Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Michigan on the Road to Nowhere
Aired: 2024-11-01
Duration: 12:25


=== Diversity Equity 2.0 (07:38) ===

[00:00:00]  Pigs have wings.
[00:00:01]  The New York Times has criticized a university DEI program.
[00:00:06]  This month, we got a great long article called The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI.
[00:00:13]  What went wrong?
[00:00:15]  The subhead is, a decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.
[00:00:23]  Some states are banning college DEI, but Michigan has gone full tilt.
[00:00:30]  In 2016, it announced DEI 1.0, a five-year strategic plan.
[00:00:37]  The university president at the time said that academic excellence is inseparable from diversity, equity, and inclusion.
[00:00:45]  Last year, Michigan announced another five-year plan called DEI 2.0.
[00:00:51]  As the new plan notes, It was clear that achieving the comprehensive goals set forth in DEI 1.0 would require fundamental and at times seismic shifts in the university's organizational culture.
[00:01:06]  Five years of shaking weren't enough, so at the main Ann Arbor campus alone, for DEI 2.0, the number of employees who work in DEI-related offices or have diversity Equity or inclusion in their job titles increased by 70%,
[00:01:22]  reaching 241.
[00:01:25]  The five top bosses of those 241 people are all women.
[00:01:31]  Here are some of their 236 minions lined up for a group photo.
[00:01:35]  They meet every month.
[00:01:37]  They've got a lot to do.
[00:01:39]  The main school at Michigan is the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, or LSA.
[00:01:45]  Its inclusive teaching page explains how to sniff out white supremacy culture, which is everywhere because white supremacy culture is the water we swim in.
[00:01:56]  It's disguised as such things as perfectionism, objectivity, a sense of urgency, either-or thinking, or individualism.
[00:02:06]  If you see any of that, you must disrupt it.
[00:02:10]  This cracked DEI team has been shaking the campus for a year and just issued its DEI 2.0 Year One Progress Report.
[00:02:20]  It starts with a message from the president, an Asian by the name of Santa J. Ono.
[00:02:28]  Santa explains that diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values of our university.
[00:02:34]  They must be at the heart of everything we do.
[00:02:37]  Here is the goal.
[00:02:39]  In living color.
[00:02:41]  People. To have ever more diverse students, faculty, and staff.
[00:02:46]  How do you get that?
[00:02:47]  Just look at the picture.
[00:02:49]  Just phase out white men.
[00:02:52]  This 88-page pilot support uses the words Black or African American 37 times.
[00:02:58]  Native American or Indigenous 41 times.
[00:03:02]  Some variant of Latino or Hispanic 11 times and Asian 8 times.
[00:03:07]  The enemy hovers almost invisibly in the background.
[00:03:11]  The word white appears only once.
[00:03:15]  Anti-racism explicitly challenges systems and norms grounded in white supremacy and anti-blackness.
[00:03:22]  The report is fixated on practice.
[00:03:25]  It uses the word 50 times in 88 pages.
[00:03:29]  Goals and practices.
[00:03:31]  Communities of practice, DEI practices, best practices, exemplary practices, creative practice, integrated practices.
[00:03:39]  Here's a little for you.
[00:03:41]  What do these words mean?
[00:03:43]  Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within a variety of settings using micro, mezzo, and macro practice skills.
[00:03:53]  I finally figured out what practice means.
[00:03:56]  It's the actual mechanics of discriminating against white men.
[00:04:00]  And it's working.
[00:04:02]  Look at all this increase in non-white staff since 2016.
[00:04:06]  Asians up 41.5%.
[00:04:09]  Blacks up 23.1%.
[00:04:12]  Hispanics a whopping 60.5%.
[00:04:14]  But uh-oh, Michigan lost some American Indians.
[00:04:18]  Maybe they can hire Senator Warren.
[00:04:21]  Look at the upper left.
[00:04:22]  An 18.9% increase in women brought them to 70.8% of the staff.
[00:04:29]  Women run the place.
[00:04:31]  No stats on white men.
[00:04:34]  DEI 2.0 loves pilot programs.
[00:04:38]  They're mentioned 24 times as in culture-shifting pilot programs.
[00:04:43]  I think pilot programs are supposed to sound like innovative, exciting new ways to disrupt white supremacy.
[00:04:50]  And that goal takes many forms.
[00:04:53]  More than 600 students, staff, faculty, and others Here's a snappy visual of a year's worth of DEI training.
[00:05:11]  53,868 doses for staff.
[00:05:15]  2,695 doses for graduate student instructors and teaching assistants.
[00:05:21]  But it's never enough.
[00:05:23]  In order to reach UM's 60,000-plus faculty and staff, additional trainers will be recruited.
[00:05:31]  That's partly because diversity has spread in every direction.
[00:05:34]  And it's not just enhancing the experiences of LGBTQIA2S-plus communities, who are mentioned 10 times.
[00:05:45]  Now, there's neurodiversity equity and inclusion.
[00:05:49]  This applies to people whose brains aren't normal.
[00:05:52]  Not just autism or ADHD, but such things as tick disorders and dyscalculia.
[00:05:59]  The report says new campus buildings must have adult changing stations, no more than 2,000 feet apart and no more than two floors apart.
[00:06:10]  What's an adult changing station?
[00:06:12]  It's a room where an incontinent adult in a wheelchair can be given a shower and a change.
[00:06:19]  Michigan has even a Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program that uses land as a tool for facilitating community integration, mental and emotional health and well-being, culturally
[00:06:34]  appropriate food access, and overall cultural retention.
[00:06:39]  Not even Michigan's Arboretum and Gardens are spared.
[00:06:44]  They have a strategic plan to Pillar 1:
[00:06:49]  Catalyzing equity and justice through bio-cultural diversity
[00:06:54]  You see, like all organizations that work to create experience and meaning, Botanical Gardens and Arborita are deeply enmeshed within interlocking systems of dominance.
[00:07:08]  Who knew?
[00:07:09]  The solution is a polycentric paradigm, de-centering singular ways of knowing and co-creating meaning through a variety of epistemic frames, including dominant scientific and horti-cultural modalities,

