The University of South Florida’s Diversity Cult | City Journal
USF s sprawling diversity bureaucracy has turned left-wing racialism into a new orthodoxy and implemented an administrative policy of racial preferences and discrimination. It divides individuals into categories of oppressor and oppressed, presents anti-racism as the solution, and proposes racial identity development which, in practice, resembles a form of cult programming as the necessary method of atonement.
The first step in this programming is the condemnation of American society. Following the 2020 death of George Floyd, nearly every appendage of USF condemned the United States as fundamentally racist. Then-president Steven Currall published a statement denouncing the systemic racism that continues to plague our nation. The English department attacked the United States for centuries of normalized violence, structural oppression, and dehumanizing rhetorics that target Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. The School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies blasted America for its institutionalized, structural racism and white supremacy. The anthropology department assailed its own discipline for being rooted in racism. The department of sociology pronounced on the interlocking systems of oppression found throughout the institutions of our country. Literacy studies, women s and gender studies, engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and other departments released similar statements.
Then the university s DEI administrators offered the solution: racial reeducation.
This sort of thing is probably going on at a lot of smaller universities.