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Frankly, I think these programs are terrifying. As they are supported, even driven, by governments, media, large corporations and institutions, not to mention social justice lunatics, the possibility for the individual to suffer some Kafka-esque fate is absolutely real. It seems as though it’s now a question of numbers, and the willingness of decent people to mobilize and reject this madness before they are out-numbered, out-voted by people with a vested interest in this loathsome Compassion Industry.

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DEI will be an unfortunate microchapter inn our history, just not soon enough. It will be shown as actually harmful to the groups it is supposedly trying to help. See the UCLA Med School experiment in their anesthesia department. Even the people tasked with enhancing UCLA's reputation are speaking out about how poorly the DEI students are prepared for even simple biology. We all have access to backgrounds and bios before selecting a physician (or lawyer, or accountant, or...) and when choosing someone to perform something so important, it's not unreasonable to see people opt out of 'marginalized community members' with degrees due to a fear they didn't truly earn them. For Yale specifically, it's also not unreasonable for people to avoid hiring the headaches that are DEI fanatics, especially fanatics without true workplace skills. HR departments have already quietly started avoiding LinkedIn profiles and resumes with 'They/Them' as their pronouns due to the drama comes with the applicant. None of this should be surprising. The only surprise is that it took as long as it's taking.

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My Daughter got her PHD about 12 years ago , it took her 7 years of research that was considered groundbreaking, the BS she went through in labs, professors, housing, grants funding etc was high and now we have this shit . No wonder she went into business , she told me multiple times that the schools were so corrupt even back then , and now we have DEI that is going to just tank it all . It's hard not to think it's all going to shit. Horse and buggy here we come.

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The University of Austin. An idea whose time has come.

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In other words, your merit as a scientist does not matter, nor prioritizing merit in others. What matters instead is proving to a bunch of neo Maoist militants that you agree with their regressive, divisive, racist dehumanizing ideology that reduces every unique individual to skin pigment and sex organs. This is yet another creepy manifestation of how poisoned academia has become by the myopic sanctimonious religion of wokeism.

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They’ve invented some amazing science that enables the resurrection of Lysenko and the Red Guard. The Daily Double of Academic Freedom.

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If Yale wants to create an equitable and inclusive environment the best thing they can do is eliminate their DEI programs and fire all the people administering them. Spend the saved money on lawyers to fight off the grifters that will sue them. They can afford it, and we as a society need them to win the confrontation.

They should also completely revamp their admissions, hiring, and tenure processes and committees to weed out fanatics and extremists.

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At this point, we'd all be much better off if Yale didn't exist.

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With all due respect, no.

Remember the old adage:

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

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Furthermore….Your “DEI rubric” score will be evaluated by the DEI administrators as well as by the nucleic acids, enzymes, and lipoproteins, etc. you will be studying and researching.

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This insanity will only end when a sufficient number of parents refuse to spend their hard-earned money sending their kids to these ludicrously expensive indoctrination centers. Every sane alumni donor should withold every cent from these "universities." We're in the middle of a real-life Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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Results of DEI at the UCLA Medical School: " more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics"

https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-failed-medical-school-how-racial-preferences-supposedly-outlawed-in-california-have-persisted-at-ucla/

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America is like the massive ship Dali whose essential systems (education, government, information) are malfunctioning at a critical moment. We are dangerously drifting, unguided by reason, toward the Key bridge and the malfunctions cannot be corrected in time.

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Everyone does realize that this would not happen at an all male school.. think about that for a second Free Thinkers. Really. Think about that... Think: Not hate (that's too easy). Do the hard stuff if you call yourself a Free Thinker.

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It's the fault of the RIGHT to let this happen over the past 50 years... we all thought it was "just a phase" at the Universities..... man were we wrong...

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So Yale declares war on reason itself, promotes what is essentially a version of Stalinism and this is the sort of weak-tea treatment that it gets? That they should just "put an end to this misguided experiment"?

The experiment isn't misguided. It is deliberate. It is purposeful and it is destructive. It is antithetical to the very notion of academic freedom.

Why does the Free Press highlight the complete downfall of such institutions and then come back with such dull replies to this madness? When will the Free Press make the only inevitable connection: the Yale faculty is likely over 90% Democrat. If this is true (and it is) then it stands to reason that THIS is the source of your problem...

Where are you people? Who are you? Bari Weiss and the Free Press will seek out any version of anit-semitism they can find and highlight it. Great. But if there is a meaningful connection to be made between the beloved Democratic Party and the complete rot in the United States, it goes largely ignored.

It matters that the people at Yale are all Democrats. And it matters that so many Democrats are promoting this nonsense. It matters. And the longer this publication continues to ignore these fact, the less this publication will matter.

The Democratic Party of America, DELENDA EST!

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Political purity tests like this were common in the Soviet Union and Communist China, but have no place in America.

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