It's shocking (though not surprising) that the media doesn't freak out about the levels of blatant racism and sexism Trump and Republicans have displayed. Like clearly they can mobilize when Biden has a bad debate. But this doesn't reach that same level?
Even if this is challenged in court the current SCOTUS is going to interpret the 14th Amendment as guaranteeing 'color blind' civil rights, that anything racially conscious is discriminatory. Which is probably the long term goal here.
Universities often define DEI broadly, including non-traditional, disabled, first-gen, and low-income students. While institutional racism means many first-gen and low-income students are minorities, diversity isn’t just about ethnicity—though it remains key to the mission. He's just racist.
I wonder what the messaging will be when they find no improprieties and all of the non-white candidates they will be investigating are more than qualified? It sounds like Comer's Biden impeachment committee all over.
I'd bet ALL of these unis are complying w/ 2023 SFFA decision on admissions.
Now that they've been given an inch, Trump et al want to take a mile by eliminating all outreach, scholarships, student organizations, celebrations of firsts, or events that hint at inclusiveness. Then start on curricula.
The collaborators aren't going to be spared. Universities should give this regime nothing. Fight back, damn it! I am so tired of people with power and money enough to be a legitimate threat bowing down to this lunatic.
I rolled my eyes so hard during the election cycle when I kept seeing groups like "LGBT for trump" or "Blacks for trump" (that one was actually called that).
I was sitting thinking "what's next, jews for hitler?"
And it's maddening to still see "anti-DEI" in a headline about something that's just blatant racism.
This is the administration of someone who campaigned by lying non-stop about everything. (Really! It was in the news!) You don't have to take their word for it about what they're doing.
Thanks for helping him out with the CR, Chuck. Giving him a win is going to work out great for that base you don’t seem to know or care about. But at least you’re a real saint for the segregationist crowd.
Also, it's totally fine to fire people who have merit and have proved themselves but are non-white, women, disabled, or lgbtq+ and it totally makes sense, trust us we aren't just supremecist assholes.
I agree but he packaged it into ‘fight for fairness’ and there are people out there who eat this shit and wash it down with cool-aid. This is really bad.
Both of our kids have gone there, and the lack of diversity was a definite negative in evaluating colleges. Their attendance didn’t help, unfortunately. It is mighty white there. Hard to pass up that in-state tuition, however.
Madison seems to prioritize its football team over the men’s basketball team. Could that explain why better basketball players of minority background from even within the state decide to play elsewhere?
Fun fact: When I was a sophomore at UW-Madison, the school was so white that they got in trouble for photoshopping a black student's face on the undergrad application packet to show that they had more diversity.
I don’t remember the onion story making fun of it but this incident definitely happened while I was there. (Another fun fact: The Onion began in Madison tho)
Meanwhile he's out there proving he doesn't have the intelligence to have passed high school but somehow has a degree. He thinks we all bought our degrees like him & his buddies.
Or lost a job they wanted there. These are Free Soilers. They left the coast to avoid the diversity in the first place. Other kinds of people were never welcome.
It was explicit at the time of their founding, particularly the public land grant universities. Segregation is why there are so many public HBCUs in the South.
Jobs like air traffic controller require very smart, hardworking, capable people willing to deal with a lot of stress for 1980’s wages. White boys with those qualities have a plethora of opportunity. Women and black people totally qualified will do it for those wages.
The biggest bait and switch in history. After centuries of enslavement and discrimination, and affirmative action for themselves, white Americans have discovered racial equality. LMFAO. They are such a pathetic bunch of losers.
The biggest college affirmative action program in the country is for white men.
It is an open secret that colleges lower the bar for men in order to keep their numbers up. And that more qualified women lose out so that schools can enroll less qualified men.
Scientists are now saying it looks like Europeans were all brown people only 3.000yrs ago, wonder what MAGA say about that . Sorry forgot they don't believe in science.
Hmm, I wonder if they'll also investigate those same colleges for giving admission preference to children of alumni. Because admissions should all be based on merit, right?
DEI isn't just about race.
If you aren't white.
If you are a woman.
If you are disabled.
If you are an injured vet.
Apparently he has gripes against dwarfs.
etc etc etc.
If you aren't Trump's idea of a perfect TV host, you are out.
They think whites are superior in every way. Ergo, any position not filled by a white person is the result of discrimination. Soon they will come for corporate CEOs, any position a white person wants for himself.
What's idiotic is how the courts are willing to even consider such cases.
Trump is mentally ill and genuinely stupid. Ya put the two together & what have ya got? The leader of the Republican Party! In Trump's two hour Joint Gibberish to Congress he lied & every Republican swore to it! If he told them they all ate dog turds for breakfast they would have cheered wildly!
90 countries came to our aid after the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. Now Trump is shitting on all of those same countries. But that's how Trumps treats all of his "friends". Put another way: Trump has no friends, now the United States is losing all of its friends thanks to a fucking idiot troll!
The race science aficionados dotting the Trump admin think that "merit" and "entrance exam scores" are synonymous terms, so they expect any true merit based system, at a minimum, to reflect the racial disparities that show up in SAT/ACT scores.
US universities, of course, have a more holistic system that takes into account multiple ways to consider college preparedness and merit, but they think that's just a thin rationalization to discriminate in favor of the "inferior" races.
Compliance doesn't matter either. No matter how universities try to placate Trump it will never be enough. He'll view any concession as weakness and push for more. The universities will still be defunded in the end, even if they give up every right.
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Now that they've been given an inch, Trump et al want to take a mile by eliminating all outreach, scholarships, student organizations, celebrations of firsts, or events that hint at inclusiveness. Then start on curricula.
I was sitting thinking "what's next, jews for hitler?"
This is the administration of someone who campaigned by lying non-stop about everything. (Really! It was in the news!) You don't have to take their word for it about what they're doing.
Thanks for helping him out with the CR, Chuck. Giving him a win is going to work out great for that base you don’t seem to know or care about. But at least you’re a real saint for the segregationist crowd.
And YET, enough of U.S. 'granted admission' to OUR White House to an ORANGEtang. How can THAT NOT be a DEI vote????
http://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/uw-booklet-student-added/
Why aren't we in the kitchen?
next: 100% white AND male
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/02/19/sffa-president-affirmative-action-bans-growing-impact
George Wallace, champion of meritocracy and color-blind admissions.
Get in on your merits, not your last name.
They are firing the Black women in high positions of authority in academia.
Let’s not disappear race(ism) in this. . .
They are firing the Black women in high positions of authority in academia.
Let’s not disappear race(ism) in this. . .
It is an open secret that colleges lower the bar for men in order to keep their numbers up. And that more qualified women lose out so that schools can enroll less qualified men.
When is Trump going to get on that?
The first thing he did was fire the female head of the Coast Guard. And then kick her out of her house in 3 hours. Can't have women running things!
The women he has in his cab report to him and are just figureheads.
If you aren't white.
If you are a woman.
If you are disabled.
If you are an injured vet.
Apparently he has gripes against dwarfs.
etc etc etc.
If you aren't Trump's idea of a perfect TV host, you are out.
What's idiotic is how the courts are willing to even consider such cases.
Better to fight now than be a boiled frog.
All they need to know is your race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
Merit means nothing to them.