{"id":18134,"date":"2021-06-24T00:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18134"},"modified":"2021-06-24T00:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:27:21","slug":"quick-takes-institutional-racism-strategic-diversity-inclusivity-equity-die-mandatory-identity-and-privilege-indoctrination-punis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/24\/quick-takes-institutional-racism-strategic-diversity-inclusivity-equity-die-mandatory-identity-and-privilege-indoctrination-punis\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Institutional Racism: Strategic \u201cDiversity, Inclusivity, Equity\u201d (\u201cDIE\u201d); Mandatory \u201cIdentity And Privilege\u201d Indoctrination; Punishment For \u201cWhite Fragility\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: If you have demonstrated institutional power, then you are not institutionally oppressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LoF_a0-7xVQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Viewing \u201cDiversity, Inclusion, and Equity\u201d though the \u201clens of race\u201d is all euphemistic speech for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/blogs\/article\/ut-austin-approves-orwellian-strategic-plan-for-faculty-diversity-equity-and-inclusivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial discrimination<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLast summer, a working copy of the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s (UT) \u2018Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion \u2013 Strategic Plan\u2019 was leaked by a UT employee. As detailed in an earlier National Association of Scholars article, this plan included political litmus tests for hiring, promotion, and even scholarship. As the article concluded:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the name of \u2018diversity, equity, and inclusion,\u2019 university leadership has decided to end its search for truth and to instead become a redistribution scheme for the transfer of money from students and taxpayers to new hires that, by necessity, must be committed zealots of the regime. If this plan takes effect, Texans of diverse opinions can say goodbye to any dream of being hired by its most prestigious university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Foundation for Individual Rights in Education also weighed in, sending UT a letter expressing similar concerns that the plan \u2018presents a serious threat of establishing a viewpoint-based litmus test for both hiring and promotion.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNot to worry\u2014UT eventually responded, explaining that the leaked document was only an incomplete draft, and that UT would \u2018continue to seek faculty with a wide range of political, religious, philosophical, ideological, and academic viewpoints.\u2019 Last week, after rumors from UT insiders circulated that UT President Jay Hartzell might be tactically delaying approval of this plan until after the Texas Legislature adjourns in May, UT quietly announced that the plan had been approved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile the final version of UT\u2019s strategic plan has been massaged from the prior draft, in substance the plan\u2019s means, objectives, and import remain the same: all faculty hiring and promotion decisions\u2014and even the conferring of endowed chairs and teaching awards\u2014must now be scrutinized through the lens of whether faculty contribute to \u2018diversity, equity, and inclusivity.\u2019 Millions of dollars will be spent on mandatory \u2018diversity officers,\u2019 whose job will be to enforce this diversity orthodoxy. New positions will be created that will be open only to those who would \u2018increase diversity\u2019 at UT. Muddying the waters further, the plan now adopts the amorphous, undefined concept of \u2018diversity skills as a yardstick for hiring and performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You are nothing more than your intersectional identities and this makes you either privileged or oppressed. This line of thinking is <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=16611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLoyola University Chicago has announced plans to have every academic department perform a \u2018Racial Justice Examen,\u2019 in which those departments will evaluate and reflect how they are doing when it comes to racial justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to the Loyola University Division of Academic Affairs, the \u2018Racial Justice Examen\u2019 is part of a broader plan to create a \u2018safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for students, staff, and faculty of color.\u2019 The university will create this environment by reviewing campus procedures and providing diversity training to help students, staff, and faculty \u2018identify and interrupt bias\u2019 and learn about \u2018identity and privilege\u2019 on campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo accomplish this, the university will move in three phases. In summer 2020, the university focused on examining the current diversification and equality efforts in every academic department.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stand against the academic institutions and the academic institutions will stand <em>on<\/em> you\u2026 give or take an occasional lifting <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2021\/04\/05\/professor-pushed-back-mandatory-white-fragility-training-school-investigated-months-n381628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in order to stomp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cReason published a piece by Jesse Singal about an English professor named Elisa Parrett. Parrett teaches at a public technical college outside of Seattle called the Lake Washington Institute of Technology. Last June 19, in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the school held an event called Courageous Conversations which was based partly on Robin DiAngelo\u2019s book White Fragility. The event was mandatory in the sense that the school\u2019s president sent an email asking every professor to attend unless they had a conflict with their teaching schedule. It was also segregated by race, meaning whites in one room and people of color in a separate one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cKnowing what was coming, Parrett decided to write out a statement which she intended to read during the session. She asked a couple of other professors to offer input on her draft beforehand. Jesse Singal got a recording of the entire meeting\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut five days later Parrett got an email from President Amy Morrison which had a very different tone. It read in part, \u2018Because of your egregious behavior which has led to substantial harm to hundreds of colleagues on campus, I have asked Dr. Ames, Dean Doug Emory, and [executive director of H.R.] Meena Park to meet with you in the next few days to have a serious conversation about how successful you can possibly be on campus in the future.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTwo days later, Parrett was placed on administrative leave. President Morrison sent a lengthy email mentioning Parrett by name and saying she was stunned by her statement during the training. A disciplinary complaint was filed against Parrett by the vice president who\u2019d made the seemingly supportive call to her a few days earlier. The complaint alleged Parrett had behaved in a \u2018corrupt, insolent and insubordinate manner.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen Singal emailed the Vice President about the story, she doubled down and claimed that Parrett had been \u2018aggressively yelling at folks in the meeting.\u2019 At the time, she was apparently unaware that Singal had the audio of the entire session. When he sent her a copy and asked her to point out where Parrett had yelled at anyone, a university spokesperson suggested Parrett\u2019s \u2018visible anger\u2019 wasn\u2019t conveyed by the audio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter a months-long investigation which cost the school a minimum of $80,000 and generated reports that were cumulatively about 200 pages long, the school suddenly announced about two weeks ago that the outcome would be a written reprimand and a demand that Parrett create no further disturbances to the school\u2019s anti-racism efforts. Here union rep is filing a grievance about that since it\u2019s not clear a tenured professor can be forbidden from speaking about an issue on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Institutional Racism: Strategic 'Diversity, Inclusivity, Equity' ('DIE'); Mandatory 'Identity And Privilege'Indoctrination; Punishment For 'White Fragility'\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: If you have demonstrated institutional power, then you are not institutionally oppressed.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: If you have demonstrated institutional power, then you are not institutionally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/24\/quick-takes-institutional-racism-strategic-diversity-inclusivity-equity-die-mandatory-identity-and-privilege-indoctrination-punis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,25,24,48],"class_list":["post-18134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18135,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions\/18135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}