U. S. Rep. Burgess Owens gave an enthusiastic talk lately detailing the acidic effects of diversity, equity and participation in higher education, including referencing the tens of millions of dollars the ideology costs citizens, citing College Fix monitoring.
The Utah Republican, president of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, made the comments as part of his opening statement for a hearing titled” Divisive, Excessive, Ineffective: The Real Effect of DEI on College Campuses”, held March 6.
” From its Marxist stems to the modern-day La economy that sucks millions of dollars from training and labor costs,” Owens said.
” For those who want to know how much it costs this land, I have just a few cases here”, he added. ” According to The College Fix, University of Michigan,$ 30 million dollars a year, Texas A&, M University,$ 11 million dollars, Ohio State University,$ 20 million dollars, University of Wisconsin,$ 16 million dollars”.
“…And what is the consequence? More anger, more indignation, and more racism”.
Owens ‘ speech addressed his disdain for the DEI industry, which he described as” a cancer to the soul of our nation.” He stated in element:
The Marxist-centered DEI has a bitter perception of both America and Americans. It views our country as a pyramid made up of both competition tyrants and rulers. It attributed all of America’s institutional maladies and flaws to the pale, Judeo- Religious male. DEI recommends a healthy dose of dark racism and injustice to address all earlier perceived prejudice and injustice committed by this sect of Americans. DEI bureaucrats are hired not only to handle conversations, but also to stifle free speech and empty discourse by asserting liquidity on every aspect of college management, personnel, education plan and college admissions. It then attacks the tenets that underlie academic freedom.
DEI is not an abstract concept. Instead, it is a useful application that is both used in public and private college campuses across the country. Instead of intellectual competition and meritocracy, it is believed that universities use race as a plus-factor in admissions. In a race between two people, skin color is the deciding factor.
The impact of DEI is evident in how students are taught to be free of racial bias as they go through mandatory racial bias education. Each student is deemed an irredeemable oppressor or a member of the hapless, hopeless, and weak oppressed based on their race.
To my Jewish friends, this is the genesis of the raging antisemitism that is currently raging on our college campuses. A Jewish race is taught in DEI that is at the top of the oppressor pyramid. Once an oppressor is identified as a de facto oppressor, there is no empathy in the DEI space, but only disdain.
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At the core of DEI is also the soft bigotry of low expectation. It teaches that black Americans must wait for the success wand to be waved over us by white Americans because we are members of the oppressed race and that we are weak and incapable of standing and succeeding independently. Or even better, we should wait for the promise of slavery reparation. Under DEI, black Americans like myself who can muster the tenacity and grit to succeed are the exception not the rule. Once again, DEI is both demeaning and racist.
DEI is also heartless and unforgiving. Academicians who dare to publish research that challenges liberal orthodoxy are frequently expelled or canceled from their positions. For professors who enjoy teaching and want to be tenure-seeking, they are required to take a loyalty oath, swearing either to follow DEI’s rules or to pursue a career elsewhere.
The DEI movement is, at its core, divisive. It judges others based on our immutable characteristics, like color, race and past industry, which we have no control of.
Instead of becoming a more perfect union it turns our schools, communities, cities into cesspools of divisiveness, hate and intolerance.
At the hearing, Jay Greene, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the medical group Do No Harm, and Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania Erec Smith, were among the witnesses who testified at the hearing.
According to a committee summary, Goldfarb argued in his opening statement that DEI initiatives have a disastrous—and potentially fatal—impact on medical education, and Greene “gave perspective on the size and scope of campus DEI bureaucracies.”
” In a recent report, my co- author, James Paul, and I analyzed the number of DEI staff at 65 universities that were members of Power 5 athletic conferences. We found that the average university had 45 DEI bureaucrats, or more than 1 for every 33 tenure- track faculty members”, Greene told the committee.
Greene added there’s “nothing to show for these expenditures”.
” We’ve heard claims that DEI is meant to make students feel included and improve retention and graduation, but we have n’t heard any evidence of that”, he told the lawmakers. ” Campus climate is no better, and in fact is worse according to student surveys, at universities with larger DEI bureaucracies”.
MORE: UMich now has more than 500 jobs dedicated to DEI, payroll costs exceed$ 30 million
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