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56 sats \ 21 replies \ @cristaiji 24 Jul \ on: What Does it Mean? Another University DEI Office Shuts Down news
The whole DEI thing is so strange. To me it’s a subversion of the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. Or even an inversion. And Woke seems more like a cult or psy op.
To me woke was, and will always be, a warning from one Black to another.
What you call woke, is a white over-reaction to 2020. People forget, or don't recognize that Blacks are only about 14 percent of the population. What they want only carried weight when others join. But as in most things popular in America, when the popular majority takes hold of something from Black people, it gets appropriated and morphed.
None of this is strange at all. It is the U.S. repeating historic patterns, but in an information age.
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Dead right. I will add that around 2020 many white progressives started adopting the term and using it to describe themselves. Then white conservatives started using it as term of derision to describe people that hold many progressive positions, mostly cultural stuff.
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When I was in school, in the 2000, were there any DEI offices?
I dont seem to recall...
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Depends on where you went to school. Also, not much reason for non-monorities to to be aware. If your school didn't have an office, the Title IX and VII compliance officers handled this back then. Although some schools led by creating diversity roles in admissions, recruiting etc. I know a guy who held positions at Stanford and Cal and I know Ivy schools had positions in the early 2000s. It spread across the country slowly, as progressive things do, until the explosion after 2020 (George Floyd). Now backlash is swinging the pendulum, at least in name, back in the other direction.
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I see.
I seem to remember an office for minorities, but I cant remember what it was called.
It wasnt the DEI.
Swinging the pendulum, or settling it down?
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The DEI acronym, and the terms evolved over time. At first just Minority or even Black if you go way back. The Diversity. But that was seen as just black and like affirmative action, so equity was added, as was inclusion later. At the University of Tennessee, due to politics they dropped the term equity and changed it to engagement (Look for this term in many of the name changes, also access).
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Interesting.
I think we had an office of foreign affairs at my school.
They covered the DEI stuff, I believe.
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They handle issues for international students. Similar work, but obviously more specialized
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You might be right.
Im trying to think if there was one for minorities?
Fafsa?
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LOL, that's the federal financial aid form. Just Google your university and use years in search terms or look for archived pages. All universities put everything online in the early 2000s, so you can find it. I'm guessing your school had multiple offices unless it was a private or smaller school.
It’s a different term for affirmative action which was unpopular.
Affirmative action to diversity to DEI after George Floyd
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