Attitude is More Important than Race or Social Class

Political science professor Dr. Carol Swain is one of the academics whom Claudine Gay, president of Harvard, plagiarized. Swain has called for Gay’s firing and a return to sanity by Harvard University. Here, she explains how the insanity has spread across higher education — with a philosophy labeled DEI.

A few months ago, I was invited to apply for a visiting professorship at a major university out west. As part of the application, I had to submit a mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statement.

It was difficult to write because I believe that all DEI programs should be abolished and that we can achieve diversity without discrimination. As I argued in my co-authored book, “The Adversity of Diversity,” DEI programs are divisive, and many, if not all, of the programs violate our civil rights laws, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Therefore, I argued that diversity programs should share the same fate as race-based college admissions, which the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional last June.

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Although I did not get the visiting teaching position, hopefully, I left the selection committee with a perspective worth pondering.

Dr. Carol M. Swain, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture, is the author of “The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court’s Decision to Remove Race from College Admissions Criteria Will Doom Diversity Programs” (co-authored with Mike Towle).