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We Normals have used the expression "political correctness" as a pejorative, but even we didn't grasp the full extent of it.  "A DEI Director Ousted for Questioning DEI?" Is Stalin a Bolshevik?

The faculty director for a California college’s Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education says she’s being terminated after she questioned antiracist “orthodoxy,” objected to the college’s land acknowledgments for an Indigenous tribe, tried to bring a “Jewish inclusion” event to campus, declined to join a “socialist network,” refused to use the gender-neutral terms “Latinx” and “Filipinx,” inquired why the word “Black” was capitalized but not “white,” and allegedly disrespected a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Tabia Lee also wrote, in a narrative explaining her situation, that “I no longer participate in gender pronouns because I find that the same toxic ideologies around race ideologies are now being advanced under gender ideologies; I also find that the constant obsession with pronouns and declaration of pronouns causes deep discomfort for individuals who identify as gender fluid or who struggle with gender dysphoria.”

That's interesting. She's not wrong, those -x suffixes are an attempt to inject some kind of Wokebonics into two languages based on Spanish, with all manner of gendered nouns and endings, and it could well be that those pronoun declarations on one hand affirm the people who are confident in their dysphoria, but on the other might push people who are still questioning their "identity" to disclose something they're not yet comfortable disclosing.

It gets better.  "[Tabia] Lee [shown in the article as a Black person with curly purple hair who is wearing pink lipstick] is Black. She said an employee in her office accused her of 'white speaking,' 'whitesplaining' and supporting white supremacy."

Didn't you know, dear reader, that the Diversity Office exists to provide Correct Messaging?

“In all of the teacher education things I’ve done and been exposed to in more recent years, there are lots of ideologies being pushed—lots of time a single one, but no one names what it is,” Lee told Inside Higher Ed.

“I was told that [I] was supposed to only advance what at that time I was calling a third-wave antiracism ideology,” Lee said.

Whatever that means. The pattern, though, is familiar.  Women who do not adhere to whatever the current wave of feminist ideology dictates are somehow not women; blacks who do not adhere to whatever the current wave of militancy calls for (or who don't vote for Dementia Joe) are somehow not black; and men of whatever ethnicity don't go along with the sissy aesthetics of the Diversity Weenies are toxic.

Our universities are being run by terminally stupid people.

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