Parents push back on American colleges promoting DEI initiatives: 'DEI is dangerous'

Does anyone actually know the definition of equal anymore? Overreach in any direction is wrong. Climate change, education, taxation, government, etc.

Thank you my friend SFC (Join to see) for posting the perspective from foxnews.com contributors Elizabeth Economou, Nicole Pelletiere that Parents of college students are pushing back against the colleges which promoted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

DEI workshops are literally re-education camps
James Lindsay explains the parallel between China’s Maoist brainwashing tactics and America’s diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives—and it’s absolutely frightening.
https://rumble.com/v1e2t9h-dei-workshops-are-literally-re-education-camps.html


I concur with Rebecca Friedrichs, that 'diversity' should "include respectful debate of diverse opinions, open and honest discussion, respect for others, even when we disagree."

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Parents push back on American colleges promoting DEI initiatives: 'DEI is dangerous'
Some universities across America are requiring compliance from faculty in the form of signed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements, as conditions for tenure or promotion — arguing that DEI across college campuses is a top priority.
However, there may be growing pushback in some areas from faculty as well as from parents — who claim that the DEI agenda actually challenges the diversity of viewpoints and opinions of students within the college environment.
Some say it also promotes a culture of fear and intimidation.
In the city of Seattle, for example, roughly 40% of the University of Washington's faculty recently rejected — or abstained from voting on — a measure that would have required faculty members seeking advancement to provide a statement demonstrating their support of DEI.

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"The fact that [the vote] was stopped is unprecedented," Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the university and an advocate for viewpoint diversity, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.
Students who hold even moderate viewpoints are often afraid to express themselves on campus today, one professor says.
"Viewpoint diversity is part of diversity, equity and inclusion, and we don’t believe they are in conflict," he also told Fox News Digital.
"Our campuses should be, and are, places for thoughtful and rigorous exchanges of ideas."
"Placing value on diversity, equity and inclusion introduces more perspectives to these discussions, not fewer," Balta added.
Yet for Mass and others who say they desire a true diversity of thought restored in the college campus environment, the failed measure appears to be a win.

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"Requiring all faculty members to support a social/political agenda favored by one segment of society not only politicizes the university, but represents ‘compelled speech,’" he noted recently in a blog post.
It's "a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution at a public university," he added.
That blog post has received more than 70,000 page views since early July 2022.

DEI advocates are said to focus not on equal opportunity, but on the ideology of equal outcomes or equity.
Fox News Digital reached out to two other colleges that seem to endorse DEI initiatives, according to their websites.
"I suspect most parents don’t understand what’s happening here."

Mass addressed the DEI agenda of many of them.
"They believe that the university should be biased in its admissions and resources to ensure equal outcomes for all groups, with particular attention to a small number of favored ‘unrepresented’ groups," Mass told Fox News Digital.
"I suspect most parents don’t understand what’s happening here," he said. "Parents that we serve are from the whole state. There’s a wide variety of political views from people who send their kids here."
"Then there’s people from outside. We have a lot of foreign students," he added. "They're coming here to get a good education."
Mass said he believes that parents have a huge role to play in limiting the DEI agenda on campus.
"There’s a lot that parents can do," Mass said, noting that parents can decide not to make contributions to their child's college.
"There are a lot of tools to pressure the university — and if they did, it would have an impact," Mass predicted.

DEI advocates 'misuse our trusted words,' says one mom
Rebecca Friedrichs, a California-based mother of two grown sons, told Fox News Digital that parents may be "unaware of the destructive nature of DEI."

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She said that "DEI proponents (and their allies) use linguistic gymnastics to change the very meaning of words, in order to manipulate the masses into believing propaganda."
"DEI is dangerous … and many parents don’t discover this destructive agenda until it’s too late."
"We collectively understand the word 'diversity' to include respectful debate of diverse opinions, open and honest discussion, respect for others, even when we disagree."

