Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (sometimes belonging) are surprisingly stupid ideas. You’d have to be an idiot to think it is about the unification of demographically different people. Even the most optimistic among us, when seeing DEI in practice, can honestly accept that its goals are anything but what it pretends.
In a module on “Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging,” which included 10 multiple choice questions, the training asked students how “diversity and inclusion help create a healthy, positive campus environment.” Students who said these values do not create such an environment—or that they give “unfair advantages” to “people from marginalized identity groups”—were told that their answers were “incorrect,” according to screenshots shared with the Washington Free Beacon by the First Amendment watchdog Speech First.
The Diversity “test” prohibits any opinion but the one they’ve approved, and if you don’t select the correct answer, you are excluded. You could be the queerest person of color on the planet, and being you means you’re not one of them because you expressed the wrong opinion. That’s DEI from start to finish.
DEI campuses regularly exclude people and opinions with which they disagree. There is no intellectual equity, diversity, or inclusion. In fact, people presumed to have the wrong ideas by association are negatively stereotyped and then excluded. You said nice things about X )or refused to say bad things about them); therefore, any words—even though we’ve no idea what you might say—present a threat to the collective. This is discrimination justified by a false moral purpose.
In the example above, University of South Carolina students “who don’t answer at least 80% of the questions politically correctly are not allowed to register for classes.” This is not a private school. They take and spend taxpayer dollars, but only on students who pass their special test.
Cherise Trump, the executive director of Speech First, said the requirement was “a blatant attempt at coercive brainwashing.”
“Students here are clearly expected to maintain a certain viewpoint designated by the state school or else they risk losing access to courses,” Trump told the Free Beacon. “Online modules like the one at University of South Carolina clearly work against the spirit of the First Amendment.”
Reached for comment about Trump’s concerns, a university spokesman, Jeffrey Stensland, claimed the diversity module was “optional, not mandatory,” and that students only needed to complete units on alcohol and sexual assault. But an online portal for USC’s 35,000 students says otherwise, indicating the diversity unit is “required” for all undergraduates.
Inclusion and belonging require you to at least talk and act like a proglodyte. Failure to comply could cost you your spot at the University.
Given the requirement and context, that sounds like a good thing, but not everyone will get admitted to another school, so if you had your heart set on earning a degree in something useful – USC does still offer a few of those – you’ll need to play along or join team blue. The trouble with playing along is you’ll be surrounded by at least a few, if not a majority, or true believers. The ideological cult is doing business as a place of higher learning, and it’s not free to go there (up to 36K/year for out-of-state students); it is not diverse or inclusive at all. That’s a lie. You’ll have to keep your opinions to yourself or adopt theirs, and we’ve got enough idiots in this country already.
How about a lovely trade school? You’ll save a fortune, have no student debt; you’ll start earning sooner, probably more income, and no one will try to convince you that cutting the genitals off of children is justice.
