Liberal Harvard professor calls to 'abandon' mandatory DEI statements: 'Make me wince'

A photo of Randall Kennedy over a photo of the view of a gate to Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University on July 08, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts .for the university's newspaper this week, blasted mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion statements, calling for them to be immediately abandoned.

“Playing ball entails affirming that the DEI bureaucracy is a good thing and asking no questions that challenge it, all the while making sure to use in one’s attestations the easy-to-parody DEI lingo,” Kennedy wrote. “It does not take much discernment to see, moreover, that the diversity statement regime leans heavily and tendentiously towards varieties of academic leftism and implicitly discourages candidates who harbor ideologically conservative dispositions.

“Imagine the howl of protest that would erupt if a school at Harvard asked a candidate for a faculty position to submit a statement of their orientation towards capitalism, or patriotism, or Making America Great Again with a clear expectation of allegiance?” the professor asked.Mandatory DEI statements are "ideological pledges of allegiance," as well as an overreach by universities which threatens intellectual discussion, he claims.

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