The DEI scam is now even being called out for what it is by a liberal commentator on CNN. Will the service academies take note at America’s growing anger at the DEI rot in education?
Watch the whole episode below (or read the transcript) or at least, watch this short 2-minute excerpt of Fareed Zakaria on CNN saying:
“We have to understand the broad shift that has taken place at elite universities, which have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.”
“American universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas, many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion.”
Watch the whole 9 minute segment:
TRANSCRIPT
Hello, everyone. I’m Laura Ingram. This is the Ingram Angle from Washington tonight. Thank you as always for being with us. University of Distraction, that’s the focus of tonight’s Angle.
Now colleges, universities, they spend a lot of time raising money and they work, of course, to appeal to the donors, to the alums and to prospective students by talking about their mission and their core values.
Harvard President Video Excerpt:
“What are the key values that drive Harvard forward? For me, they are our commitments to excellence, to opportunity and to impact. Those three together are really the ones that propel us into the future.”
A commitment to excellence? Literally no one who saw her testify last week, who’s watched what’s happened at Harvard over the past 20 plus years, can say that.
Because excellence conveys objective merit and we all see that the best often loses out to the mediocre at Harvard and elsewhere because the best isn’t diverse enough.
Harvard President Video Excerpt:
“What is the role of a university president in today’s world? Internally to our own community. I see my role as being the person who’s always looking beyond the horizon to what’s coming, but also what can be, and then figuring out how to ready the campus and the campus community for that future.”
Administrative gibberish. This means nothing. It’s the kind of milquetoast language written by consultants. And the fact is, Ms. Gay didn’t think for a millisecond that her own obsession with diversity, equity and inclusion is antithetical to her stated mission of excellence.
Of course, it doesn’t prepare people for the real world either. Instead, DEI fosters a sense of resentment that makes Harvard students less likely to succeed or even to be happy.
But no one ever presses her on these obvious concerns. Now, given these facts, it’s not surprising that the woman who clearly could not state the university’s position on calls for genocide last week, that she believes she’s entitled to remain as president.
Now, why should she think otherwise? After all, she’s been rewarded for thinking this way her entire career.
And for as much as Ms. Gay professes to love and respect Harvard University, she refuses to do the honorable thing, which the U Penn president Liz McGill, did do on Saturday by resigning.
Now with each passing day that Ms. Gaye remains in office, the reputation and credibility of Harvard is damaged.
Donors are less likely to contribute and Harvard degrees will have less credibility.
She doesn’t care. She effectively is daring the Board of Overseers to fire her. But they shouldn’t have to.
For her entire career, Ms. Gay has been bubble wrapped in her own racial privilege as she focused on the supposed racial privilege of others.
And because Jewish-Americans are part of the group that the left believes are an integral aspect of the corrupt white power structure in America, Ms. Gay didn’t think that equivocating on genocide would be a problem.
Meanwhile, more than 700 faculty members have decided to rally around Ms. Gay and urge the board of Overseers not to fire her.
My goodness, these people just aren’t that smart. Again, one can hardly blame Ms. Gay for feeling special and protected here, though. After all, she’s glided through her career without the type of rigorous accountability that we should expect of anyone at the top of the academic world.
And that’s why she was able to get away with sloppy scholarship and why we’re now only hearing about charges that she borrowed liberally from others without attribution in her dissertation and in other published papers. That’s according to documents obtained by Chris Rufo.
She felt untouchable, which is why she felt no hesitation in helping take down a brilliant young Harvard economist, Roland Fryer, who dared to challenge the mantra of systemic racism.
Video Excerpt:
“Rollins work represents a mortal threat to some of the most powerful black people at Harvard. Consider Claudine Gay. She’s a silky smooth corporate operator. Her signature accomplishment is a Harvard-wide inequality initiative.”
“The world is awake to inequality and systemic racism and anti-black racism in particular, really like never before.”
