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Diversity offices to close on public Texas college campuses as new law goes into effect
wfaa ^ | 01/23/2024

Posted on 01/23/2024 2:46:33 PM PST by devane617

DALLAS — The new year welcomed 30 new state laws in Texas.

One of them could dramatically impact higher education.

The Lone Star State will no longer allow its publicly funded colleges and universities to have Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - or DEI - offices.

"Diversity" refers to the representation of people from a variety of backgrounds – particularly referring to people of different races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, religions and more at all levels in an organization, including the leadership level.

"Equity" focuses on fairness and justice, mainly referring to compensation and whether people are being paid or treated fairly.

"Inclusion" shines a light on fairness and justice, particularly referring to compensation and whether people are being paid or treated fairly, that's according to DEI experts.

(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: academia; dei; diversity; education; texas
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1 posted on 01/23/2024 2:46:33 PM PST by devane617
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Well, I like the baby-talk jive, but maybe Texas is sick of racism against whites.


2 posted on 01/23/2024 2:48:54 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Wow, three entries and no “Don’t Mess with Texas”, yet.


3 posted on 01/23/2024 2:50:50 PM PST by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: devane617

Best news I’ve read today. Sick of “diversity”.


4 posted on 01/23/2024 2:52:36 PM PST by woweeitsme
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To: devane617

WFAA obviously thinks ending DEI is a bad thing.


5 posted on 01/23/2024 2:53:56 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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"'Diversity' refers to the representation of people from a variety of backgrounds – particularly referring to people of different races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, religions and more at all levels in an organization, including the leadership level."

No, WFAN. It refers to reverse discrimination and hiring under-qualified or no-qualified people instead of whites. It refers to lock-step "thinking" compliant with ultra-liberal orthodoxy; no dissent or diverging views allowed. It refers to dissenters losing their careers after decades of sterling contributions and service. It refers to re-education of those stubborn people who won't fall in line.

What a freaking, craven, ignorant idiot.

6 posted on 01/23/2024 2:56:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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It took "racism" (George Floyd) to increase the use of DEI.

It took "anti-Semitism" (campus anti-Israel protests) to decrease the use of DEI.

Our nation's policies are determined only by how they benefit or hurt this or that minority group. How whites are affected is irrelevant.

7 posted on 01/23/2024 3:08:15 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: devane617

In other words, they are bringing back slavery for blacks.


8 posted on 01/23/2024 3:10:16 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: devane617

DIE!
Excellent News!


9 posted on 01/23/2024 3:19:14 PM PST by Zathras
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To: devane617

“”As a black woman, I want to continue to break barriers within this industry. “”

Nope.

Not as a leader, not as an example, no sir, “As a black woman.”

And “breaking barriers?”

Blacks have been installed on every TV show in the known and yet-to-be-discovered universe.

The only thing that is breaking is the speed of sound by HRs and Producers hauling butt to her with contracts in hand.

And the White candidates for the jobs?

Maybe the midnight traffic reports or keeping up with the obituaries.

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10 posted on 01/23/2024 3:27:38 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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We didn’t have too much administrative funding for groups when I went to university. There were groups, but they were usually privately funded or managed by students on the campus anyway - not necessarily by full time administrative careerists. Some of the groups had long-term benefactors who either gave time or money (or both) and helped the groups for a decade or longer. They served as mentors from the off-campus community to mentor the on-campus students in their group. Some of the groups would have to fundraise by selling cookies or T-shirts etc.

At university we had gay groups (it was called GLAAD then), Jewish groups (campus Hillel), Catholic groups (run by the local church priest) and even Black and Hispanic groups, and women support groups. They were recognized by the administration, but were not funded by the university except that some funds were available to host events for speakers, and made some rooms available for these events. We even had an Evangelical group that had a big event every year to talk about rock groups and rock songs, but it was a bait and switch - the posters for the event were cool, but ultimately the pastor just tried to convince us that these bands were satanic and that we should join him in renouncing Satan. We had, if I recall, a Young Republicans groups that sponsored a debate twice a year but I soon realized it was a rigged debate and the speakers were a “team” that went around the country doing scripted debates just to take college money to put on a show.

I liked the Cinema group. Every Friday they had a great movie, sometimes even first run features, and it was shown in a very large theater but you had to bring your own popcorn :-)


11 posted on 01/23/2024 3:28:14 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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BTW that is Cleo Greene at WFAA.

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12 posted on 01/23/2024 3:30:09 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: devane617

While this is good to see, why was this crap allowed to infest Texas colleges in the first place?


13 posted on 01/23/2024 3:32:20 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: devane617

“Diversity” - Ripping off white people


14 posted on 01/23/2024 3:38:11 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Diverse females everywhere are soon going to lawyer-up.


15 posted on 01/23/2024 3:49:24 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Excellent! Florida banned this crap too. Every Red State needs to ban it.


16 posted on 01/23/2024 4:07:46 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Old Yeller

Don’t mess with Texas. I was watching the Stars drop the puck in Detroit.


17 posted on 01/23/2024 4:10:15 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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‘...according to ‘DEI experts’”

What an absolute dumb@$$hole


18 posted on 01/23/2024 4:13:38 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: devane617

DEI = not white male.


19 posted on 01/23/2024 4:16:24 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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RE: Wow, three entries and no “Don’t Mess with Texas”, yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHLoHou8uY


20 posted on 01/23/2024 4:29:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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