@mark_bauerlein As well as the silence of many conservatives.

@mark_bauerlein I’ve been teaching at @OleMiss for 2 decades, as you know, and given the unique burden of our institutional history, we’ve done OK by DEI. Double consciousness for me on this one, with audible protest, for the past 3 yrs against intersectional overreach.

@mark_bauerlein I remember the very beginnings of it when I read "The Closing of the American Mind" in the early 90s. (Published 1987, written by Allan Bloom). I had just returned from Europe as a US Army Captain who had gone from patrolling the Iron Curtain to watching the Berlin Wall come down

@mark_bauerlein It started with administrative usurpations that made most of the faculty comfortable with their priors. Now the diversity deanlets have the long-term contracts, and the faculty is increasingly cheap and contingent labor.

@mark_bauerlein Yes now do COVID please

@mark_bauerlein @realchrisrufo Better late than never. To defeat the DEI cancer, we need more and more people to speak out, whether they have been in the fight for a long time or are recent converts.

@mark_bauerlein @realchrisrufo Better none than never

@mark_bauerlein @SwipeWright Better late than never. It’s also a sign that the DEI bureaucracy is weakening.

@mark_bauerlein @realchrisrufo I somewhat agree with this. Academics ought to not be showered with praise for taking so long to wake up but also, better late than never. People who truly repent should be allowed a bridge.

@mark_bauerlein That extends beyond academia to include people who only saw the light when it was shining in their eyes. This was always a horrible policy. You can't have a cutesy name for discrimination and pretend that it's not discrimination.

@mark_bauerlein @JDHaltigan > largely because of the silence of so many liberals who knew better all along. True dat!

@mark_bauerlein Agree 100%. I'm a black doctor against diversity hiring and have said so for the past 10 years. I took hell for it. Amazing how quickly usually-white liberals turn on black people when the black people say they dont need white people's help.

@mark_bauerlein That's right. Anyone who is only now recognizing that this is a problem has effectively been part of the problem, whether as an active participant or as someone who stubbornly ignored reality.