The administration’s recently-announced investigation into Princeton University shouldn’t stop at trolling. President Trump would be wise to use this investigation as an opening salvo in a much wider attack on America’s corrupt, dishonest university establishment.
On Thursday, the Department of Education notified Princeton University that it has opened an investigation into whether the school is practicing racial discrimination in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Title VI states that “no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
The investigation was prompted by an open letter Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber published early this month, a dramatic mea culpa reciting Princeton’s supposed moral failures.
“Racism and the damage it does to people of color…persist at Princeton as in our society, sometimes by conscious intention,” Eisgruber wrote. “Racist assumptions from the past also remain embedded in structures of the University itself.”
Eisgruber suggested the school could fix the problem with a new diverse hiring initiative, and also by opening an extension school for non-traditional students, like those already in existence at Harvard, Columbia, and other Ivy League schools. In other words, conveniently, the best fix for Princeton’s “racism” is to open a new school that can extract tuition dollars from even more people!
Eisgruber’s letter was, of course, meant to be fake. A bland admission of sin by the university, followed by no serious changes, except, of course, spending some of the university’s vast endowment to hire new faculty based on skin color, with the cost offset by enrolling even more students at high cost. It was a ritualistic paean to Black Lives Matter’s moral totalitarianism, of the sort we have already seen from almost every university, non-profit, corporation, and government agency in the past four months.
But the Trump administration, brilliantly, decided to take Princeton at its word. If Princeton is an openly-racist institution, they asked, why is it getting millions of taxpayer dollars ever year?
https://www.revolver.news/2020/09/trump-princeton-investigation-can-dismantle-anti-white-academia/