Senate Education Committee members must be contacted by citizens for redress of grievances. They must be made to question the university witnesses about DEI by other names burrowing in to other posts, attempts to evade the spirit of the law, not just the letter of. How will universities ferret out the renamed, reassigned DEI efforts that move into stealth mode on campuses? What types of enforcement and penalties are attached to attempts to evade the *spirit* of the law? The members of the committee should be overwhelmed with concerned citizens demanding the hearing not be allowed to be a dog and pony show where university officials feign compliance while enabling workarounds to proceed on campus. They must be made to feel so much heat from citizens they dare not allow the doublecross to happen. We're watching. And not fools. And they won't get away with playing us for fools. Senate Education Committee members. Contact all of them.
These thugs will not quit unless they are figuratively, and quite possibly literally, beaten into submission.
There needs to be a de-Nazification type blacklist. ‘Major offenders, offenders, collaborators,’ etcetera. They need to be banished from political, economic, and cultural life for good.
We also have a major Elite Human Capital problem. We can purge the top brass but there simply aren’t enough conservative elites to staff entire bureaucracies.
Like Richard Hanania said, without genuinely persuading some of these people, it’s going to be constant Whack-A-Mole. Yes, you might sometimes hit the mole and get them to go quiet for a bit, but unless the underlying issue of the well educated being alienated isn’t sorted, it will just be temporary. You will be leaving in place educators that still thought DEI was a good idea in the first place, and will comply with the letter of the law whilst doing everything to circumvent its spirit.
A good start, that Rufo has endorsed, is changing the incentive structure to increasingly marketize higher education, and make it dependent on student employment. Won't solve everything but it will be part of the solution.
My insiders say it's a big PR effort to try to push back against the upcoming hearings in May.
They are finding all of these people jobs in the next 90 days, and what they are still saying internally is that everything will just go on as before under different names.
The victory is making them feel the heat to resort to a smoke and mirrors campaign to try and get us off their backs. Our defeat would be to declare victory and get off their backs.
Don't be a sucker. Stay on them. They are wounded, not slayed. They must be slayed. They are zombies who are hard to kill. Cunning, deceptive. Finish them off. Keep up the pressure.
The hearings in May must be well-attended and filled with passionate DEI opponents. Wealthy alumni mustn't go back to business as usual thinking the threat has passed. It hasn't. And shine the light wherever they try to hide in darkness. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
"The Senate Education Committee is holding a hearing in May for university system chancellors and general counsels to lay out how their institutions are ensuring that there are no DEI offices or training, no diversity statements in hiring and only merit-based employment offers with no considerations for race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin."
"Engineering Scarcity Globally" hahah! That is for sure what ESG actually spells out when one puts on the _They Live_ sunglasses that reveal what the propaganda really means.
Since DEI bureaucrats only "know" one thing, predictably that classroom will be a continuous stream of question begging "theorizing" designed to justify the existence of...wait for it...DEI everywhere.
Great job, Chris Rufo, for all that you do. I get it, as I'm a red-pilled ex-lefty and I didn't move to Texas for nothing. I'm surprised, however, at the extent of political leftism here. Many of my conservative friends, frankly, seem a bit blind to it, as if "that can't happen here".
Yes-it is Big and filled with illegals. My area, outside of Houston, employs thousands of illegal laborers for house building and landscaping. It's shocking to me, coming from the Midwest, to see this. How could a Texas born citizen compete in these areas for jobs? They can't, there are none unless you're the business owner. And then they have this huge new housing development devoted to selling property to illegals. Which answered my question- where do these illegals sleep as they're here daily? I admit I'm a fish out of the sea. 😄
Like the Marxist destruction of our culture from within: poor work ethic, drugs, etc. A failing economy that's finance focused, not productive (as I'm hearing). But state to state it seems Texas is doing great. But I'm not sure that actually trickles down to the working/middle class. My property taxes are severe.
A university(UATX?) would make waves by creating an anonymous application system. Assign a number to each applicant and strip any identifying factors. Admit based solely on qualifications.
My insiders say it's a big PR effort to try to push back against the upcoming hearings in May.
They are finding all of these people jobs in the next 90 days, and what they are still saying internally is that everything will just go on as before under different names.
The victory is making them feel the heat to resort to a smoke and mirrors campaign to try and get us off their backs. Our defeat would be to declare victory and get off the backs.
Don't be a sucker. Stay on them. They are wounded, not slayed. They must be slayed. They are zombies who are hard to kill. Cunning, deceptive. Finish them off. Keep up the pressure.
The hearings in May must be well-attended and filled with passionate DEI opponents. Wealthy alumni mustn't go back to business as usual thinking the threat has passed. It hasn't.
