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Campus DEI isn’t working, according to a new op-ed in the New York Times from two Stanford professors.
Existing programmes are “too ideological” and “exacerbate the very problems they intend to solve”, they write, citing campus tensions in the wake of 7 October. Further, proposals that Jews and Israelis should be added to the oppressed list within existing DEI frameworks “would only reinforce a flawed system”. Instead, they argue, schools need to teach students critical-thinking skills and pluralism.
The writers take pains to distance themselves from Right-wing critics of DEI, though the similarities in their arguments are hard to ignore. At one point, the article even states that universities should teach students “how to think rather than what to think”. Outrageous…
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