The DEI Ruse Is Imploding. Part Four Victor Davis Hanson
https://victorhanson.com/the-dei-ruse-is-imploding-part-four/
DEI is racist. After lying before Congress that she had to consider “context” and “free speech” before considering discipling anti-Jewish behavior and speech on her Harvard campus, and after being caught plagiarizing in some 60 percent of her meager scholarly output, Claudine Gay pulled out all the racist stops to save her job.
She enlisted Harvard, its attorneys, and 700 of its faculty to lie that her plagiarism was not really serious because—the plagiarized did not always complain; because the whistleblowers were anonymous in many cases; because the New York Post had no right to run the story; because Gay claimed she adhered to the highest standards in her scholarship; and because her critics were inordinately conservative.
Consider, it was supposedly anti-black to force her removal from the leftwing Harvard Corporation. Ok, but not so when Stanford forced white male president Marc Tessier-Lavigne to resign for far lesser scholarly misconduct? What about the University of Pennsylvania that coerced its white president Liz Magill to quit for ethically challenged testimony, similar to Gay’s but without any hint of scholarly plagiarism in Magill’s resume? Does DEI mean lifetime tenure on the rationale that once standards are no longer purely meritocratic in hiring, they must similarly remain nonmeritocratic for lifelong tenure?
Note how most of the current architects of the woke/DEI movement cut their teeth in their youth with overt racist diatribes and racial stereotyping—in far more academic and sophisticated forms than the old anti-Semitic blasts of Louis Farrakhan (“gutter religion”), Jesse Jackson (“That’s all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel; every time you go to Hymietown, that’s all they want to talk about”), Al Sharpton (“If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house”), Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s “personal pastor” (“Them Jews ain’t going to let him [Barak Obama] talk to me), Malcolm X (“bloodsuckers”), or Rep. Ilhan Omar (“It’s all about the Benjamins baby”).
For example, in his younger days, Professor Ibram X. Kendi (aka Ibram Henry Rogers) wrote that European people had created AIDS to save their race (“white people were fending off racial extinction, using ‘psychological brainwashing’ and ‘the aids virus’”). Keep that in mind and his later career makes perfect sense.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, who constructed the 1619 myth, topped Kendi’s craziness, by once writing in her college days that, “The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager and thief of the modern world…The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil.”
I guess the 1619 authority did not count Mao Zedong’s erasure of 70 million Chinese. Was Tamerlane who caused 15–20 million deaths a white male under DEI guidelines? How about Attila and Genghis Khan?
Or compare another DEI prophet, Ta-Nehisi Coates, who in sick fashion once said of the firemen and police who died as they went into the World Trade City to save the trapped and doomed, “They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could—with no justification—shatter my body.” Note the creepy/weepy cult of victimization embraced by multimillionaire comic book writer Coates, who somehow turns the deaths of thousands of innocents and those who tried to save them into all about himself (“shatter my body”).
In the end, DEI will implode by its many contradictions: it is racist to the core; it is illegal and violates court decisions and the Constitution; it destroys meritocracy; and it is utterly incoherent in adjudicating who and who not deserves racial preferences.
Someday soon, we will once again see the country return to a meritocracy and let the chips fall where they may—perhaps along the lines of the hyper-meritocratic NFL or NBA that apparently feels that racial and gender engineering would be antithetical to equality of opportunity regardless of race and ethnicity. Fans do not care much whether basketball and football or baseball teams “look like America” or not.
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