Curriculum and courses have been developed to brainwash students into being liberals, according to a new report.
Two-thirds of U.S. colleges require students take Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) courses to graduate, according to an April report published by Speech First, a free speech organization focused on college advocacy.
When the organization investigated 248 colleges and universities in every state and Washington D.C., they found that a large majority force all students to take courses which indoctrinate them with the ‘Neo-liberal’ establishment school-of-thought on topics such as diversity (racial issues), equity (ensuring no one achieves more than anyone else) and inclusion (allowing those not qualified for a seat at the table to have a seat at the table).
“…a significant majority (67%) of these institutions mandate DEI academic courses to satisfy general education requirements. Among the 165 establishments we identified that enforce these requirements, 98 are public institutions, and 67 are private institutions,” the report said.
Speech First’s report was the culmination of an investigation identifying courses and training that centered on an ‘anti-racist’ premise, usually including notions such as ‘whiteness’ or ‘white supremacy’. The investigation also looked at DEI statements within college’s hiring processes.
Speech First looked at what the DEI courses seek to instill in students’s political beliefs.
“The inquiry revealed that students are subjected to courses advocating far-left ideological perspectives and pushing far-left political advocacy,” the report said.
It went on to give a deeper analysis of exactly how these courses target student’s thoughts, leading to them seeing the world through the lens of social justice, and not reality that’s based on reasoning and deduction of facts or experiences.
“…DEI mandates undermine the foundational principle of meritocracy, prioritizing identity over qualifications and competence. They go further to place students into identitarian groupings based on racial, sexual, and political characteristics to create a rigid framework amongst students where they only see each other as either the ‘oppressor’ or the ‘oppressed’,” the report said.
The report also explained how DEI remains in curriculum standards at colleges in states that have officially prohibited or defunded DEI departments.
“Ultimately, our report found that even in states that have banned DEI departments at public schools, in many cases, students are still being required to take DEI courses to graduate,” the report said.
The Heritage Foundation published a report in 2021 showing that in higher education, DEI staff made up an average 3.4 positions for every 100 tenured faculty.
Speech First documented several examples of courses and content that fulfill college’s DEI requirements.
There is the course ‘Psychology of Racism’ at Marquette University which concentrates exclusively on making black people view themselves as victims, according to the Speech First report.
You also have ‘Philosophy of Race’ at the University of San Diego which has students view everything through the lens of race and social justice, the Speech First report said.
Speech First detailed ‘Queering Childhood’ at Pomona College in Claremont which covers topics from a number of DEI authors.
There’s Jules Gill-Peterson who argued for children transitioning and challenged parental consent for puberty blockers, the Speech First report said.
There’s Alison Kafer, an associate professor of feminist studies who introduced the term ‘crip children’ in her book ‘Feminist, Queer, Crip’ in which she seeks to reclaim the word ‘cripple’ to assert pride and agency in disability communities, according to the Speech First report.
Lee Edelmann, who in his book ‘No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive’ claims that heterosexual reproduction oppresses the gays, the Speech First report said.
There’s also University of Utah English professor Kathryn Bond Stockton who teaches queer theory and literature in her book ‘The Queer Child’ where she argues that children are inherently queer, Speech First said in their report.
Speech First also chronicled courses such as ‘Social and Racial Justice: Advocacy and Action’ at Boston University that teaches students how to become social justice warriors at public protests, ‘Bad Catholics’ at Loyola Marymount University is a religious class that focuses on the bipoc and latinx through a lens of queerness, ‘Body, Culture, Power’ at Princeton University that teaches that white people are inherently bad, and lastly ‘Queer Kinship: Undoing the American Family’ at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities that teaches about patriarchal and heteronormative structures and why the family is evil.
