December 16, 2023

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

A Failing Grift by Malignant College Socialists and Privileged "Liberals" Pretending to Care

By The Frayed Wire

Recently, I was checking old email accounts and saw a message from my alma mater, Michigan Tech. It was one of my favorites called "Tech Today" and normally includes updates from different academic departments, news about faculty, and general information about campus life.

Among other articles, I noticed one called "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion." This article was written by Kim Geiger, a journalism graduate from University of Washington-Seattle. She writes blogs and other articles for the college of engineering.

With Kim's background, I thought to myself, "This certainly will focus on the national debate surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion departments and their apparent effects." I enjoy deep and transformative discussion, so I was hoping some interesting analysis would be presented.

Filled with anticipation, I clicked the article, only to see what I've reproduced below:

"The College of Engineering believes that diversity in an equitable and inclusive environment is essential for the development of creative solutions to address the world's challenges.

The College of Engineering strives for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, which is essential for the development of vibrant and creative solutions to address the world's challenges.

Our faculty, staff and students are fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. We stand together as a community to reject any actions associated with hatred or fear. There is much work to be done and we all have a part to play in order for meaningful change to occur."

This is the whole thing.

Yes, the first two sentences are essentially the same. And yes, the entire "article" contains similar shallow catch phrases. Embarrassingly (for me as an alum), undersigned to this was the name of every academic chair for every engineering department at Michigan Tech.

I am wondering if many even know their names were used here.

I would think some might have a few problems with the piece. It amounts to a "pledge of allegiance" to a DEI movement that has been thoroughly exposed for its links to destructive cultural Marxism.

These links are proven by examining the premises of "Critical Race Theory," "Gender Theory," "Queer Theory," and other trojan horse "Theories" causing significant harm to those that imbibe them. All use the Marxist dichotomy to assign reductive "oppressor and oppressed" framing to social issues.

Unfortunately, many adherents don't truly understand this or have been too affected by fear mongering to remain objective. These framings include overgeneralized analysis of intent and objectively dishonest research, all of which just conclude: "we should do communism because we are angry at people."

This is at the crux of the national debate and what is leading many states to eliminate their DEI departments completely. I think Michigan Tech should do the same.

The implementation of Marxist DEI has been insidiously pushed during a time of crisis and accelerated over the past 3 years. This has happened on all campuses, but more significantly at Michigan Tech due to its technological focus.

Within a 3-year timeframe, DEI has nationally diminished trust in universities by broadly affecting their key functions. This includes production of high-quality research and graduating well-qualified students. This is because these objectives take a second seat to social issues DEI departments fail to address in good faith.

In other words, many universities are too distracted tilting at windmills and aren't as focused on producing results. This is why many in the country consider DEI a toxic element to be removed.

It is not because we hate any of the groups DEI departments claim to "protect" or want to promote fear (as Kim Geiger tries to imply), but because universities have become preoccupied with theoretical social constructs instead of REAL social development.

DEI fails in this way because their premises are based on faulty research and immature notions of human nature. This faulty view has been codified through aggrieved group "literature" produced in ideologically tilted humanities departments. This provides a direct pipeline of bad ideas between University DEI administrators and the faulty academic fields that birthed them.

The main reason well-to-do college "liberals" have adopted DEI is because many gravitate toward so-called "luxury belief systems." These are beliefs that can only be held if you exist within objectively privileged social bubbles. Unfortunately, these bubbles exist on most college campuses today.

Adherence to DEI allows privileged people to receive accolades from those in their bubble for "caring" about aggrieved groups through blind adherence to Marxist principles. To receive this praise, adherents just need to publicly state their beliefs in the correct language, as Kim Geiger does here. No real action required, except maybe holding a protest sign you are handed or donating to Black Lives Matter.

Keep in mind this often accomplishes nothing or makes real issues much worse by giving cover to malicious action.

My question to Kim and others who blindly support what she wrote is: What effects did academic liberals "acknowledging their racism" have on anything over the past few years?

Things have gotten much worse for the people they pretended to care about. This includes aggrieved minorities in the inner cities. Their ignorant support for leftists like those in Black Live Matter threw many to the wolves and resulted in their communities being decimated. They should all be ashamed, but instead they continue to double down.

Unlike well to do college "liberals", there's still many of us trying to make a real difference by affecting real, positive change in neighborhoods decimated by their ignorant ideology. I can say from first hand experience, many of the groups they pretend to care about want no more of their attempts at "meaningful change."

The ignorance of college socialists and "liberals" has done enough damage. Shut down DEI.