This just means that NEH awards have to be used to do things that are racist and transphobic. Anti-anti-racist is just racist. Anti-anti-transphobic is just transphobic. - ThreadSky

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kevinbuist.com • 1 day ago

This just means that NEH awards have to be used to do things that are racist and transphobic. Anti-anti-racist is just racist. Anti-anti-transphobic is just transphobic.

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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kevinbuist.com•1 day ago

Also "discriminatory equity ideology" is a completely insane phrase. Equity means non-discriminatory!

raflw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Building a handicapped ramp discriminates against the able-bodied.
Don't ask me how, but in 2025 those are the new rules.

kevinbuist.com•1 day ago

And yes I realize that the acronym for "discriminatory equity ideology" is DEI.

kevinbuist.com•1 day ago

These direct attacks on DEI are alarming and overtly racist, but I think they might backfire. Let me explain...

kevinbuist.com•1 day ago

If there's a legitimate critique of corporate and government mandated DEI initiatives, it would be that these programs promoted a didactic, legalistic approach to treating others with respect and dignity. They turn compassion and humanity into check boxes, mandated trainings, etc. ...

kevinbuist.com•1 day ago

So one way to dismantle these programs would be to simply remove the bureaucratic structures that have grown up around them. No more trainings, no more language policing, no more compliance officers. ...

kevinbuist.com•1 day ago

But the administration is doing the exact opposite of that! They are replacing legalistic structures of compliance with even more draconian policies! They are banning words! They are attempting to outlaw ideologies! They are inventing new levels of inscrutable jargon!

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