Leftist activists in Arizona and nationwide are seeking to infuse a discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion agenda into every aspect of campus life.
FILE - This Nov. 14, 2008 file photo shows the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, at the downtown campus of Arizona State University in Phoenix.
Take the Cronkite School, where a new report from the Goldwater Institute, where I work, shows that the mandatory “Diversity and Civility” class hides a radical agenda behind its innocuous-sounding course title. Aspiring journalists are told, for instance, that the statement “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” is offensive because it communicates that “people of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race.
Cronkite School students aren’t the only ones having cultural and political indoctrination forced down their throats. ASU requires all faculty to take “inclusive communities” training that teaches some of the most extreme DEI concepts, including references to how White supremacy is “normalized in society” and how “systems of superiority” were “written into the foundational documents of our nation,” as well as references to “white fragility” and the need for “transformative justice.
According to this DEI regime, American society — including the university itself — systematically oppresses people of underprivileged races, ethnicities, sexual orientations and gender identities. The only solution is to dismantle these social structures by turning power against the “oppressors.” But state legislatures and boards of trustees for state-run universities — such as the Arizona Board of Regents — can hold these institutions of higher learning accountable. An important first step would be adopting the Freedom From Indoctrination Act, a Goldwater Institute reform that takes on politicized course requirements like the journalism class at ASU.
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