DEI practices at U.S. schools and universities, while “diversity, equity and inclusion” may sound altruistic, almost invariably include indoctrinating students with racist and sexist ideologies, for example, blaming all whites for slavery that ended in America centuries ago.
That particular concept has resulted in the extraordinary demands by some DEI activists that whites today, who never were slave owners, pay billions of dollars in “reparations” to blacks today, who never were slaves.
That ideology also has advocated for what essentially are quotas, meaning hiring has been based on race, or sex, or orientation, rather than qualifications or abilities.
But now a federal judge says President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate those racist and sexist lessons from classrooms can’t go forward.
The recent ruling from Stephanie Gallagher, a federal judge hearing a case by the activists at National Endowment for Democracy, likely will be appealed, as judges in the entry level courts to the federal judiciary often have ruled against Trump’s plans to Make America Great Again, and have ended up being reversed.
Gallagher wrote, about two Department of Education memos telling schools to rid themselves of the discriminatory lessons, “It initiated a sea change in how the Department of Education regulates educational practices and classroom conduct, causing millions of educators to reasonably fear that their lawful, and even beneficial, speech might cause them or their schools to be punished.”
Trump’s promises to make the nation better have included removing those how-to teachings in discrimination. His plan for schools was to tell them to clean up their act, or lose federal funding.
Gallagher’s claim is that the Department of Education acted unlawfully when it threatened to withhold federal funding from institutions that continued DEI schemes.
Gallagher, curiously, also is a defendant in a separate lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against all federal judges in Maryland over an order automatically blocking the immediate deportation of migrants who are challenging their removals.
Despite her clear conflict of interest, in being sued by one of the parties in a case before her, she didn’t recuse herself.
It was the American Federation of Teachers and the American Sociological Association who sued over the crackdown on biased DEI teachings.
The focal point in the fight are two department memos telling schools to end all “race-based decision-making” or risk losing federal funding.
The AP said the Trump measures “had been on hold since April” because of various court rulings.
Gallagher’s ruling also noted she was making no finding on the policies themselves, whether they are “good or bad, prudent or foolish, fair or unfair,” but that they ran into trouble because of procedural requirements.
The Department of Education said, “judicial action enjoining or setting aside this guidance has not stopped our ability to enforce Title VI protections for students at an unprecedented level.”
The guidance had been based on the 2023 Supreme Court decision barring colleges from considering race in admissions decisions.
“Educational institutions have toxically indoctrinated students with the false premise that the United States is built upon ‘systemic and structural racism’ and advanced discriminatory policies and practices,” explained Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary of the department’s Office for Civil Rights.
The goal of the guidance had been for schools to dismantle DEI offices and programming, end race-based hiring and admissions, halt racially segregated graduation and scholarships and more.
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