DEI Has an Antisemitism Problem
glennloury.substack.com
DEI Has an Antisemitism Problem
with Tabia Lee
Proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion portray themselves as the defenders of minority interests. But with the Gaza War fueling growing concerns about campus antisemitism, DEI officers have found themselves either ill-equipped to deal with the issue or uninterested in doing so. In this clip, Tabia Lee, a former DEI officer at De Anza Community College, describes what happened when she attempted to bring attention to antisemitism on her campus.
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Focusing too much on Harvard and *school policy is a misdirection IMO. The real issue is a careful re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement. Not whether African Americans deserve equal treatment under the law, but whether the political apparatus and bureaucracies born from the 1960's needs to be totally ripped apart and the tenets of social progress reimagined.
Cancel culture is a simple formula: strong bureaucracy + low legitimacy. Snowflake culture is what happens when you take the noble cause of black civil rights, continue to bolt on oppressed group after group to it until 40% of the population is "protected" and free speech is impossible. The establishment's term "democracy" is really this parallel legal system for the disaffected.
Skeptics will say: that means possibly returning to a highly race-conscious society. How is that any different from where we're already headed?
90's liberals like Maher are the first to beat their chests on social progress re: race, sex, gender -- yet the first to decry the excesses of woke as a derailment. Woke isn't a derailment but the 90's at maturity, after 3 decades of bureaucratic failure.
Stephen Pinker wrote a piece in the Boston Globe on how to "save" Harvard: establish institutional neutrality, affirm free speech, dismantle DEI. This is so ridiculous because the issue with Harvard is equally about law as it is "school policy".
The US leadership class in 2023 is trapped in a paradox: its legitimacy comes from so-called social advancement/progress, yet these emerging, radicalized movements are a direct response to their mismanagement of these social issues. You can call me names for calling out the Civil Rights Movement all day — sorry, don’t care. I think it benefits everyone to see a healthy Baltimore of Chicago, or for black America to be vibrant. Yet the underlying arrangements require continued misery.
This IMO is so much bigger than school policy.
Professor Amy Wax has an anti-black problem. And Glenn Loury is overprotective of her. Amy Wax is a buddy of a prominent white separatist and supremacist, Jared Taylor. Interesting!