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Posted on 08/18/2025 10:17:05 AM PDT by karpov
Kentucky’s recent passage of House Bill 4, which eliminates “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs at public universities and colleges, represents a crucial step toward restoring meritocracy, academic freedom, and intellectual diversity to higher education in the Bluegrass State.
The bill was passed in the 2025 legislative session over the veto of Democratic governor Andy Beshear, who predictably claimed that its supporters were motivated by “hate.” In fact, HB 4 provides a necessary corrective to years of institutional overreach that has discriminated against students, stifled open inquiry, and punished dissenting voices on campus.
The case of Dr. Allan Josephson exemplifies this troubling trend in Kentucky. Josephson, a nationally recognized child-and-adolescent psychologist, was fired by the University of Louisville in 2017 after speaking in a personal capacity at a Heritage Foundation panel on treatment approaches for gender dysphoria.
Josephson sued the university for violating his First Amendment rights, and the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ordered the university to pay him $1.6 million in damages.
U of L’s treatment of Josephson reveals the extent to which DEI-driven ideological conformity had superseded academic freedom in Kentucky and elsewhere. Rather than engaging with his arguments on their merits, university administrators chose to silence him through demotion and harassment. This pattern of behavior—punishing faculty for expressing views that challenge prevailing orthodoxies—has become disturbingly common across American higher education.
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Oh no, that can’t be allowed.
Passed over Beshear’s veto. So tired of him. He’s running for President. Pushes abortion as a way to climb the rat Party but always adds, oh, but I love Jesus! Weird, the attempt to reconcile liberal ideology with Christianity and the natural law. Ky needs a Republican Governor.
Red state. what took so long?
To those without merit, merit is hateful.
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