(01-07-2024, 05:12 PM)WingerDinger Wrote:

(01-07-2024, 03:24 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Can you believe this came from USA Today? Like most MSM outlets, they're typically fluffers in a Democrat bath house. Things must be getting bad. 

With Claudine Gay out, Harvard can double down on DEI or embrace freedom and true diversity

...DEI has curbed free speech on campus
Gay started fumbling Harvard’s response to the Oct. 7 attack right away, offering no institutional moral clarity. And after her shocking testimony, along with two other university presidents, at a congressional hearing on antisemitism last month, it became obvious that Gay held a double standard on which students deserve protection.

Yet that is what DEI policies and principles do – they create a hierarchy of oppressor and oppressed. Contrary to its purported mission, DEI divides us as human beings and uplifts the “oppressed” at all costs.

The growth of these diversity and inclusion bureaucracies come not only at a large fiscal cost – but a cost to freedom as well. It’s not a coincidence that universities’ heavy-handed speech codes have flourished along with this administrative bloat.

“The mass bureaucratization of universities has been a disaster for free speech and academic freedom on campus,” Greg Lukianoff, who heads the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), recently told me. “Those staffers have been leading the charge for cancellations, new speech codes, new microaggression policies.”...

Harvard should fall back in line after a while. They've lost mega $$$ from donors.. That can only last so long. They have tenured "professors" to pay..