{"id":20506,"date":"2023-12-05T01:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T08:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20506"},"modified":"2023-12-05T01:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T08:43:54","slug":"wokeness-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/12\/05\/wokeness-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Wokeness By Any Other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Would wokeness by any other name small as odious? The University of Tennessee is trying to find out by replacing their \u201cDivision of Diversity and Engagement\u201d to \u201cDivision of Access<\/em> and Engagement<\/a>\u201d because too many people have noticed that \u201cdiversity\u201d is a Leftist dog whistle for discrimination and exclusion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe UT System\u2019s Division of Diversity and Engagement, which is tasked with promoting diversity, equity and inclusion across all campuses, will soon be renamed as the \u2018Division of Access and Engagement\u2019 in an effort to better reflect the division\u2019s mission, as well as move away from some potentially divisive terminology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who work within the division are responsible for ensuring that campus environments remain inclusive and accessible for all students, faculty and staff of the university. This work is meant to promote \u2018diversity, equity and inclusion\u2019 and is more often referred to simply as DEI. In the past, DEI has been instrumental in the uplifting of minority groups, who may otherwise lack a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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     And they come right out and say that the name change was because the good people of Tennessee increasingly oppose \u201cDEI\u201d and it\u2019s insidious agenda.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAccording to Guy Harrison, the newly-appointed director of DEI for the School of Journalism and Media, the move is an effort to detract attention from state politicians who have begun to take issue with discussions of diversity in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018We are in a very ultra-conservative state, and there are political actors who would completely do away with DEI, whether it’s the title or the work that we do,\u2019 Harrison said. \u2018And this kind of protects us from them a little bit. But I wish it wasn\u2019t necessary \u2026 we shouldn\u2019t need to whitewash the word diversity out of things, just not to alarm certain people.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     And what was the deciding factor? The prohibition on the state pushing woke \u201cdivisive concepts\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis comes more than a year after alarms began to be raised statewide surrounding discussions of race and gender on higher education campuses, due to the passing of Tennessee bill SB 2290, often referred to as the \u2018Divisive Concepts\u2019 bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith vague and overly complex language, the law has effectively disseminated fear and confusion across state campuses, worrying faculty about what is and isn\u2019t acceptable to teach in classrooms as the political landscape of the nation continues to shift.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     This should serve as a warning to those opposed to the \u201cDEI\u201d agenda (which more honestly stands for \u201cdiscrimination, exclusion, and inequality\u201d) that the people who believe in wokeness and the Leftist ideology are still there and still pushing their indoctrination\u2014they simply got ahead of themselves and pushed too strongly on a society that still wasn\u2019t ready yet.<\/p>\n

     All they will do is start working sub rosa<\/em> again, and work to make the population more receptive to their<\/em> proscribed truth.<\/p>\n

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