You have to hand it to the “progressives” — they are masters in the manipulation of language to cloak their plans. They say that they desire campuses with diversity, equity, and inclusion. All sweet-sounding words — no one could object, right? But the truth is that DEI is a cover for intolerant people to push a set of ideas that are completely at odds with those on which this country was built.

Many college professors have learned that the hard way, among them David Richardson, who tells his story in today’s Martin Center article. At his California school, he was identified as a DEI dissident and ever since, officials have been making his life miserable.

Richardson writes:

Over the next several years, I saw increasing intolerance at many institutions of higher learning across the country. An ever-bolder minority began to dominate the academic conversation regarding topics like race, sex, rights, and equality. Those few faculty who dared to challenge their views were shouted down or, worse yet, pushed out completely. They learned to stay silent. The oppressor-versus-oppressed narrative became the only one students heard.

Faculty members can’t be allowed to sow any seeds of doubt regarding that narrative.When Richardson expressed his disagreement with Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist, he found himself in hot water. Eventually, he would be required to undergo reeducation to cleanse away his wrong-thinking.

About that, he writes:

In addition to the quizzes from earlier trainings to make sure I was able to regurgitate the language, each module had a writing portion in which students had to relate the lessons of DEI to a situation from their own lives, as well as explain how that situation could have been remedied or avoided by applying the lessons learned. My own professional life by that time was replete with examples of how people in positions of power over me were able to leverage that power to discriminate, harass, and bully, so that turned out to be the easy part.