Just Don't Call It DEI -- Digby

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/07/12/just-dont-call-it-dei/

The most illiterate imbecile to ever sit in the Oval Office is dictating the policies and curriculum of the nation’s most prestigious universities —- and making them pay for the privilege:

Columbia University has discussed paying roughly $200 million as part of a deal with the Trump administration to settle allegations of civil-rights violations, according to people familiar with the matter.

Part of the money would be paid to the government, people familiar with the matter said. White House officials said the deal also includes payments to individual students and professors whose rights allegedly have been violated.

The deal goes beyond antisemitism and addresses administration concerns about what it views as racial preferences on campus, one of the White House officials said. The Trump administration envisions the deal having a lasting impact on Columbia’s campus culture, the official said.

The deal also includes provisions that the administration says will promote merit-based admission and hiring, as well as transparency about foreign gifts, the official said.

An agreement would see the restoration of at least some of Columbia’s federal funding.

How about this one?

Harvard leaders have discussed creating a program that people briefed on the talks described as a center for conservative scholarship, possibly modeled on Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal…

A spokesman for Harvard said an initiative under discussion “will ensure exposure to the broadest ranges of perspectives on issues, and will not be partisan, but rather will model the use of evidence-based, rigorous logic and a willingness to engage with opposing views.” He added that the school has been accelerating efforts to set up the initiative, which would “promote and support viewpoint diversity.”

So “viewpoint diversity” is good now? Good to know. I’m sure the pro-Palestinian students will be relieved to hear it.

This makes me feel as sick as anything else we’ve seen during this most misbegotten sx months of American history since the civil war. The willingness of these prized bastions of intellectual freedom to bend to the whims and fascist agendas of a cretin and his henchmen is massively depressing.

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1. IMO, TSF will continue to threaten to withhold federal funds to colleges

and universities until their policies are "Whites Only".