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University of North Carolina Bans ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ Statements in Anti-Woke Backlash

by Will Jones
24 February 2023 10:50 PM

The University of North Carolina (UNC) moved against encroaching woke culture and voted to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements and politically preferential hiring. Fox News has more.

UNC voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech from admission, hiring, promotion and tenure at its Board of Governors meeting Thursday. 

The board stated the university “shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement,” according to the resolution. An employee or applicant also can’t “be solicited or required to describe his or her actions in support of, or in opposition to, such beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles.”

“Practices prohibited here include but are not limited to solicitations or requirements for statements of commitment to particular views on matters of contemporary political debate or social action contained on applications or qualifications for admission or employment included as criteria for analysis of an employee’s career progression.”

Kenny Xu, President of Color Us United, which advocates for a race blind society told Fox News Digital that his organisation has been leading a campaign to remove DEI from medical education practice, but he believes the move by UNC will have implications for higher education across the country. 

“We believe in a race blind, meritocratic society with high standards and that’s what has traditionally produced excellence in the United States,” Xu told Fox News Digital. “When we saw wokeness and DEI infiltrating the medical profession, that’s when we became concerned because medicine is the one place where everybody knows, liberals, conservatives, independents, that you need the most qualified doctor to get the best outcome.”

“When diversity, equity and inclusion says ‘No, you need doctors of a certain race’ or ‘No, we need to be teaching things from the lens of social justice rather than the biological practice of medicine,’ that’s when we got concerned,” he added.

UNC showing the way. This really needs to be put into legislation though. In the U.K., an amendment to the Equality Act should do the trick.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Anti-RacistNorth CarolinaRacismUnited StatesUniversityWoke Gobbledegookwokery

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