U. Wisconsin DEI Staffer Files Lawsuit Alleging School Discriminated Against Her for Being White
“Allegations like Hoffman’s and other concerns about DEI efforts are prompting action from state lawmakers.”
Is this really so difficult to believe? Isn’t this sort of what DEI policies are unofficially supposed to do in practice?
The College Fix reports:
DEI staffer alleges U. Wisconsin discriminated against her for being white: lawsuit
University of Wisconsin leaders are accused of discriminating against a white DEI staffer in a new lawsuit as leading state lawmakers call for greater scrutiny of diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Rochelle Hoffman, a former assistant director of the Multicultural Student Services at the UW-Eau Claire campus, alleged administrators discriminated against her because she is white and later retaliated against her when she complained about harassment, according to the lawsuit, filed Dec. 14.
Hoffman, in a May email to Wisconsin Sen. Patrick Testin, said the public university has become a “hostile environment,” and there are “blatant actions of racial discrimination against white folks” like herself.
“On a regular basis there are great educators that are told they shouldn’t occupy multicultural space, to check their white privilege, passed over for jobs for an outside candidate of color, and reminded they are ‘inherently racist’ because they are white,” she wrote.
Michael Knuth, director of communications for UW-Eau Claire, told The College Fix via email the university “will not offer a statement or comment on the lawsuit in question” because of the pending litigation.
“UW-Eau Claire does not discriminate based on race in any employment decisions,” Knuth told The Fix.
Allegations like Hoffman’s and other concerns about DEI efforts are prompting action from state lawmakers.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel late last month that university DEI programs are “cancerous.” He said people should be chosen for roles “based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”
The assemblyman’s office did not respond to several requests for comment from The Fix last week about university DEI programs and Hoffman’s case.
Vos told the Sentinel he wants the government to conduct a comprehensive audit of diversity programs in state agencies and eventually “eliminate the DEI process” in university hiring.
Hoffman alleges her employment experience “dragged out over 10 months and irrevocably damaged [her] career.”
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DEI is massive legal liability for employers.
I’m not sure what she expected–she went to work in a dept that is based upon the premise that whites are inherently racist and evil–did she expect them to treat her differently?
I’m enjoying the left eating the left.
Ms. Hoffman will win and she will have an interesting career as a professional witness for other DEI lawsuits.
This is how DEI and CRT will be stopped.
But it will be a long and painful process. Riley Gaines, Chloe the ex-trans kid, the vax damage doctors… all of them mere reeds in a stream still flowing strongly the wrong way.