"The Senate Education Committee is holding a hearing in May for university system chancellors and general counsels to lay out how their institutions are ensuring that there are no DEI offices or training, no diversity statements in hiring and only merit-based employment offers with no considerations for race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin."
Great work Chris Rufo! You are a hero and an inspiration.
Next step: make sure it doesn't simply re-emerge under a new name.
On it.
Senate Education Committee members must be contacted by citizens for redress of grievances. They must be made to question the university witnesses about DEI by other names burrowing in to other posts, attempts to evade the spirit of the law, not just the letter of. How will universities ferret out the renamed, reassigned DEI efforts that move into stealth mode on campuses? What types of enforcement and penalties are attached to attempts to evade the *spirit* of the law? The members of the committee should be overwhelmed with concerned citizens demanding the hearing not be allowed to be a dog and pony show where university officials feign compliance while enabling workarounds to proceed on campus. They must be made to feel so much heat from citizens they dare not allow the doublecross to happen. We're watching. And not fools. And they won't get away with playing us for fools. Senate Education Committee members. Contact all of them.
Texas Senate Education Committee Contact Information:
Title Name District City Email Capitol Phone District Phone
Chair Brandon Creighton SD 4 Conroe brandon.creighton@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0104, 281-292-4128
Vice-Chair Donna Campbell SD 25 New Braunfauls donna.campbell@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0125, 830-626-0065
Paul Bettencourt SD 7 Houston paul.bettencourt@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0107, 713-464-0282
Brian Birdwell SD 22 Granbury brian.birdwell@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0122, 254-772-6225
Pete Flores SD 24 Pleasanton peter.flores@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0124, 210-784-5024
Phil King SD 10 Weatherford phil.king@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0110
Morgan LaMantia SD 27 South Padre Island morgan.lamantia@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0127, 956-689-1860, ext. 230
José Menéndez SD 26 San Antonio jose.menendez@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0126, 210-733-6604
Mayes Middleton SD 11 Galveston mayes.middleton@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0111
Tan Parker SD 12 Flower Mound tan.parker@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0112
Angela Paxton SD 8 McKinney angela.paxton@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0108, 972-908-3424
Drew Springer SD 30 Muenster drew.springer@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0130
Royce West SD 23 Dallas royce.west@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0123, 214-467-0050
Make sure you target feminism specifically, not just DEI in general. Feminism is the root of it all.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2024/04/01/texas-senate-panel-anti-dei-sb17-hearing-warns-universities-comply/73135352007/
LOL, great minds... my first thought also. I wouldn't trust these wokies as far as I can throw 'em. They will not simply go away.
These thugs will not quit unless they are figuratively, and quite possibly literally, beaten into submission.
There needs to be a de-Nazification type blacklist. ‘Major offenders, offenders, collaborators,’ etcetera. They need to be banished from political, economic, and cultural life for good.
We also have a major Elite Human Capital problem. We can purge the top brass but there simply aren’t enough conservative elites to staff entire bureaucracies.
Like Richard Hanania said, without genuinely persuading some of these people, it’s going to be constant Whack-A-Mole. Yes, you might sometimes hit the mole and get them to go quiet for a bit, but unless the underlying issue of the well educated being alienated isn’t sorted, it will just be temporary. You will be leaving in place educators that still thought DEI was a good idea in the first place, and will comply with the letter of the law whilst doing everything to circumvent its spirit.
A good start, that Rufo has endorsed, is changing the incentive structure to increasingly marketize higher education, and make it dependent on student employment. Won't solve everything but it will be part of the solution.
My insiders say it's a big PR effort to try to push back against the upcoming hearings in May.
They are finding all of these people jobs in the next 90 days, and what they are still saying internally is that everything will just go on as before under different names.
The victory is making them feel the heat to resort to a smoke and mirrors campaign to try and get us off their backs. Our defeat would be to declare victory and get off their backs.
Don't be a sucker. Stay on them. They are wounded, not slayed. They must be slayed. They are zombies who are hard to kill. Cunning, deceptive. Finish them off. Keep up the pressure.
The hearings in May must be well-attended and filled with passionate DEI opponents. Wealthy alumni mustn't go back to business as usual thinking the threat has passed. It hasn't. And shine the light wherever they try to hide in darkness. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
What hearings are you referencing?
SB 17 calls for hearings:
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2024/04/01/texas-senate-panel-anti-dei-sb17-hearing-warns-universities-comply/73135352007/
"The Senate Education Committee is holding a hearing in May for university system chancellors and general counsels to lay out how their institutions are ensuring that there are no DEI offices or training, no diversity statements in hiring and only merit-based employment offers with no considerations for race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin."