=== Black Students Speak Out (04:19) ===

[00:07:25]  two-eyed seeing, kino ma'aj, and other co-created power realignments.
[00:07:32]  The Times article reports that black people are not happy about all this branching out.
[00:07:42]  Yes, that's her name, of the Black Student Union explained that DEI is superficial and that she doesn't hear enough about blackness.
[00:07:52]  Blacks say Michigan's DEI is too inclusive, systematically neglects black students, and fails to denounce and combat anti-blackness.
[00:08:02]  Don't they care about adult changing stations or dyscalculia?
[00:08:09]  Blacks say Michigan can't create a more welcoming environment for black students because it doesn't enroll enough of them.
[00:08:17]  That is a problem, because ever since a state referendum in 2006, Michigan can't use racial preferences, and blacks have been stuck at about 4% of undergraduates.
[00:08:29]  Before that, it had close to 10%, but that took heroic efforts.
[00:08:34]  A 2021 study by the Center of Equal Opportunity found that the black-white odds ratio increased significantly in 2005, rising to 70 to 1. The odds ratio means that if a black and a white applicant had the same qualifications,
[00:08:50]  the black was 70 times more likely to be admitted.
[00:08:53]  The odds ratio for Hispanics was 46 or 48 to 1, depending on the measure used.
[00:09:00]  In 2023, the Supreme Court sharply limited race preferences, so Michigan has to use all sorts of jiggery-pokery.
[00:09:08]  For example, the Times says it puts a high premium on applicants who support DEI.
[00:09:14]  And what do you know?
[00:09:16]  Most of them turn out to be BIPOCs.
[00:09:19]  Many people at Michigan told the Times that white women are some of the craziest DEI police.
[00:09:25]  They want to do something, be a part of the cause, said one professor.
[00:09:30]  Also, since there is such a din about diversity and exclusion, any campus disagreement inevitably becomes more complicated because DEI gurus have to pronounce on the solution.
[00:09:44]  Naturally, there is a witch-hunt atmosphere.
[00:09:47]  The cocktail chatter is, I can't say anything in class anymore.
[00:09:52]  I'm going to get run out of class.
[00:09:54]  There's an enormous amount of fear.
[00:09:56]  No one dares criticize DEI.
[00:09:59]  A former dean, a woman of color, said that endless reports, directives, teaching tools, lectures, and seminars are a fog that hides a startling lack of substance.
[00:10:11]  No one knew what they were supposed to be doing, the former dean said.
[00:10:15]  And no one would tell us, but we had to show that we were doing something.
[00:10:20]  Well, of course no one knew.
[00:10:22]  Neither the Times nor the former dean has the slightest idea what the real problem is, which is that the whole thing is a fraud, top to bottom.
[00:10:32]  It's supposed to be about breaking down barriers, but there are no barriers.
[00:10:36]  It's about fighting white supremacy, but there is no white supremacy.
[00:10:41]  It's about fussing over the marginalized, but the only marginalized are white men, who are too chicken-hearted to say so.
[00:10:50]  Princess Jamaria Mbup says Michigan needs to combat anti-blackness.
[00:10:56]  If there were ever any of that, it would be burnt at the stake in a massive bonfire.
[00:11:02]  This giant hoax started with the absurd assumption that blacks are just as smart and hardworking as white people.
[00:11:09]  Then it spread to Hispanics, to claims that homosexuality is wonderful.
[00:11:15]  Neurodivergency is a gift.
[00:11:17]  American Indians have scientific ways of knowing.
[00:11:21]  Fat is beautiful.
[00:11:22]  The habits of hottentots are better than European civilization.
[00:11:26]  It is mass insanity, of which all this hippy-happy Michigan DEI stuff is just a tiny part, even though it has swallowed up a quarter of a billion dollars, poisoned thousands of minds, and punished countless deserving white men.

=== Michigan's Marching Road (00:41) ===

[00:11:43]  Some state legislatures are fighting back.
[00:11:47]  The Chronicle of Higher Education fearfully tracks the states that have banned, limited, or tried to ban campus DEI.
[00:11:55]  Michigan isn't one of them.
[00:11:58]  Two weeks after the Times article, the student paper hadn't written one word about it.
[00:12:05]  Michigan seems to be determined to keep on marching down the road to nowhere.
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