Racism in the Name of “Anti-Racism”

[rangerrebew]

EYE ON THE NEWS
Racism in the Name of “Anti-Racism”
The University of Central Florida adopts DEI programming that segregates students by race and encourages discrimination against the “oppressor” class.
Christopher F. Rufo
February 15, 2023 EducationThe Social Order

The University of Central Florida has adopted radical Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming that segregates students by race, condemns the United States as “white-supremacist culture,” and encourages active discrimination against the “oppressor” class, characterized as “male, White, heterosexual, able-bodied, and Christian.”

Officially, UCF reports that it has 14 separate DEI programs, costing in the aggregate more than $4 million per year. But this dramatically understates the reality, which is that the ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” has been entrenched everywhere. The university’s administration and academic departments have created a blizzard of programs, classes, trainings, reports, committees, certifications, events, documents, policies, clubs, groups, conferences, and statements pledging UCF to left-wing racialism.

These programs, long in the making, exploded into prominence following the death of George Floyd in 2020. As the administration signaled that it was endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement, the academic departments immediately fell into line. The sociology department pledged allegiance to BLM and blasted the “anti-Blackness at the heart of US white-supremacist culture.” The physics department released a statement promising to address “systemic anti-Black racism in policing” and its own “power and privilege.” The anthropology department published a statement denouncing white European “hegemonic systems” and vowed to “advocate for a more inclusive society based on the principles of cultural relativism.”

 https://www.city-journal.org/univ-of-central-florida-racism-in-the-name-of-anti-racism

[rangerrebew]

They probably "celebrate" MLK's vision of unity, too --- to keep their federal dollars flowing.

[DefiantMassRINO]

America was conquered by Western European nations.  Conquerers impose their language, tradition, and culture upon the conquered.  Otherwise, I'd be speaking Wampanoag.

Systems are not racist; the people who run them are.  If residents of poor urban neighborhoods are underserved, they only need to look to city hall and the state house to identify the root cause, and the potential solution.

If you want to change the system, you need to change the people that run it.

Segregation is not the answer as no single ethnic group, by itself, has sufficient popular majority to rule.  Poltical change requires the construction and development of coalitions of diverse backgrounds and interests to gain sufficient political critical mass to rise to power.

Much of today's dysfunction of governance is the result of extremists, zealots, and monied interests dissolving coalitions to advance very narrow idealogical agendas.

As these coalitions dissolve, it will beome more difficult for either party to ever achieve a supermajority.

African-Americans isolating themselves from other political constituencies reduces their opporuntiy and their ability to build a sufficiently large coalition to advance interests common to multiple constituencies.

Both rural and urban constituencies are underserved and under represented by both political establishments.  Both party establishments need to maintain a wedge between those constituencies so they can advance the interests of wealthy, educated, suburban constituencies.

[Kamaji]

America was conquered by Western European nations.  Conquerers impose their language, tradition, and culture upon the conquered.  Otherwise, I'd be speaking Wampanoag.

Systems are not racist; the people who run them are.  If residents of poor urban neighborhoods are underserved, they only need to look to city hall and the state house to identify the root cause, and the potential solution.

If you want to change the system, you need to change the people that run it.

Segregation is not the answer as no single ethnic group, by itself, has sufficient popular majority to rule.  Poltical change requires the construction and development of coalitions of diverse backgrounds and interests to gain sufficient political critical mass to rise to power.

Much of today's dysfunction of governance is the result of extremists, zealots, and monied interests dissolving coalitions to advance very narrow idealogical agendas.

As these coalitions dissolve, it will beome more difficult for either party to ever achieve a supermajority.

African-Americans isolating themselves from other political constituencies reduces their opporuntiy and their ability to build a sufficiently large coalition to advance interests common to multiple constituencies.

Both rural and urban constituencies are underserved and under represented by both political establishments.  Both party establishments need to maintain a wedge between those constituencies so they can advance the interests of wealthy, educated, suburban constituencies.