Not a single DEI admin in the nation will take advantage because they constitutionally oppose every word of what is essentially The Free Press' mission statement:
We are committed to upholding the principles of free speech, intellectual diversity, and the ideals that once were the bedrock of great journalism: honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence.
Those are all badges of whiteness and oppression. At least in the twisted, insane universe of DEI.
I agree. FP should make its own list of university presidents (easy enough to find) and send them subscriptions directly, with a note that subscriptions for their underlings are available upon request by the presidents and/or their underlings.
I think I should be eligible for a free DIE subscription. My wife and I have two cats here at Kitty Cat U and my wife, the president of the university, has made me the DIE administrator.
Whenever our cats catch a bird, I demand they go right back out and catch a squirrel or a rat (which we call a democrat) or some other vermin.
I vigorously pursue my DIE duties.
Does this make me eligible for a free subscription?
Eh - cats. As if teaching them free speech is going to do anything….
Now, DOGS - there’s something to do. My dog, Abbey (full name, Abbey Normal) is another case altogether. We taught her to “ speak” almost two years ago, and we have a better chance of the DEI officer of Trump University taking Bari up on her offer than this damn dog shutting up.
She IS very inclusive, though - she annoys us, our neighbors, our mailman, birds, squirrels, rodents, etc., etc. at every turn of the road.
I have a couple dogs like that. Especially the malamute. He doesn’t seem to have a mute button anywhere and if you know anything about malamutes, they “talk” more than bark. I think he understands more English than the cats do. They yap a lot too.
All that aside, I don’t know if our institutions of higher learning are really doing any higher teaching any longer. In fact it seems they’ve been busy indoctrinating and now their fruits are returning ten fold. Society is sicker than ever, violence and crime are more prevalent, the sanctity of human life has never been lower, our populace is dumber about pretty much everything and now they want to confuse even very young children about who and what they are. America was once a global leader in the sciences and we are no longer ranked in even the top ten. Diversity of thought was once accredited for fostering innovative ideas but now any step outside main stream ideology gets one silenced. We can expect only to continue on this downward trend unless there is near immediate change to this stupid and destructive mentality of DEI. It’s nothing more than Marxist philosophy that pits ppl against one another. His methods and ideas have only produced bad fruit everywhere it’s been applied.
Maybe enticing some of these ppl might help but imma guess it’s too little too late.
No need to preach to the choir. Those of us that agree with TFP should be paying to support the mission. Educating those that oppose our viewpoints is an admirable goal.
Not a single DEI admin will subscribe because they're affected by Cluster B personality disorders in which they are never wrong and it's always someone else's fault.
It could at least inform DEI crooks that not everyone likes this. They live in bubbles and think the entire nation thinks like they do. And, an essay could find its way into the hands of someone who is already becoming a little disaffected - or else understands about backlash. - Me being an optimist, LM
Dunno. I’ve known one high-level administrator in a university’s office of diversity who has always been up for considering various points of view on matters of fairness and inclusiveness, including my insistence on classical liberal principles of equal opportunity and decisions based on merit. Unfortunately, he’s retiring, but there are likely to be others out there who might take up this offer.
Crystal is "A teacher, leader, advocate, poet, and Boston University’s current vice president and associate provost for community & inclusion, Williams believes that education, art and design, and commitments to equity and justice are essential to transforming our society."
Why am I not surprised they found her at BU - soon to be renamed Henry Rogers/Ibram X. Kendi U?
"A teacher, leader, advocate and poet, Crystal Williams believes that education, art and design, and commitments to equity and justice are essential to transforming our society."
I wish people/institutions would stop trying to "transform" or "queer" society. It is really all about destruction/Marxism.
I am quoting a PITT comment because I thought it was so spot on:
"Now "queer" and "queering" refer not to homosexuality per se, but to acting in ways that subvert and dismantle the foundational norms of society, specifically with respect to biological sex, sexual identity and sexual practices. This ideology has filtered down to the public schools and the medical profession, of course, and has the blessings of the Democratic party, which benefits financially from Queer donors such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Pritzker family. Times have changed.
"Most of the children claim to be some type of queer." When your five year-old comes home from kindergarten and tells you that even though he has a penis, maybe he's a girl, you're living in the Queer Zone."
a response: "This gender-cult is evil and vicious and selfish and it does not care who it snatches or whose family it tears apart."
Then: "In fact, snatching away children and tearing apart the family is the whole point."
I long for the days when people believed that their sexual lives and preferences were best kept private. Perhaps others are more prurient, but I, for one, do not care what turns you on (or off). I do not want to know whether you like leather, rubber, animals, vegetables, or minerals. It’s really all quite tiresome. There’s nothing so boring as people desperate for attention.
