My appearance on The Federalist Radio Hour: '[The federal government] needs to say to these schools that you cannot engage in discrimination, you cannot violate the law and keep your federal funding, and we will pull it. Pull it for one or two universities, and you will see hundreds of others fall into line.
My appearance on The Federalist Radio Hour: “ needs to say to these schools that you cannot engage in discrimination, you cannot violate the law and keep your federal funding, and we will pull it. Pull it for one or two universities, and you will see hundreds of others fall into line.
But in the context of what we normally talk about it on campuses, it really is a racial quota system.It does not treat individuals as individuals. It treats individuals as proxies for identity groups, could be racial identity groups, could be ethnic identity groups, could be sexual or sexual orientation or sexual self-identification identity groups.
There’s no definite structure to it. But what it almost always means, if not always, is it is a group identity ideology that does not treat people as individuals, treats them as proxies for their group. And that’s why you have training, you have classes, you have admissions practices that treat people by group identity. So there is no definitive definition of what DEI is other than it is a group identity approach to implement the concepts from critical race theory.
Now, Black Lives Matter had existed and it’s something we followed since before it was even an organization. It was created, the hashtag Black Lives Matter was created after the Trayvon Martin death and the George Zimmermann trial, which was an absolute valid case of self defense, but that’s when they created the hashtag.
So basically, it is an anti-constitutional, anti-Fourteenth Amendment, anti-Civil Rights Act ideology that was implemented on Cornell’s campus. The president was able to do that to the staff because that’s administrative. She was also wanted it imposed on students and faculty. For that, she actually had to go to the faculty Senate, where, surprisingly to me, shockingly to me, there was some pushback about that.
And the outcome was again Americans moving away from the room, rule of law, from basic founding principles to pick up this ideology. How much of this is tied to the Marxist movement over the years in this country and around the world?As I mentioned, basically, what the left has done in the United States at least is substitute race for class, and so as opposed to perpetual class warfare, it’s now perpetual racial warfare and ethnic warfare, and that is the ideology.
So I was at Harvard Law School. I graduated Harvard Law School in 1984. Harvard Law School was the epicenter of the critical legal studies movement. But I noticed, even in the early eighties, before there was even the term critical race theory, I noticed them injecting race into a lot of things, most particularly in terms of the anti-Israel movement on campus, which was small at that time, but it was there trying to portray that dispute as a racial dispute.
He was left out because of the color of his skin, and in twenty twenty four, that means the color of his skin white. They have a program in Green Bay. It appears that focuses those kinds of vital resources, those reading resources on certain racial classes black, Hispanic, and Native American, or as they describe it, nation origin, nation, or however it’s defined these days, it’s hard to keep up with the language. That appears to be a pretty egregious example.
The administrators don’t seem to care. We’ve been filing them for the most part at the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education, and in about half the cases the schools will back down almost immediately, but they pop up elsewhere. It’s like playing whack-a-mole. So there is a widespread practice in higher education of open discrimination.
So the first prong of what needs to happen is the federal government needs to start enforcing the rules and regulations they already have that require non discrimination if you’re going to get federal funding, and they’ve not been doing that.The second one, which is completely related, is the funding itself. That money is the only thing that will motivate universities to change their ways.
That’s what the federal government needs to do. It needs to say to these schools that you cannot engage in discrimination, you cannot violate the law and keep your federal funding, and we will pull it. Pull it for one or two universities, and you will see hundreds of others fall into line. I think about the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin in the Midwest because they felt like they’re funding source of revenue from the state. In those cases, it’s coming to was in peril. Do you find it curious how the values that they espouse administration on these campuses about diversity, equity, and inclusion can disappear when we’re talking about cash.
I think their faculty number is ballpark eighteen hundredm ballpark. Of those eighteen hundred, you can count on one hand the number of faculty who are openly politically conservative. And when I say politically conservative and openly is important. There may be voters out there among faculty who keep it to themselves. There may be faculty who consider themselves economically or religiously conservative, but people who are outspoken about the political angle of things are almost non existent.
I’m the faculty advisor to almost every, if not every right of center student group on campus. I’d like to think it’s because I’m so wonderful, but the reality is there’s literally nobody they can go to. There is nobody else who’s willing to serve as a faculty advisor for a lot of these groups, if not most of the groups. And therefore, I feel my role is extremely important. I think even having one dissident on a campus makes a big difference.
I have long admired your work, and a dear friend of mine for years. We lost him at the university at Marquette University a few years back. But John McAdams, who was fighting the same fight on that Jesuit school campus, which you think wouldn’t have all of the kind of battles that maybe a Cornell has had, or a UCLA or Columbia or those sorts of things.
Can he solve the problem? No, because people need to understand this is quasi religious for the adherents. It really is a religion for the DEI bureaucracy and the DEI advocates in many ways. And so will he get rid of it completely. No, But can he make enormous changes if he does it in a smart way. Yes.
So on a college campus where you would think ninety nine percent of the students would be in favor of affirmative action, in effect, I won the vote at the Cornell Political Union. I think part of that reason was it was a secret ballot. You just signed your piece of paper and put it in. You didn’t have to put your name on it.
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