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The University of Michigan's DEI Experiment Implodes: Lessons in Wokeness Gone Wrong

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Yesterday, the New York Times ran a long-form, magazine-style report, 
explicitly labeled as “investigative,” headlined “The University of 
Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong?” You might want to 
read this one. (I don’t often suggest reading NYT articles, either.)

Apart from Matt Walsh’s movie (“Am I Racist?”), nothing this year has 
more evidenced the promising advances in the conservative counter-
revolution than this article springing from one of the wellsprings of 
DEI, which, as it turns out, is not, after all, Ponce De Leon’s 
fountain of eternal academic youth.

DEI is prematurely aging. It isn’t aging well.

The article described how no university in America embraced DEI as 
tightly and passionately as did the University of Michigan. In 2016, 
after Trump’s election, every single MichU department, hundreds and 
hundreds of them, were ordered to develop and staff comprehensive DEI 
radicalization plans.

Even the university’s plant nursery (the “Arboretum”) delivered a 37-
page buzzword-packed diversity plan, born out of wedlock, which vowed 
to adopt “a polycentric paradigm, decentering singular ways of knowing 
and cocreating meaning through a variety of epistemic frames, including 
dominant scientific and horticultural modalities, Two-Eyed Seeing, 
Kinomaage and other cocreated power realignments.”

They are deadly serious, but that right there is a joke. I defy you to 
explain what that means in simple English. (Two-Eyed Seeing? Apart from 
BB gun accident victims and the mythical Cyclops, is there any other 
kind of seeing?) I also defy you to justify how a plant nursery could 
be so racist it had to be “fixed” in the first place.

The Times’ investigative journalist interviewed numberless faculty 
members, mostly unlucky teachers who the institutional DEI machine had 
masticated at one point or another. A common theme developed. The 
original architects and power brokers of MichU’s DEI industry refused 
to talk to the Times’ reporter. They sensed it was too dangerous.

A second theme bubbled up: white women were the worst. A “cartoon 
professor” was investigated by the University’s DEI police after 
students reported her for showing them a ‘racist’ cartoon (a 1960s 
political cartoon about Maoist repression). She told the Times she’d 
been reported by a group of female white students. “They want to do 
something — be a part of the cause,” the professor explained.

Another professor remarked that creating the DEI tipline and policing 
process was like handing tasers to a gang of six-year-old children. At 
times, the article swerved — almost certainly intentionally — toward 
Matt Walsh-levels of self-parody. For example:

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As the article wrapped up, Michigan’s DEI administrators were fully 
exposed as clueless nitwits. The reporter quoted them defending the 
school’s horrible racial performance statistics, like dropping black 
enrollment and student surveys showing higher rates of racial angst and 
animus on campus. According to the DEI Administrators, these failing 
numbers show Michigan’s DEI programs are actually working because, 
paradoxically, when you “fix” racism it “stirs up anger and 
resentment.”

We always thought that racism was anger and resentment.

In sum, the Times’ story — again, well worth reading — conveyed a 
pervasive sense of dilapidation, as though the entire edifice of DEI is 
rotting from the inside, paint peeling off the walls, doors hanging 
from the hinges. Let us never forget that DEI was still under 
construction until the pandemic exposed the reprehensible ideology to 
appalled parents.

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