Eboo Patel at Persuasion:
The debate about DEI has shifted. It is no longer principally about the problem of demonizing straight white people. It is now about how much DEI demeans minorities.
This is the tale that Tyler Austin Harper tells in his cover story for The Atlantic, “Confessions of a Token Black Professor.” The striking thing about Harper’s essay is that nothing especially headline-worthy happens under the DEI regime at Bates College, where Harper had reached his dream of becoming a tenure-track professor. There are no high-profile public shaming incidents or shout-downs of speakers, as happened at institutions from Hamline to Stanford. It is simply the ordinary dimensions of the DEI structures that Harper found intolerably degrading: the excellent candidates who should have gotten jobs but didn’t because they were not considered ideologically pure enough by the activists in charge of the committees; the inane directives from senior administrators, such as doing a curriculum-wide audit for oppressive content, which made Harper feel like an “antiracist truffle pig”; the use of skin color as a job qualification.
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