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Skimming thru this 250 page insurgent marching orders.... Who are these bitter agents of envy who sit around creating all this drivel. Psycho-babble made to appeal to emotional adolescents, with lofty and scholarly accoutrements. And just as the Marxist interrogators in the Hanoi Hilton did, they use guilt trips as their go-to weapon of choice to get their prisoners(the ignorant students) to sell out their country.

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They win, in part, because they create a mass of ideological material and slowly push out anyone who does not go along with it.

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Reading about the past twenty years in higher education is depressing. I am so grateful I was out by 2005. Having pomo, neo-Marxist fusion infest the humanities is insidious and detrimental to critical thinking. Adding social media to it, and oy, present times are ugly. Thankful that you are fighting back so hard and effectively!

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Straight out of Marcuse's An Essay on Liberation- go after the students.

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This is just like Mao's cultural revolution. The difference is we're a democracy and can at least fight back. I have heard so many people waking up to this and discussing causes, but not much is done about fighting the root cause. The ideological hate factories of women, black and queer studies that poison our young people. Thank you Christopher and Desantis for taking the fight to academia. What can I do to help?

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All sane people must push back together against the woke cultural revolution: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/counter-the-cultural-revolution

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I wrote about my experiences at an Ivy League struggle session 15 years ago. It’s gotten exponentially worse since then. Keep turning the tide, or most smart families will no longer send their kids to these Maoist indoctrination camps. https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-groom-commissars

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“A key difference between the Marxist Left and everyone else is that the Marxist Left is willing to destroy the institution it's trying to take over if they can't have it, while no normal person is willing to take that risk.” —James Lindsay

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This is absolutely true. They play a high-stakes game.

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Life isn’t fair, says the Marxist. The system is rigged. This is always true, to some extent, which is why their assertions are emotionally seductive. The question is, what do the Marxists bring to the table in terms of a solution? The answer is nothing, beyond tearing it all down.

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Very true. But fair is a place to show your pig. “The left corrupts a once-respected organization and wears its skin as a suit, demanding respect for what the organization used to be.” Hat tip to David Burge: https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/664089892599631872?s=20

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You should see what they did to the venerable Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It has very little to do with Shakespeare any more.

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The Left used to have a slogan that I guess it is now hiding while operating on the basis of it - "Rule or ruin."

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Sounds about right. Using Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” no doubt.

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It isn’t ‘systemic racism’ the Left is fighting (even if it existed), it’s the ‘white majority’ they despise. This crazy leftist movement has more names and disguises than the Devil, which makes it more difficult to fight

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This happened 4 years ago to my sorority Tri Delta. In the name of anti racism, racist ideals were implemented in a program called LEADDD.

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Horrible.

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Disgusting. I’d see what I might be able to do to demonetize my membership. Real quick:

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Like the food chain, human society exists on levels that serve higher levels. We know families are the core of a society, for they form communities, which in turn congregate as "tribes" to form a nation that can serve the world.

"Race" is a bit of a social construct, for the only real "race" is the Human Race, and we all share 99% of the same DNA. It is that 1% difference that determines colors of skin, eyes, hair, etc. Consequent to the "great migration" originating in South Africa that has populated the Earth, those similarities of that 1% have resulted in the major tribal identities of African, West Asian, East Asian/Native American, and European cultures that have migrated to fill the planet. (Australian aboriginal only went that far.)

Unique to North America is the coming together of these migratory tribal cultures. While we should all be working together to form one great nation to serve the world, we are still bickering over the dominance of one tribal identity over another.

Thus, on the form that asks for "race" we should be filling out "Human" - perhaps with a further, and less important, indication of tribal cultural affiliation - African, European, Native American, etc.

Which box do my biracial grandchildren check? Checking the "other" box certainly diminishes the validity of their identity, and checking one of the major tribal boxes then asks them to deny part of their ancestry as insignificant.

Let's overcome these divisive "tribal" labels and work together to form the "e pluribus unum" principle on a national level.

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This is horrifying reading. How can such insanity prevail in what are supposed to be institutions of higher learning. Thank you for your excellent work dragging this madness into the light.

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DEI = God ( in Latin), The acronym used for equity seems to be purposeful, subliminal 'replacement verbiage.'

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My greatest hope is that all these "equity" pushers take their children to doctors who received their degrees because of "equity", fly on planes flown by pilots who are in the cockpit because of "equity", and get any surgeries by surgeons promoted bc of "equity".

