Chronicling the creeping demise of Diversity™, Equity™, and Inclusion™, otherwise known as institutionalized racism.
Block on Trump anti-DEI executive orders lifted by federal appeals court
I’m not sure about the constitutionality of a rogue (liberal) federal judge in Baltimore being capable of halting a nationwide policy shift that won a mandate via election just a few months ago.
At any rate, it turned out to be merely a speed bump on the road to the Golden Age.
Via NPR (emphasis added):
An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, handing the Trump administration a win after a string of setbacks defending President Donald Trump's agenda from dozens of lawsuits.
The decision from a three-judge panel allows the orders to be enforced as a lawsuit challenging them plays out. The appeals court judges halted a nationwide injunction from U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore.
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Trump Department of Education orders halt to all ‘race-conscious programs and policies,’ including moratorium on standardized testing requirements
Via Inside Higher Ed (emphasis added):
In the Education Department’s sweeping Dear Colleague letter last month, acting assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor wrote that colleges must eliminate all race-conscious programs and policies, from scholarships and admissions practices to campus cultural groups and DEI training.
One surprising mention: standardized testing policies.
Trainor wrote that test-optional policies could be “proxies for race” to help colleges “give preference” to certain groups…
“That is true whether the proxies are used to grant preferences on an individual basis or a systematic one,” he wrote. “It would, for instance, be unlawful for an educational institution to eliminate standardized testing to achieve a desired racial balance or to increase racial diversity.”…
During the COVID-19 pandemic*, the vast majority of colleges waived test requirements for applicants. Five years later, most have retained their test-optional policies—though a year ago some selective institutions began returning to score requirements, reigniting a charged debate about the role of standardized tests in admissions.
*One of the under-appreciated and under-discussed aspects of the COVID-19 regime was that it unlocked opportunities to sneak through various social engineering schemes like the one highlighted here, that simply never went away once “normalcy” resumed — that is, until the dawn of America’s Golden Age.
The “no standardized testing” mantra is a political two-fer. First, there is the avenue for allowing unqualified minorities into higher education under the guise of equity, but also it allows teachers to skirt any responsibility for teaching material that their students are expected to remember.
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Tens of thousands of images stricken from military database in anti-DEI purge
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."
Via KSL.com (emphasis added):
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content…
The database, which was confirmed by U.S. officials and published by AP, includes more than 26,000 images that have been flagged for removal across every military branch. But the eventual total could be much higher…
In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word "gay," including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.
Several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California were marked for deletion, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the last name Gay. And a photo of Army Corps biologists was on the list, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish — including their weight, size, hatchery and gender.
If you want to make an omelet, you’re going to have to break some eggs.
The images that merit archiving can all presumably be sorted through and the meritorious ones reuploaded later.
