Column from AIM’s Adam Guillette featured in Dallas Express
March 4, 2024
Opinion: To Truly Abolish DEI in Texas, Educators Must Be Held Accountable
Across the country, well-intentioned legislators are introducing and advocating for bills that prohibit Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs from operating at public universities in their states. More than two dozen bills to ban DEI and similar programs in higher education have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, and at least nine states have adopted this legislation.
The fight against DEI has become much more urgent in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, which led to a dramatic spike in antisemitic activity at American universities. As a result, DEI has been exposed as a radical and dangerous ideology that fosters hate, antisemitism, and divisiveness. Legislators are taking action to root out this cancer from our public institutions and ensure that students are not radicalized under the guise of diversity and inclusion.
On the front lines of the war against DEI, Accuracy in Media investigators went undercover in Texas – where a DEI ban officially went into effect January 1 – to determine whether it was the state’s public universities were following the law. What we found should gravely concern parents and students alike, as well as citizens everywhere.
As part of our investigation, Accuracy in Media visited two dozen public universities across the state. We were encouraged to find that some universities are following the law, but as we suspected, many officials confirmed they simply renamed and rebranded their DEI offices and initiatives to continue operating them. We quickly learned that radical teachers and administrators will do anything in their power to circumvent the law.