The Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation asked the Missouri Attorney General to investigate a “business boot camp” at Missouri State University that specifically excluded white males. The story began getting media coverage—mostly from conservative news media, of course, since the rest regards this as “good” discrimination as an extension of the DEI fad. Caught red- or at least pink-handed, MSU cried “Never mind!” and announced that future business boot camps would be open to everyone, even evil white males. However, the school’s oxymoronically-named president Clif Smart really and truly said this:

“Frankly, I still don’t think we did anything wrong … given that we have multiple cohorts of this going on and this was just one cohort that was limited. We won’t do that. We’ll do a better job on the marketing and information (and) dissemination side and review the process to make sure that everyone has a chance to participate, but we’re not going to exclude people.”

Never mind the fact that I instantly want to strangle anyone who resorts to jargon like “cohorts” used that way: Smart apparently never read Brown v. Board of Education and its iconic declaration that separate is inherently unequal. He literally said that as long as there are equivalent classes that allow those icky white guys, he doesn’t see what the problem is with blocking them from other opportunities. Writes Prof. Jacobsen, appropriately, “That sounds like MSU was upset for being caught, not for discriminating…what good is a promise from a university that violated its own (and federal and state) anti-discrimination rules, [thet] when caught said it did nothing wrong, and appears only to have succumbed due to media attention? What will happen when the media attention fades?”

Wondering what other unethical and discriminatory activities go on at a school with a culture molded by people like Smart. Jacobsen vows to ensure that “Oopsie!” is not accepted as MSU’s excuse. He demands that MSU “publicly and officially acknowledge its wrongdoing, and make clear what steps it will take to make amends to the people wrongly excluded based on race and sex.” Moreover, he says, “Missouri State also needs to state whether there are any other segregated or discriminatory programs, what investigation it has done to identify such programs, and what specific steps it will take to prevent such misconduct. It’s not enough, when caught, to say ‘oops, sorry.’ Sunlight needs to shine on the nature of DEI activities at Missouri State, and how such a blatantly discriminatory program was allowed to happen in the first place.”

The professor left out one thing, an important one. Clif Smart has to go, and quick. Like so many true-believing educators today, he does not support equal protection under the law for all, but believes in compensatory discrimination, which is both illegal and unethical. Whatever cultural rot is seeping into the foundation of MSU, he is obviously responsible for it. His statement that he saw nothing wrong with straight up racial and gender discrimination is justification for firing for cause.