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Thank you my friend SFC (Join to see) for posting the perspective from foxnews.com contributors Elizabeth Economou, Nicole Pelletiere that Parents of college students are pushing back against the colleges which promoted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

DEI workshops are literally re-education camps
James Lindsay explains the parallel between China’s Maoist brainwashing tactics and America’s diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives—and it’s absolutely frightening.
https://rumble.com/v1e2t9h-dei-workshops-are-literally-re-education-camps.html

I concur with Rebecca Friedrichs, that 'diversity' should "include respectful debate of diverse opinions, open and honest discussion, respect for others, even when we disagree."

Background from {[.foxnews.com/lifestyle/parents-push-back-american-colleges-dei-initiatives-dangerous]}
Parents push back on American colleges promoting DEI initiatives: 'DEI is dangerous'
Some universities across America are requiring compliance from faculty in the form of signed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements, as conditions for tenure or promotion — arguing that DEI across college campuses is a top priority.
However, there may be growing pushback in some areas from faculty as well as from parents — who claim that the DEI agenda actually challenges the diversity of viewpoints and opinions of students within the college environment.
Some say it also promotes a culture of fear and intimidation.
In the city of Seattle, for example, roughly 40% of the University of Washington's faculty recently rejected — or abstained from voting on — a measure that would have required faculty members seeking advancement to provide a statement demonstrating their support of DEI.

HARVARD GRADUATE WALKS OUT OF MERRICK GARLAND'S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
"The fact that [the vote] was stopped is unprecedented," Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the university and an advocate for viewpoint diversity, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.
Students who hold even moderate viewpoints are often afraid to express themselves on campus today, one professor says.
"Viewpoint diversity is part of diversity, equity and inclusion, and we don’t believe they are in conflict," he also told Fox News Digital.
"Our campuses should be, and are, places for thoughtful and rigorous exchanges of ideas."
"Placing value on diversity, equity and inclusion introduces more perspectives to these discussions, not fewer," Balta added.
Yet for Mass and others who say they desire a true diversity of thought restored in the college campus environment, the failed measure appears to be a win.

IOWA HIRES TWO NEW DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION POSITIONS AS THEY CONTINUE TO FACE RACE LITIGATION
"Requiring all faculty members to support a social/political agenda favored by one segment of society not only politicizes the university, but represents ‘compelled speech,’" he noted recently in a blog post.
It's "a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution at a public university," he added.
That blog post has received more than 70,000 page views since early July 2022.

DEI advocates are said to focus not on equal opportunity, but on the ideology of equal outcomes or equity.
Fox News Digital reached out to two other colleges that seem to endorse DEI initiatives, according to their websites.
"I suspect most parents don’t understand what’s happening here."

Mass addressed the DEI agenda of many of them.
"They believe that the university should be biased in its admissions and resources to ensure equal outcomes for all groups, with particular attention to a small number of favored ‘unrepresented’ groups," Mass told Fox News Digital.
"I suspect most parents don’t understand what’s happening here," he said. "Parents that we serve are from the whole state. There’s a wide variety of political views from people who send their kids here."
"Then there’s people from outside. We have a lot of foreign students," he added. "They're coming here to get a good education."
Mass said he believes that parents have a huge role to play in limiting the DEI agenda on campus.
"There’s a lot that parents can do," Mass said, noting that parents can decide not to make contributions to their child's college.
"There are a lot of tools to pressure the university — and if they did, it would have an impact," Mass predicted.

DEI advocates 'misuse our trusted words,' says one mom
Rebecca Friedrichs, a California-based mother of two grown sons, told Fox News Digital that parents may be "unaware of the destructive nature of DEI."

CALIFORNIA SPENT $500M ON DEI INITIATIVES, INCLUDING $50K ON ‘RACIAL EQUITY’ FISH DEPT. TRAININGS: NONPROFIT
She said that "DEI proponents (and their allies) use linguistic gymnastics to change the very meaning of words, in order to manipulate the masses into believing propaganda."
"DEI is dangerous … and many parents don’t discover this destructive agenda until it’s too late."
"We collectively understand the word 'diversity' to include respectful debate of diverse opinions, open and honest discussion, respect for others, even when we disagree."

Thank you my friend CPO Nate S. for mentioning me.

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