OPINION: ‘Social justice’ and ‘social change’ dominate the major university in this conservative state
programming. The university’s DEI bureaucracy has now embedded itself within virtually every administrative and academic unit. These programs employ dozens of full-time staff and organize hundreds of seminars, trainings, courses, reports, student groups, and political activism.
For the MEC, identity is the foundation of politics. The program’s workshop series begins by focusing students on their identities and categorizing them along the axis of oppressor and oppressed. In the"Power and Privilege" training, MEC administers a"Privilege Self-Assessment," which includes checkboxes about race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
The sexuality training seminars begin with a"land acknowledgement," implying that European whites are illegitimate colonizers on land"traditionally inhabited by Comanche, Coahuiltecan, Apache, Tonkawa, [and] Mexica" tribal populations. As with race, the university promotes the idea that straight, heterosexual students must atone for their"cisgender privilege" and"heterosexual privilege.
As a professor of educational psychology and African and African Diaspora Studies explained,"white supremacy is so pernicious . . . it is responsible for virtually every ill that we see within our communities."
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