At the University of Michigan, A Controversy Reveals Dishonesty and Hypocrisy Underlying the DEI Fad

If Donald Trump accomplishes nothing more in his next four years than ending the nation’s tolerance to open borders while fawning over “good illegal immigrants” and driving a metaphorical stake through The Great Stupid’s DEI fad, electing him will have been worth all chaos that will come along with it.

DEI thrives as a hypocritical way to discriminate against white men and shift to a society based on rewarding achievement, diligence and ability to one based on group membership. That makes it un-American to the core. At the University of Michigan, the “director of the university’s office of academic multicultural initiatives”—you know, DEI—spoke out at a conference of such officers the university to opine that her university was “controlled by wealthy Jews and that because Jewish students are “wealthy and privileged” the don’t need diversity services. “Jewish people have no genetic DNA that would connect them to the land of Israel,” Rachel Dawson was quoted as saying.

Her comments at the meeting were not recorded, but what witnesses said they heard was reported to the Anti-Defamation League of Michigan, which issued a complaint to the university. The University hired law firm Covington and Burling to investigate, and in its report, the firm said that the preponderance of the evidence supported the complaint.

The first response by Michigan’s Board of Regents was to make Dawson attend classes. The Michigan president’s office issued a written warning to her that additional incidents could result in termination, and that she would have to undergo training in antisemitism and leadership. Having your diversity, equity and inclusion officer get remedial training on how to embrace diversity and not be biased against certain groups is like a four star restaurant hiring a chef and making him go to cooking class. A member of the board named Mark Bernstein made essentially the same point, writing in protest that “It does not appear that Ms. Dawson has been held accountable in any meaningful way. Of course, this makes a mockery of your/our commitment to address antisemitism and broaden our D.E.I. efforts to include antisemitism and/or Jewish students.”

His solution: fire her. And fired she was. But as night follows day, Dawson hired an attorney and while denying that she said what witnesses at the conference said she said, her attorney argues that she had the right to make such statements and the university, as a public institution, can’t punish her for it. Ah! So we are now at the pint where a university administrator charged with maintaining the values of diversity and inclusion at the institution is trying to keep her job by claiming that the First Amendment protects her bigoted opinions. Perfect. Welcome to the Bizarro World of DEI.

After I read the Times story on this mess, I bet myself a million bucks that Dawson is an African American. I checked: she is; that’s her above. Then I wondered, “Are DEI officers overwhelmingly black women?” It sure seem like it. The amazing answer: nobody seems to know, or if they do, the answer is being deliberately obscured. After all, what would more decisively demonstrate the hypocrisy of the DEI scam, a direct outgrowth of the George Floyd Freakout even though the death of Floyd was never shown to be a racial incident, than the DEI machine itself not being diverse and inclusive?

One survey claims that 76% of Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) are white and that women are slightly in the majority. The College Fix did its own study, and determined that chief diversity officer positions at major universities primarily go to black males and females. “Though black females are only six percent of the population, they obtained about 55 percent of top diversity officer roles among the country’s top 50 colleges and universities,” the survey concluded. “While black Americans are only 13 percent of the population, they were 80 percent of the highest-ranking diversity officials. Meanwhile, Latinos were only six percent, despite being 19 percent of the population. Asians were only two percent, despite being seven percent of the U.S. White people did not fare well, also only getting about two percent of the top roles.”

On Reddit, one commenter said that he looked up the chief diversity officers at the 50 largest American companies and found 35 blacks, four Hispanics, three whites, two Asians, and a South Asian. There were 34 women and eleven men,a dn five companies did not have a DEI position. In 2021, The Washington Post surveyed the 50 most valuable companies from S&P Global Market Intelligence and found that the vast majority of CDOs were black.

So where does that 76% white statistic come from? Fast Company attributes it to “data limitations,” whatever that means. I suspect it means that the real numbers are embarrassing and undermine any claims of integrity DEI activists could have, so the 76% number is imaginary.

The University of Michigan’s dilemma of finding itself potentially forced to keep a DEI chief who believes Jews are rich and don’t need DEI assistance, however, doesn’t need statistics to illustrate what a unethical blight on American society the DEI scam has been.

4 thoughts on “At the University of Michigan, A Controversy Reveals Dishonesty and Hypocrisy Underlying the DEI Fad

    • Wow! What a story, and it appears not to be over yet. It’s as if it was “ripped from the pages’ of 1984.

      And people are paying* as much as $50K per year to attend these snake pits. SMH

    • College administrators seem to have a really strong martinet streak. And no sense of due process or even fair play. I’m not sure why. Maybe Curmie could enlighten us as he is in the belly of the beast. Perhaps it’s because they answer to no one. The boards of trustees are totally hands-off, or so it seems.

  1. The aspect of diversity that’s always mystified me is the notion that having minority kids on campus will enhance the lives of the majority kids on campus. Evidently, it’s good for the majority kids to be around otherwise unqualified minority kids. The minority kids are simply show ponies so majority kids won’t be startled when the under qualified minority kids show up next to them as they move into the work force. If I were a minority kid, I’d say, “Shove it. I’m not going to educate and enlighten you about people like me. Figure it out your own damned self. And by the way, I’m just like you. I’m a human and I’m going to college to get a degree so I can better myself and my family. And thank you very much, I’m going to a junior college for starters.”

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