In academic institutions, “We have a system now that’s broken,” said Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, in a Fox News interview. “On these campuses, we have an evil being taught. … It’s a virus. It’s called DEI.”
The acronym stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Owens described DEI as a “Marxist-based ideology that [believes] there is an oppressor race and an oppressed race.”
And he made sure to emphasize that the Left has deemed the oppressors as whites and Jews.
Last week, a Harvard law professor wrote a column for the school’s paper, The Harvard Crimson, expressing his strong opposition to DEI.
Randall L. Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein professor at Harvard Law School, argued that “the practice of demanding [DEI] ought to be abandoned, both at Harvard and beyond.” Kennedy added: “I am a scholar on the Left committed to struggles…