I do think we will need some very public trials with very serious consequences for some of the powerful people behind policy - like Admiral Levine, Randi Weingarten, Dr. Jason Rafferty, AG Rob Bonta...
“The Nuremberg Trial” is well known: top Nazis like Göring and Hess were tried before international judges for war crimes and crimes against humanity. One outcome was the birth of international criminal law. What is less well known is that 12 subsequent trials were held at Nuremberg, all before US judges, each focusing on a particular category of evildoer, including noncombatants, like judges and business executives. The first of these Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, The Doctors Trial, saw 23 defendants (21 medical doctors) charged with murder under the guise of euthanasia, and with unethical medical experiments on human subjects. Some survivors testified, displaying their injuries. (Mengele was not a defendant. He escaped.)
All 13 trials were merely the tip of the iceberg of de-Nazifying German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of any remnants of Nazi ideology. By early 1947 two million ex-Nazis were either detained or forbidden to work any job but manual labor. The Allies felt when an entire society goes insane, then all sorts of people might share guilt. They found many ordinary German soldiers were not really guilty of a crime—and many non-soldiers were. A cartoonist was sentenced to ten years hard labor. Musicians and composers were investigated and kept from performing. A philosopher, still important and influential today, was interned and questioned for a year, then kept from ever working again. (Ask yourself: is a doctor who mutilates children the only evildoer? Could some intellectuals and artists have blood on their hands, too? The last time institutions went insane, our grandparents said oh yes.)
The medical profession has wrestled with the significance of the Doctors Trial. For instance, to observe its 50th anniversary, the British Medical Journal printed a special issue (free downloads here). The lead article “War crimes and medical science” warned that the Nazi problems were “not unique to one place or time, and could happen here” and the trial “left us with a legacy we still shrink from confronting.” It pointed to contemporary problems in American medicine and warned “there will always be imperatives that threaten the professional values we profess to hold so dear” and “the profession of medicine carries within it the seeds of its own destruction.”
Part of the pitch could be that those who are dedicated to DEI (as a meaningful way to approach today's issues) will have the opportunity (through back-and-forth in the comments section) to win converts to their position through honest open reasoned debate.
Oh, wait. That would likely scare them off rather than entice them to visit these pages. Never mind.
You won’t get many takers… DEI administrators are not… by their nature… open-minded. In fact, their very mission is to prevent an open thought provoking environment…
Please keep us updated on how this goes. I would share, but I don't have any friends working in the Ivory Tower. I guess they're all afraid of heights.
Specifically, the height of hypocrisy, the height of ignorance, the height of indolence, the height of...
I think Bari well knows the inherent contradiction in offering a subscription supporting free speech, to those whose definitional mission is to institutionally coercively suppress it. So the subsequent stories, perhaps already drafted, are the implications of their shocking failure to do so.
Not a single DEI admin in the nation will take advantage because they constitutionally oppose every word of what is essentially The Free Press' mission statement:
We are committed to upholding the principles of free speech, intellectual diversity, and the ideals that once were the bedrock of great journalism: honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence.
Those are all badges of whiteness and oppression. At least in the twisted, insane universe of DEI.
I agree. FP should make its own list of university presidents (easy enough to find) and send them subscriptions directly, with a note that subscriptions for their underlings are available upon request by the presidents and/or their underlings.
I think I should be eligible for a free DIE subscription. My wife and I have two cats here at Kitty Cat U and my wife, the president of the university, has made me the DIE administrator.
Whenever our cats catch a bird, I demand they go right back out and catch a squirrel or a rat (which we call a democrat) or some other vermin.
I vigorously pursue my DIE duties.
Does this make me eligible for a free subscription?
Eh - cats. As if teaching them free speech is going to do anything….
Now, DOGS - there’s something to do. My dog, Abbey (full name, Abbey Normal) is another case altogether. We taught her to “ speak” almost two years ago, and we have a better chance of the DEI officer of Trump University taking Bari up on her offer than this damn dog shutting up.
She IS very inclusive, though - she annoys us, our neighbors, our mailman, birds, squirrels, rodents, etc., etc. at every turn of the road.
She is eligible to go to Harvard or Yale on a full scholarship.
My Border Collie mix is smarter than most Harvard grads.
I believe that.
So then, what you are saying is... you simply assumed Abbey identifies as a "she"?
Must be- the damned dog never misses an opportunity to bark at me…
lol. Okay, I usually cancel people first and ask questions later, but your supporting comments are airtight, so you're good... for the moment... 😂
I have a couple dogs like that. Especially the malamute. He doesn’t seem to have a mute button anywhere and if you know anything about malamutes, they “talk” more than bark. I think he understands more English than the cats do. They yap a lot too.