You need to live your principles!

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The problem is that the rest of us don't want to live their principles!

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I am recently retired from a major medical system. It gives me a sense of dread that I will be heavily reliant on medical care as I age. I was troubled that the institutional culture changed from putting the patients needs first to putting the care provider needs first. Especially if the care providers were NOT straight white males. We're in for a rocky road ahead.

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hey i get it!

(also, im not even sure that "do what i say or i'll batter you with guilt and shame" counts as a principle)

BIG FAN OF YOUR WORK!

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but I can only hope to avoid such doctors and pilots like the plague.

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The ironic thing is that it will incentivize patients to avoid doctors who belong to races and identities that are most likely to be equity hires. In other words, it will effectively force patients to discriminate by race. But isn't that what the woke really want after all? It proves that they were right all along, and that we need our Marxist overlords to ensure that we all play fair.

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I'm not sure that in our virtual age most people really care anymore about cause and effect or the propounding of a policy and its ultimate results: people want to be seen as "caring and compassionate" (esp the politicians and celebs), they want to signal that they aren't a Deplorable bigot and broadcast the proper tribal beliefs on their various social platforms.

Whether anything from DEI or quotas for med students or Defund the Police etc makes sense or will have negative consequences is either irrelevant or a question for another day...

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“White people have to come to the forefront and stop the systemic system that’s been put into play by white people.”

What ARE these people smoking when they write this stuff. This sentence is nonsensical....the 'systemic system?' Aren't ALL systems, but nature, FREAKIN SYSTEMIC????

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Glorious people's culture revolution, make it woke

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I recommend people watch Immaculée Ilibagiza talk about what happened in Rwanda, how neighbor turned willing to kill neighbor. It is where our “racist” infatuations will/have led. Man should be treated/judged based on his behaviors. Group think/mentality often leaves the observer wondering who forgot to bring the brain.

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One of the problems I see with this approach: Resistance to DEI is interpreted as evidence that the proponents are going in the right direction, that there is indeed a latent inter-group conflict that is being brought to light by growing revolutionary consciousness, and that conflict is the cause of people resisting DEI measures.

When I see these sorts of programs in California arts organizations and local government, they are similar to what is described here. But the proponents see what they are doing as beneficial and as as insufficiently radical, as not going far enough. And one of the reasons given is that people disagree with the already instituted measures.

This makes me skeptical that a battle of ideas will be effective in reducing the power of this political movement. Is there a way around this impasse?

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Great comment. You have to shut down these departments. There's no other way.

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This is a really important point. The Marxists exploit guilt and shame to push their agenda forward with brute force, not persuasion. When you’re deemed to be guilty, any sign of protest is declared to be nothing other than proof of your guilt. Therefore, the ideologues are impervious to counter argument, course correction, or compromise. This holds even when the disastrous consequences of their policies play out in reality.

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Why do people go there? There are other Universities....online. Lobby Federal and State bodies to complain. Taking the income stream away is best antidote to stupidity.

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where do you go to get an online medical degree? what federal and state bodies should we lobby and expect to be listened to?

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They’re all nearly exactly the same.

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If you guys haven't checked it out, go to ChatGPT and ask it about DEI and other Marxist stuff... it's addicting.

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Universities are a vital part of this. But certainly it isn’t just historic institutions like universities that are currently implementing DEI policies. In Davis, California, we have these policies at at least these levels of organization:

Yolo County Government

Yolo County Library

Community Clinic

Yolo County Food Bank

City of Davis Government

City of Davis Arts Commission

University of California at Davis

Humanities Division

Various Arts Departments

Davis Joint School District

Davis School Arts Foundation

Yolo (County) Arts Commission

Local Arts Non-profit Organizations: Theatre companies, galleries, dance studios, music ensembles, etc.

Local Newspaper

Regional Newspaper

Davis Community Media Center

I don’t want to abandon any of these levels of organization. So I would love to see an action plan for addressing this at all these levels. My questions are 1) Has anyone formulated a comprehensive suite of policies to replace existing DEI policies at all significant organizational levels in a city? and 2) If not, would it be an effective action plan to compose such a suite of policies and present them to the relevant administrators? and 3) If this would not be effective, what are the alternative steps people can take to introduce leadership across these administrative levels that would implement better policies?

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