Bravo to Prof. William Jacobson’s Equal Protection Project. Its civil rights complaint filed against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed the flaming racial discrimination engaged in by the Creative Regal Women of Knowledge, or “The CRWN” program. (Nice acronym-making there, MIT. I’d let the folks at Harvard try the next one while you stick to equations…) Jacobsen’s blog, Legal Insurrection, announced the complaint in a post, MIT Program Open Only To “Women of Color” Challenged By Equal Protection Project As Violating Civil Rights Laws,a week ago. After it received considerable local publicity, MIT tried to weasel its way out of the scandal by changing the way the program is described on its website, as you can see above.
Are they really that dense at MIT? Do its lawyer really think an announcement that says, “This program is designed to exclude white women, but we can’t stop you if you’re white and are determined to take part in a program where you’re obviously not welcome” complies with anti-discrimination laws. Can you imagine a college program described as one “designed to inspire white women” and “to support and celebrate” whites, but adding that its “open” to non-whites too causing anything but an uproar?
“The entire structure of the CRWN program is exclusionary and limited to women of color,” Jacobsen told reporters, adding that the remedial changes are an “admission of wrongdoing.” “MIT’s after-the-fact website wording change does not alter the serious violations of the civil rights laws that have been taking place for years and were ongoing in the spring 2024 semester. The CRWN program’s exclusionary language necessarily deterred white female and all male students from applying. The OCR should open a formal investigation and impose remedial and other sanctions on MIT.”
Undeniable discrimination like the CRWN program persists because it is bolstered by the useful lie that there is no such thing as reverse discrimination. The law and the Constitution say otherwise. It will be ugly, and the protesters will be tarred as racists, but this won’t stop until whites decide that they are being abused and discriminated against in these various DEI plots and begin saying so, loudly, clearly, and while fully employing the advocacy and legal weapons available. If they want to avoid conflict and be weenies, they will find their liberties and opportunities being stripped away. There is an entire political party happy to make that happen.
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Any program open to Latinx candidates is inherently suspicious anyway. There is not such designation as “Latinx”.
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If MIT is dumb enough to fall for the DEI scam, what hope does that leave the rest of us?
Massachusetts has no solid principles to follow. The schools here are lost. Funny to think that MIT used to mean something.
“A Rhode Island-based conservative legal group on Monday filed a federal civil rights complaint against MIT, alleging a program for female undergraduate students of color unlawfully discriminates against white students who aren’t able to participate. ” Boston Globe
“A conservative group is filing a federal civil rights complaint against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claiming a program at the Cambridge school discriminates based on both gender and race.” ABC News
This must mean that civil rights and non discrimination are core conservative values.
They sure aren’t progressive values, not any more.
Not unless they can be weaponized to hold on to power.
I want to highlight the phrase “…other minoritized ethnicities.” The word “minoritized” was carefully chosen to imply that these women were purposely forced to wear the moniker of “minority” by some majority power, as opposed to the simple fact that certain genetic skin tones are less frequently seen in the U.S. Shame on the members of the MIT administration for inventing a problem where one didn’t need to exist. It’s just one more level of abstraction by which people can claim victimhood; I was “minoritized.”
I have news for all of you women of MIT, and I don’t care what color you are. You’re attending MIT, which is (or was at one time) one of the most prestigious colleges in the country. Only the very brightest apply and only the brightest of the applicants are accepted…
The only reason you would ever believe you’re a victim is because you’re too blinded by your own racial/gender biases to realize you aren’t.