All that aside, I don’t know if our institutions of higher learning are really doing any higher teaching any longer. In fact it seems they’ve been busy indoctrinating and now their fruits are returning ten fold. Society is sicker than ever, violence and crime are more prevalent, the sanctity of human life has never been lower, our populace is dumber about pretty much everything and now they want to confuse even very young children about who and what they are. America was once a global leader in the sciences and we are no longer ranked in even the top ten. Diversity of thought was once accredited for fostering innovative ideas but now any step outside main stream ideology gets one silenced. We can expect only to continue on this downward trend unless there is near immediate change to this stupid and destructive mentality of DEI. It’s nothing more than Marxist philosophy that pits ppl against one another. His methods and ideas have only produced bad fruit everywhere it’s been applied.
Maybe enticing some of these ppl might help but imma guess it’s too little too late.
Your reject of cats reeks of felinism, and you should shamed and doxxed for it.
I must say i should not expect anything else from somebody so blatantly supporting the fascist canine agenda, you biggot !!!
I hadn't thought of it in that way. You are spot on.
CAT POWER!!!!
😂😂it does, even if it’s just for this post.
It is my opinion your wife should have broadened the field of candidates available for the position Lonesome Polecat. But, then, what do I know!
I'm sorry to rain on your parade Lonesome...
But because my two boys who are both "tuxedo "cats ,align themselves with Barak Obama who as we all know is black/white
So as you can see that DEI runs in the family
A little correction for you. It is really DIE not DEI.
What does DIE stand for?
Division, Inequality and Exclusion.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. The rearranged initials are much more apt.
Dysfunction, Exaggeration, and Idiocy
Dystopia, Extremism, and Irrationality
Discrimination, Indoctrination, Exclusion
Just have it show up in their inboxes.
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Better yet, give subscriptions to those victimized by DEI ghouls. At least you have a chance to get your message to somebody ready to hear it.
No need to preach to the choir. Those of us that agree with TFP should be paying to support the mission. Educating those that oppose our viewpoints is an admirable goal.
Not a single DEI admin will subscribe because they're affected by Cluster B personality disorders in which they are never wrong and it's always someone else's fault.
So you don't think she should even give it a try? Pessimism abounds
I agree. We are talking about jobs here, lucrative and, with DEI training being mandatory in the corporate world, the easiest job to carry.
I believe that this is a naive fallacy on FP part to attempt to convince DEI crooks to reconsider their positions.
It could at least inform DEI crooks that not everyone likes this. They live in bubbles and think the entire nation thinks like they do. And, an essay could find its way into the hands of someone who is already becoming a little disaffected - or else understands about backlash. - Me being an optimist, LM
Dunno. I’ve known one high-level administrator in a university’s office of diversity who has always been up for considering various points of view on matters of fairness and inclusiveness, including my insistence on classical liberal principles of equal opportunity and decisions based on merit. Unfortunately, he’s retiring, but there are likely to be others out there who might take up this offer.
And don't forget "Colonialism" That one's really super-duper important!
Unfortunately, same is true within corporate America
DEI structures.
I see what you mean. I read the mission statement with the mindset of a DEI admin and the only word that wasn't offensive was "the."
👍🔥❤️
I love this but will be very curious about the uptake.
I nominate Crystal Williams, President of RISD which is now RISDIE: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-appoint-a-commissar
Crystal is "A teacher, leader, advocate, poet, and Boston University’s current vice president and associate provost for community & inclusion, Williams believes that education, art and design, and commitments to equity and justice are essential to transforming our society."
Why am I not surprised they found her at BU - soon to be renamed Henry Rogers/Ibram X. Kendi U?
"A teacher, leader, advocate and poet, Crystal Williams believes that education, art and design, and commitments to equity and justice are essential to transforming our society."
I wish people/institutions would stop trying to "transform" or "queer" society. It is really all about destruction/Marxism.
I am quoting a PITT comment because I thought it was so spot on:
"Now "queer" and "queering" refer not to homosexuality per se, but to acting in ways that subvert and dismantle the foundational norms of society, specifically with respect to biological sex, sexual identity and sexual practices. This ideology has filtered down to the public schools and the medical profession, of course, and has the blessings of the Democratic party, which benefits financially from Queer donors such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Pritzker family. Times have changed.
"Most of the children claim to be some type of queer." When your five year-old comes home from kindergarten and tells you that even though he has a penis, maybe he's a girl, you're living in the Queer Zone."
a response: "This gender-cult is evil and vicious and selfish and it does not care who it snatches or whose family it tears apart."
Then: "In fact, snatching away children and tearing apart the family is the whole point."
And, that is how you destroy society.
