DEI Deathwatch Vol. XLIII: ‘Fear and Hopelessness’

Via The Guardian (emphasis added):

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors.

Of those interviewed in the survey, roughly a quarter of respondents said they applied for a job in higher education in another state since the start of 2023…

The survey received responses from approximately 4,000 faculty members across the south and included other states, such as Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky, in its findings. About 25% of the professors in Texas who responded said they have applied for teaching roles in other states in the last two years, with another 25% saying they intend to start a search.

Last year, salary was the top reason as to why educators across the south were seeking employment elsewhere. In this year’s findings, however, “broad political climate” was the top motivator…

Such is also the case for Wendy Watson, who left a role as a pre-law adviser and professor at the University of North Texas and moved to Ball State University in August this year, after 15 years of teaching there.

“The classes I taught that were most likely to eventually feel the sting of SB17 and the legislation sure to follow were Gay Rights and the Constitution and Jurisprudence,” Watson said. “You cannot teach a robust class on jurisprudence without addressing critical legal studies, critical race theory and critical gender theory. You just can’t.”…

 “We would likely see specific classes taken out of the catalog. We had already seen our School of Education rewrite course descriptions for both undergrad and grad classes (without input from the faculty who taught those classes) to remove any reference to race, gender and queer identity,” said Watson. “Everyone I spoke with felt fear, frustration, and hopelessness.”

Fear!

It’s a real Normandy Beach out there at liberal college campuses.

Make no mistake: these people love being persecuted; it’s their currency. They pounce on any chance to invent a new persecuted social class and then insert themselves into it, no matter how absurd.

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Unfortunately, pretending to be persecuted has become an increasingly difficult theatre performance to put on convincingly in the context of academic freedom, as they have enjoyed an iron grip on the educational system until very recently.

So they’re happier than pigs in slop now that they’re hamstrung by very moderate and common-sense guidelines like “please don’t inject your tranny propaganda into a Constitutional law course.”

Literal violence!

Misrepresenting Charlie Kirk’s legacy for Social Justice™ propaganda

In death, as they were in life, many of Charlie Kirk’s quotes have been taken wildly out of context by critics mining his thousands of hours of public speaking engagements for something, anything to prove that he was a Deplorable bigot.

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In particular, Kirk’s claim that the MSNBC Race Lady, among other notables like Ketanji Brown-Jackson, was a DEI hire has gotten a lot of attention.

The problem is that Joy Reid herself acknowledged that she got into Harvard solely on account of something called “affirmative action,” the popular euphemism for anti-meritocratic, anti-white racial discrimination.

Charlie Kirk said Joy Reid, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Shiela Jackson Lee, and Michelle Obama used affirmative action because they “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” so they had to “steal a white person’s slot.” pic.twitter.com/W6DgzF4r2l

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 14, 2023

"Charlie Kirk was a racist because he said that Joy Reid only got into Harvard because of affirmative action."

2023. Joy Reid: "Let me be clear, I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action." pic.twitter.com/YnH2NhlbpO

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 17, 2025

This is the same genre of gaslighting as the replacement migration controversy.

Whereas the corporate state media has derided anyone on the right discussing replacement migration as a racist “conspiracy theorist” for years, the United Nations literally wrote an entire document advocating replacement migration.