Witness Tells Congress DEI Departments aren’t Able to Handle Anti-Semitism on Campus
“acknowledged that DEI departments have struggled with responding to the needs of Jewish students”
This is absolutely obvious to anyone who has been paying attention for the last six weeks.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Witness tells Congress DEI departments aren’t equipped to combat antisemitism
A Democrat -invited witness to a congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses told lawmakers that diversity, equity, and inclusion departments on college campuses weren’t set up to help white students.
Stacy Burdett, an independent consultant in antisemitism prevention and response, was one of four witnesses who testified at a Tuesday hearing of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses.
In response to a question from Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC), Burdett said she doesn’t “know a single Jewish person who isn’t very scared right now” and noted that Jewish organizations and people are reliant on the existing federal civil rights infrastructure to protect their rights. But she acknowledged that DEI departments have struggled with responding to the needs of Jewish students.
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion work maybe wasn’t set up to anticipate a group of mostly white people scared of hate crimes,” Burdett said. “But it can be enhanced, and the people that I work with have adapted and are protecting Jews now.”
Republican lawmakers and the three other witnesses repeatedly identified DEI departments as generally anti-Israel and staffed by people who have not helped Jewish students amid a rise of antisemitic activity on college campuses.
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“… DEI departments have struggled with responding to the needs of Jewish students …”
… who they hate.
Makes complete sense now.
DEI departments were erected to oppress whites, straights, and males.
You want them to protect whites? They wouldn’t even know how.
I think the problem is more generally “student affairs specialists” who are hired based upon having a Masters in Higher Education Administration from second-rate Schools of Education. These people have been taught a formulaic “check the box” approach to their jobs. So, it is unfair to accuse them of being incapable of having an approach to addressing the current problems confronting Jewish students because:
a) they are incapable of having an original thought.
b) they are trained to understand the world only in terms of “oppressed” and “oppressor”
c) their job description is to further social justice, when they have no idea of what “justice” or fairness means.
These DEI departments helped cause the problems.