Tag: Academia

Giving DEI the Pink Slip

“Major institutions have started rolling back their diversity bureaucracies: Last week, the University of Florida announced that it had dissolved its DEI department and terminated the employment of all DEI officials. UF was spending an astonishing $5 million per year on DEI programs…”

Social Justice™ Invents Morally Degenerate ‘Positionality Statement’

“This is the legacy of postmodernism, in which there is no such thing as objective reality — only subjective interpretations of it. There is no truth or reconciliation; only ideological war, forever and always.”

Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized At Least 40 Times

“Experts who reviewed the allegations against Charleston said that they ranged from minor plagiarism to possible data fraud and warrant an investigation. Some also argued that Charleston had committed a more serious scholarly sin than Gay, who resigned earlier this month.”

Americans Losing Trust in Nearly All Professions

“Gallup’s 2023 Honesty and Ethics poll asked 800 respondents from Dec. 1 to Dec. 20 to rate the honesty and ethical standards of 23 listed professions. Nearly all answered negatively compared to previous years, following a downward trend in ratings since 2019:”

Claudine Gay and the Collapse of DIE Ideology, Part 1

“Working class whites now subsist in a culture that blames them as a group for history’s mistakes, like slavery. It claims they still benefit, in ways they find utterly invisible, from “systemic” or “structural” racism: the first premise of the critical race theory that began to come of age during…

Afro-Chemistry. It’s a Thing at Rice. Are You F-ing Kidding Me?

“In Chem 125, Johnson will instruct her undergrads on how to “apply chemical tools and analysis to understand black life in the US,” along with her “personal reflections and proposals for addressing inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”