A video circulating on Twitter/X right now shows employees and students at the University of Virginia explaining that nothing has really changed at the school except the words to describe various DEI programs, events, and groups.
This is something that we have seen schools do for months now. They disguise progressive programs by simply changing the words used to describe them.
At one very telling moment in the video, a young woman explains that the student body is on the left, but that the faculty is even further left.
FOX News reports:
WATCH: Staff at top university reveal scheme to continue DEI under ‘changed’ namesMultiple staffers at the University of Virginia were documented on video openly explaining their efforts to continue pushing diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the school by simply rebranding them to avoid scrutiny or a potential loss of federal funds.”We had to change the names of some of our programs and stuff, like we had Queer Brunch, we can’t call it Queer Brunch anymore, you gotta call it Cozy Brunch, so we changed the name to that, like, we had a program in the Latinx Student Center called Comida Comunidad, it’s like community and friends, and we had to change the name of that to just food and community now,” Davon Lewis, program coordinator multicultural student services, explained in a video obtained by Fox News Digital.”So like, we’re doing the same stuff, but like changing the names a little bit, so like it doesn’t bring scrutiny on the office and stuff like that.”When asked if the implementation of DEI at UVA is just a matter of changing the name to stay out of trouble, Lewis responded with a laugh, “Yes.”Asia, a student at UVA, is seen on the video explaining that there was concern about “like antisemitism,” putting air quotes on antisemitism with her fingers, and noted that the school’s president was ousted in June over DEI concerns from the Trump administration.Asia says in the video that “now all of our affinity programs are basically finding ways to, like, kind of move under the radar.””We didn’t actually get rid of our programs and stuff like that, just like renamed them.”
Watch below:
This news comes just a week after it was announced that the University of Virginia had reached a deal with the Trump administration which included the elimination of DEI programs.
Trump’s Education Department and DOJ may want to revisit that agreement.
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