A Hill Academia is Willing to DEI On?

These people:

Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, described the letter as “a deep political intrusion into the operations of higher education institutions” that “must be responded to with absolute conviction and force.” The AAUP seeks to challenge the directive in court and secure an injunction, and Wolfson hopes higher ed institutions do the same.
“I would stand with every inch of my soul against every one of these intrusions and bring all my members with me and put our bodies on the line to stop it,” he said.
But he’s most alarmed by the possible limits the Dear Colleague letter could impose on universities’ research and curricula. He believes government interference into those core aspects of academic life should be fought at all costs.
He’s particularly worried that the Trump administration could stymie research “for the collective good” on topics like child literacy or infant mortality rates in communities of color. He sees such studies as not just enlightening for students but also critical to solving wider societal problems. An attack on this type of research would be “an affront to every single American,” he said.
He doesn’t want to see the Trump administration dictating what’s taught in the classroom, either.
“We cannot have Big Brother standing over us saying, ‘You’re not allowed to read that book,’” he said. “There’s no such thing as higher education if that’s happening.”

Whoa...the left has rediscovered Orwell suddenly?

   If I weren't going to quit the AAUP anyway, this would probably do the trick:

“I would stand with every inch of my soul against every one of these intrusions and bring all my members with me and put our bodies on the line to stop it,”

These people really are cosplaying the civil rights movement.

   Except when they're cosplaying the communist revolution...

   Elsewhere they repeatedly refer to "university workers"...meaning faculty...if you can believe that...

   I don't understand much about the various Trump executive orders...but getting rid of DEI and otherwise pushing back against the left's hegemony over universities are good. Leftism is like a sickness pervading the university. Needless to say, leftists should get to voice their crackpot views at universities, just like every other group. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about them running the institution and bending it to their political purposes.

   What they're objecting to is the administration challenging their undisputed dominion over the institution.