The widespread antisemitic protests on college campuses should be the tipping point for universities to finally cut off the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs fueling the intersectional hatred on display.
The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has approved moving $2.3 million out of DEI spending in the 2024-25 budget to spend on public safety instead. Under pressure from Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University are scrapping plans to force undergraduates to take DEI-oriented classes.
These are all good first steps, as were the steps taken by several GOP-run states to ban DEI bureaucracies at public universities. The hate spewing from these protests flows from both the ideology pushed by DEI programs and from the bureaucrats these programs employ. Antisemitism is the most obvious form of hate and division that spawns from DEI offices and ideology, but these programs encourage dividing all people up by race, religion, gender, and other categories that have nothing to do with character or personality.
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The staffers promoting this ideology to students do not add anything to students’ education or their intellectual growth. They do not need to be employed, especially on taxpayer dollars. These programs exist to mold new generations of mindless activist drones, drones who happen to be taking part in antisemitic demonstrations and canceling graduation ceremonies and other events for normal students who simply want to learn and earn a college education.
Again, these are all first steps. Moving funding around or reneging on plans to force students into DEI courses does not solve the problem. DEI offices on college campuses should be folded, staff who promote division and identitarian hatred (and therefore do not contribute to students’ educations) should be let go, and universities must move toward focusing on how to best help students, not help enrich useless bureaucrats in an ever-expanding bureaucratic blob. Until universities, and state politicians, take that path, they will be allowing for more future protests with the same amount of antisemitism and other identitarian hatreds down the road.