Robert Steinbuch: Live Free or DEI Even Harder

He's right, though we basically know all this already: increasingly, you have to attest in writing that you are committed to "diversity, equity and inclusion" in order to apply for faculty positions. Also increasingly: you also have to recount what you've actually done to promote "DEI."

   Furthermore: "DEI," though it sounds like it might be politically neutral, is actually a thin layer of camouflage for extremist left-wing political ideas. The terms 'diversity,' 'equity' and 'inclusion' are strategically equivocal: 'diversity' could mean something good...it just doesn't. What it means is: preferences for left-favored demographic groups and leftist ideas and policies. All those terms sounds like they could mean, basically: fairness. "Social justice" is similarly equivocal. It sounds like it could just mean justice. Or: just arrangements of society--whatever those might be. In fact, 'social justice' is almost exclusively a term of the left. And in its actual application, it almost always means: justice as conceived of by the left... Similarly "DEI." In its actual applications, it almost always entails leftist preferences: demographic preferences, rejection of the very idea of merit, constraints on free inquiry and speech, indoctrination with leftist identity politics ideas, re-engineering of universities to be even farther to the left than they already are. "DEI" in the broad sense might include color-blind policies as an important component. In actual implementation--as always--the extreme leftist IdP view is accepted: the very idea of color-blindness is itself racist. Write a DEI attestation saying that you accept the ideal of color-blind policies...see whether you get an interview. Actually, let me remove all unclarity: you are extremely unlikely to get an interview. (Less likely, that is, than if you sing the praises of Woketarianism...)

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