A leading American newspaper has called on American colleges to “eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] bureaucracies and policies”.
“The moral degeneration of the presidents of three prestigious universities who recently refused to condemn calls for genocide is clearly symptomatic of a larger problem,” the magazine's editors. Washington Examiner he wrote on sunday. “The long-term solution must be to eliminate the bureaucracies and policies of diversity, equity and inclusion, root and branch, from higher education.”
The paper called on university boards to “fire presidents who will not act to curb the proliferation of anti-Semitic harassment on campus,” adding that the boards “should insist that DEI regimes be dismantled “.
However, the editors point out, it is these same boards that have been enabling DEI on campuses across the country.
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“Congress should pull its leash by making federal funding contingent on the proper application of First Amendment free speech principles,” they stated.
The examiner's editors criticized university leaders for lacking “an adequate ethical framework to ensure real academic freedom”.
“This appalling shortcoming was on full display at a Dec. 5 hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee when chairmen Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania were despicably wrong on a simple question of whether they would discipline students who called for the genocide of the Jews,” they write. “All three used the same words, 'depend[ing] about the context', refusing to answer yes or no. They sniffed even when Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) gave them second and third chances to claim that “calling for the genocide of the Jews … constitutes[s] bullying or harassment'”.
The reaction to his misunderstandings – “even from prominent leftists” – has been “ironic”, say the editors.
In fact, how BizPac Review reported Magill on Saturday “voluntarily tendered his resignation” as a result of the national outrage he helped fuel.
“These school presidents who claim to value free speech oversee campuses where using a disfavored pronoun can lead to students or faculty being investigated,” the Examiner's editors write.
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Readers are reminded that Harvard was named this year by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression as “the worst university in the country for weak speech protections.” The Ivy League institution can now boast the organization's first “zero” grade.
“A Harvard evolutionary biologist may be forced off campus for asserting the truth that there are only two biological sexes,” according to the editors. “However, calls for genocide do not necessarily count as harassment.”
“One of the reasons presidents are so confused or duplicitous about the boundaries between protected speech and unprotected, harmful conduct is that DEI regimes insist that it is not the actual words or actions in question that matter. , but the “identity” of the group of the speaker or actor.” they explain. “Instead of applying neutral principles to everyone, which is what the Constitution, laws, Supreme Court decisions and common decency require, DEI classifies people as oppressors or oppressed. They then penalize the harmless speech of the former while excusing the seriously injurious conduct of the latter.”
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“Anyone who is from or an open ally of an anti-Western group can threaten the intifada or join mobs forcing Jews to hide in library attics,” they continue. “But a teacher, after warning students that he would recite offensive language in a culturally contextual manner, can be fired just for saying the N-word out loud while reading Mark Twain.”
The editors say the double standards are “morally and legally inexcusable.” Worse, they are an “intended result of DEI”.
“Until DEI regimes are gutted and replaced with clear, neutral policies that protect speech and punish real threats, college presidents will defend the indefensible,” the Examiner editors write. “If college boards don't fix this, Congress should use its power of the purse to force DEI's dismantling.”
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