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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/higher_education_dei_and_cargo_cultism.html

"This week on X Mr. Kuran, a Duke University economist, writes:

Preference falsification has been central to the trajectory of DEI. People who abhor DEI principles and methods came to favor these publicly through a preference cascade. Every instance of preference falsification induced others to pretend they consider DEI just, efficient, beneficial to marginalized groups, etc. In time, a false consensus effectively displaced the search for truth as the university’s core mission, replacing it with DEI.

Most professors watched in concealed horror the transfer of enormous powers from themselves to rapidly growing DEI bureaucracies. In countless contexts, they endorsed policies they considered harmful, participated in the defamation of scholars they admired, and sheepishly submitted to DEI training – all to be left alone, to avoid being called racist, to advance their careers…

The shock that unleashed the ongoing cascade in reverse was the Hamas massacres of October 7. The chain of events that they triggered in the U.S. anti-Jewish demonstrations, the Congressional hearings, the plagiarism revelations brought to the surface outrage that had been building up quietly for years…

The process is by no means over. As preference falsification on DEI continues to diminish, more scholars and administrators will find in themselves the courage to stand up for values that they truly believe in. Though the DEI complex will fight back, it won’t be easy to quash the honest discourse finally under way…

Mr. Kuran adds:

For years, DEI advocates spoke from high moral ground. Only the deranged could be against inclusion. Diversity (as defined by DEI experts) was self-evidently beneficial. Since October 7, the moral high ground has shifted. DEI has been exposed as a sham."