Texas Senate Education Committee Contact Information:
Title Name District City Email Capitol Phone District Phone
Chair Brandon Creighton SD 4 Conroe brandon.creighton@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0104, 281-292-4128
Vice-Chair Donna Campbell SD 25 New Braunfauls donna.campbell@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0125, 830-626-0065
Paul Bettencourt SD 7 Houston paul.bettencourt@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0107, 713-464-0282
Brian Birdwell SD 22 Granbury brian.birdwell@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0122, 254-772-6225
Pete Flores SD 24 Pleasanton peter.flores@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0124, 210-784-5024
Phil King SD 10 Weatherford phil.king@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0110
Morgan LaMantia SD 27 South Padre Island morgan.lamantia@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0127, 956-689-1860, ext. 230
José Menéndez SD 26 San Antonio jose.menendez@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0126, 210-733-6604
Mayes Middleton SD 11 Galveston mayes.middleton@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0111
Tan Parker SD 12 Flower Mound tan.parker@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0112
Angela Paxton SD 8 McKinney angela.paxton@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0108, 972-908-3424
Drew Springer SD 30 Muenster drew.springer@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0130
Royce West SD 23 Dallas royce.west@senate.texas.gov 512-463-0123, 214-467-0050
https://www.project2025.org/personnel/
Here you go
Didn’t Earn It. Engineering Scarcity Globally. Let’s Go Brandon!
"Engineering Scarcity Globally" hahah! That is for sure what ESG actually spells out when one puts on the _They Live_ sunglasses that reveal what the propaganda really means.
I haven’t heard a funny Russian since Yakov Smirnoff! 😆
Some DEI deans will return to teaching...sigh. We all know how that will go though.
Yep. And now, embittered by the defeat, they will be all the more militant, I'm guessing.
Yep. It is the only game they got. Fight. Double down. A relentless pursuit to dominate.
Happened at Amherst College - they allowed their president to retire and return after a year sabbatical to teach…
Since DEI bureaucrats only "know" one thing, predictably that classroom will be a continuous stream of question begging "theorizing" designed to justify the existence of...wait for it...DEI everywhere.
Most were crappy at teaching so attached themselves to this grift.
Good news!
Yeah UT has been notorious for being a haven for libs and commies for a long time. Need to keep an eye on them.
No kidding. Pick up a glossy "Texas Monthly" at your next doctors visit. 😟
Don’t stop!
thanks for fighting the good fight to bring this evil to light and not stopping until the required change is achieved.
Great work Christopher! Please don't overlook shutting down DEI programs and org at Texas A&M where it has also flourished.
Great job, Chris Rufo, for all that you do. I get it, as I'm a red-pilled ex-lefty and I didn't move to Texas for nothing. I'm surprised, however, at the extent of political leftism here. Many of my conservative friends, frankly, seem a bit blind to it, as if "that can't happen here".
Yes-it is Big and filled with illegals. My area, outside of Houston, employs thousands of illegal laborers for house building and landscaping. It's shocking to me, coming from the Midwest, to see this. How could a Texas born citizen compete in these areas for jobs? They can't, there are none unless you're the business owner. And then they have this huge new housing development devoted to selling property to illegals. Which answered my question- where do these illegals sleep as they're here daily? I admit I'm a fish out of the sea. 😄
Like the Marxist destruction of our culture from within: poor work ethic, drugs, etc. A failing economy that's finance focused, not productive (as I'm hearing). But state to state it seems Texas is doing great. But I'm not sure that actually trickles down to the working/middle class. My property taxes are severe.
Bravo!
I'm a tenured prof in a blue state (and a former democrat), and I wholly approve.
Congratulations, Chris. You're doing the nation's work—and doing it well!
Awesome job dude!
A university(UATX?) would make waves by creating an anonymous application system. Assign a number to each applicant and strip any identifying factors. Admit based solely on qualifications.
49 states and D. C. to go!
At last! :)
Or is it all smoke and mirrors?
My insiders say it's a big PR effort to try to push back against the upcoming hearings in May.
They are finding all of these people jobs in the next 90 days, and what they are still saying internally is that everything will just go on as before under different names.
The victory is making them feel the heat to resort to a smoke and mirrors campaign to try and get us off their backs. Our defeat would be to declare victory and get off the backs.
Don't be a sucker. Stay on them. They are wounded, not slayed. They must be slayed. They are zombies who are hard to kill. Cunning, deceptive. Finish them off. Keep up the pressure.
The hearings in May must be well-attended and filled with passionate DEI opponents. Wealthy alumni mustn't go back to business as usual thinking the threat has passed. It hasn't.
SB 17 calls for hearings:
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2024/04/01/texas-senate-panel-anti-dei-sb17-hearing-warns-universities-comply/73135352007/
"The Senate Education Committee is holding a hearing in May for university system chancellors and general counsels to lay out how their institutions are ensuring that there are no DEI offices or training, no diversity statements in hiring and only merit-based employment offers with no considerations for race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin."