The state legislature must tame racialist ideology at its flagship campus.
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TheUniversityofKentuckyisintrouble.Thoughaconservativestatelegislaturehasbeeninpowerformorethanadecade,universityadministratorshavecreatedasprawlingDEIbureaucracythatencouragesracialdiscriminationinhiringandscholarships,attemptsto control students’“unconsciousthoughtsandbehaviors”throughmandatorydiversitytraining,andevenrequiresnewbuildingprojectstoallocateupto $1milliontowardpublicartwork that pushesleft-wingideology.
IhaveobtainedatroveofdocumentsthatrevealstheUniversityofKentucky’sdecades-longcommitmenttocriticalracetheory—thedoctrinethattheUnitedStatesisasystemicallyracistnationindireneedof“antiracist”discriminationinfavorofpreferredminoritygroups—andleft-wingracialism.
Theideologicaltakeoveroftheuniversitybeganin2003,withanew strategic planthatcommittedUKtobuilding“adiverseworkforceandlearningcommunity”andlaidouta“first-everdiversitygoal.”Theseareeuphemisms.Farfromthetraditionalac