“Claudine Gay asked the president of the school to revoke Roland’s tenure. President declines because that’s not happened even once in the last hundred years. But this punishment is career death.”
Now, libertarian writer Andrew Sullivan offers more insights into how Ms Gay enforces the social justice orthodoxy, writing that this is the same president who watched a brilliant popular professor, Carol Hooven, be effectively hounded out of her position after a public shaming campaign because she dared to state on television that biological sex is binary.
So the very existence of professors such as Hooven and Fryer were threats to the left and especially the Claudine Gay, because deep down, I guess she knows that she doesn’t deserve the title that she has.
And anyone right now who tries to minimize this, which is academic rot at its core at any of our most elite institutions, they’re only going to be swept up in this firestorm because the pressure on American universities is not abating.
Anyone who supports this nonsense will simply join the masses of overpaid and underperforming academics and administrators who should lose their jobs.
The only way to is to tell Ms. Gay to resign and tell the MIT President, Sally Kornbluth, to do the same.
And if they don’t resign, fire them and eliminate the position of every administrator and faculty member employed to continue the race and gender hustle.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who is fairly liberal himself, but very bright and a graduate of Yale University (when that still meant something, by the way), made a strong case over the weekend:
Video Excerpt of Fareed Zakara on CNN:
“We have to understand the broad shift that has taken place at elite universities, which have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas. American universities have been neglecting a core focus on excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas, many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion.”
It would have been nice if he said that over the last 30 years, but we’ll take it.
Now, it would be a mistake if these boards and these universities thought that they can ride this storm out. They cannot.
It would be a mistake if they think that because of their big endowments and their huge that they can weather the storm. They cannot.
“None of this will affect its recruiting,” they’re going to say. “We’re still going to get the best and brightest.”
Remember, that’s what the US military thought before it went woke and then began to see a huge drop in recruitment.
Now, when these young people graduate and they have to convince their employers that they learned something, despite the fact that everyone at Harvard has basically the same GPA, what’s the average at 3.8?
They’re going to wish that they had let these women go.
Now, look, don’t get me wrong. The longer these academic activists–and that’s what they are–stay in power, the better for us, cable news. Our show is helping lead the way on this. But think of the advice that the Angle has given the establishment in education and politics just recently:
We told them to get rid of Biden, but they dug in. He’s now getting creamed in states like Michigan and Georgia and even losing in Pennsylvania to Trump.
We told them to stop the madness in Ukraine. They dug in and now even our Pentagon knows that Ukraine is headed for a disappointment.
We told them to enforce the border. They dug in and now the public is enraged and our cities are being destroyed.
We told them to stop using the government to harass political opponents and call it detente on these political prosecutions. But they dug in and it’s only made Trump stronger and further harm the reputation of the DOJ and the FBI.
But now we’re telling them to excise the cancer that is DEI in all aspects of university hiring and admissions or they will continue to see their prestige and their influence suffer.
Will they have the brains or the courage to do the right thing? And end what Andrew Sullivan described as the hard bigotry of no expectations?
Some have suggested that liberals are sleepwalking into disaster.
But that’s not true. They’re running toward disaster as fast as they can.
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Original video: LAURA INGRAHAM: This is academic rot at its core (Fox News, 11 DEC 23)
Dershowitz: Universities Should Immediately Abolish DEI And Identity Studies Departments (Real Clear Politics, 12 DEC 23)
“DEI is the main cause of anti-Semitism on campus today. It divides students along racial and religious lines and creates a zero-sum game. If you are in favor of one group, you’re against another group. It is a real problem, it is anti-intellectual. It is dishonest in many ways.
“It uses the word diversity, but it means only racial diversity. Less than 3% of the faculty at Harvard identify as conservative.
“They say equity, which suggests equality. They get the exact opposite. Indeed, under equity, if you dare to quote Martin Luther King’s “Dream” of a world where children are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, you’ve committed a microaggression. . . . (read more)
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