Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 5/6/2023
Christopher Rufo has obtained a cache of documents from the University of Texas, and if you’ve wondered how extensive the rot is at UT Austin, wonder no more.
The University of Texas has created a radical DEI bureaucracy that equates “objectivity” with “white supremacy,” recommends the word “wimmin” as a replacement for “women,” and affirms “polyamory” and “polyfidelity” as positive sexual identities.
I have obtained a cache of documents through public-records requests revealing the DEI bureaucracy’s stunning conquest of Texas’s flagship state university.
The transformation began in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, when university officials adopted the narrative of critical race theory, arguing that America was saturated with “white supremacy.” During this period, UT’s College of Communication promoted the idea that “objectivity,” “individualism,” and “worship of the written word” were all “characteristics of white supremacy culture.” 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.”
This narrative justified a massive expansion of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” 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.
One example is the university’s Multicultural Engagement Center. The MEC manages racially segregated student groups, hosts workshops on “social justice” activism, and explicitly trains students to “be the agents of social change,” as opposed to dispassionate and careful scholars. The program’s workshops follow the basic narrative of critical race theory: America is a nation defined by “systemic inequities,” one that accrues “social benefits that some people have because of their identities,” and in which minorities endure a constant barrage of “microaggressions,” “microinsults,” “microassaults,” and “microinvalidations.”
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