot taking place in higher education anymore. It is time for them to get proactive and start cleaning up universities, and that begins with clearing out useless and damaging DEI offices.