I long for the days when people believed that their sexual lives and preferences were best kept private. Perhaps others are more prurient, but I, for one, do not care what turns you on (or off). I do not want to know whether you like leather, rubber, animals, vegetables, or minerals. It’s really all quite tiresome. There’s nothing so boring as people desperate for attention.
I agree.
Get the rope.
I do think we will need some very public trials with very serious consequences for some of the powerful people behind policy - like Admiral Levine, Randi Weingarten, Dr. Jason Rafferty, AG Rob Bonta...
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/10/Ayala-v-AAP-Complaint_stamped.pdf
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-american-academy-of-pediatrics-named-in-bombshell-detransitioner-lawsuit
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
We probably need to start studying the Nuremberg Trials, including the Nuremberg Doctor's Trials, as our society has gone insane:
"The absence of collective support in a society that has lost its collective mind heightens my alienation."
https://pitt.substack.com/p/layers-of-alienation
“The Nuremberg Trial” is well known: top Nazis like Göring and Hess were tried before international judges for war crimes and crimes against humanity. One outcome was the birth of international criminal law. What is less well known is that 12 subsequent trials were held at Nuremberg, all before US judges, each focusing on a particular category of evildoer, including noncombatants, like judges and business executives. The first of these Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, The Doctors Trial, saw 23 defendants (21 medical doctors) charged with murder under the guise of euthanasia, and with unethical medical experiments on human subjects. Some survivors testified, displaying their injuries. (Mengele was not a defendant. He escaped.)
All 13 trials were merely the tip of the iceberg of de-Nazifying German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of any remnants of Nazi ideology. By early 1947 two million ex-Nazis were either detained or forbidden to work any job but manual labor. The Allies felt when an entire society goes insane, then all sorts of people might share guilt. They found many ordinary German soldiers were not really guilty of a crime—and many non-soldiers were. A cartoonist was sentenced to ten years hard labor. Musicians and composers were investigated and kept from performing. A philosopher, still important and influential today, was interned and questioned for a year, then kept from ever working again. (Ask yourself: is a doctor who mutilates children the only evildoer? Could some intellectuals and artists have blood on their hands, too? The last time institutions went insane, our grandparents said oh yes.)
The medical profession has wrestled with the significance of the Doctors Trial. For instance, to observe its 50th anniversary, the British Medical Journal printed a special issue (free downloads here). The lead article “War crimes and medical science” warned that the Nazi problems were “not unique to one place or time, and could happen here” and the trial “left us with a legacy we still shrink from confronting.” It pointed to contemporary problems in American medicine and warned “there will always be imperatives that threaten the professional values we profess to hold so dear” and “the profession of medicine carries within it the seeds of its own destruction.”
https://pitt.substack.com/p/echoes-of-eugenics-what-the-doctors
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-doctors-trial-the-medical-case-of-the-subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings?series=18
Immediately these people are disgusting!
My exact thought only I want to see how many take up the offer 🤣
I hope this is successful. Keep us posted on your results!
My hope exactly….but the then again as Yogi Berra once quipped: “If the fans don’t want to come to watch us play, how you gonna stop ‘em?”
Brilliant! Is there a way to anonymously suggest or gift a subscription to your company's DEI leadership?
You can lead a horse to water...
Or maybe more apt for the DEI group:
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
Dorothy Parker! My Algonquin Round Table favorite.
Part of the pitch could be that those who are dedicated to DEI (as a meaningful way to approach today's issues) will have the opportunity (through back-and-forth in the comments section) to win converts to their position through honest open reasoned debate.
Oh, wait. That would likely scare them off rather than entice them to visit these pages. Never mind.
I hope there are many responses...great offer Bari, thank you.
You won’t get many takers… DEI administrators are not… by their nature… open-minded. In fact, their very mission is to prevent an open thought provoking environment…
Would love to know how many take you up on this.
Great idea; but are DEI administrators' minds open to contrary viewpoints?
The Free Press articles do argue against these folks having jobs, after all.
Bravo Bari Weiss. Another step forward to end the DEI madness.
Please keep us updated on how this goes. I would share, but I don't have any friends working in the Ivory Tower. I guess they're all afraid of heights.
Specifically, the height of hypocrisy, the height of ignorance, the height of indolence, the height of...
Well said, Jon!
Why do I feel like none of them will take the bait LOL 😂
Bari you’re the best! I would also add any elected members to local school boards because it’s starting in elementary school.
I think Bari well knows the inherent contradiction in offering a subscription supporting free speech, to those whose definitional mission is to institutionally coercively suppress it. So the subsequent stories, perhaps already drafted, are the implications of their shocking failure to do so.
And, it did make me laugh.
Another one of your great ideas!