The Left’s “long march through the institutions” has been just as successful in “red” states as in “blue” ones. All they’ve had to do is infiltrate academia with their true believers and the way is paved for education that’s meant to indoctrinate students into their various beliefs and narratives.
The University of Texas is no exception. In fact, the success of the left there must be a source of great pride.
A UT alum, lawyer Louis Bonham, has written a sharp open letter to the president of the university, Jay Hartzell, and it is worth reading.
A slice:
For instance, despite your pious postulations as to the importance of intellectual diversity and free speech on campus, you did absolutely nothing in response to the Law School’s preemptive surrender to campus activists when it imposed ideological handcuffs on its new Law and Religion Clinic (which ironically is part of the Law School’s newly endowed First Amendment Center) — unprecedented restrictions not placed on any other UT law clinic, especially ones backing openly leftist causes. Nor did you take action against instances of cancel culture being employed by UT administrators against UT faculty.
But the times they are a-changing. Bonham informs Hartzell that he’d better prepare for trouble if he continues to support the left’s grip on the university. For example:
The Department of Education is widely expected to issue a directive to schools advising them that the DoEd considers programs that discriminate for or against people on the basis of race, sex, ethnicity, etc., in admission, hiring, tenure, promotion, or funding are illegal under federal law. (Indeed, President Trump has summoned DEI arch-enemy Christopher Rufo to Mar-a-Lago to brief him on how to gut DEI in higher education nationwide, as well as throughout the federal government.) Expect to see a DoEd requirement that UT’s nondiscrimination certification (required for eligibility for federal funds) must include a sworn statement that all DEI programs have actually been dismantled.
The whining and crying from leftist zealots will be sweet to hear.
Read the whole thing.