University of Florida Eliminates all DEI Positions Due to New State Rules

Saturday, March 02, 2024

The University of Florida has eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positions at the university, according to an administrative memo that was released Friday.

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They're changing the acronym to FEI. Fascism, Exclusion and Incompetence.

#1 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-02 10:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

So the E and I haven't changed then.

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-02 10:38 AM | Reply

Both Sides!

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-02 10:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Government control through alphabet type NGOs or agencies, or other organizations, such as DEI is always about power hungry elites wanting to take both control and your freedom while absurdly claiming being under their leftist thumb will be good for you as individuals.

We must take away and strip the power from any political organizations or ideologies that want the power to strip any of your freedoms.

#4 | Posted by Robson at 2024-03-02 10:51 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

power hungry elites

#4 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Donald Trump is a power-hungry elite.

You are his willing servant.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-03-02 10:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

Re 4

We must take away and strip the power from any political organizations or ideologies that want the power to strip any of your freedoms to demean or insult persons of color or of a different sexual orientation.

FTFY

We can't be having any of that nasty Diversity around there. It's the white way or no way!

It might force white male republicans to think about or even feel a little guilty about the things they have said about minorities.

And as you know we can't be having Republicans thinking.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-02 11:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Funny flag!

#7 | Posted by john47 at 2024-03-02 11:24 AM | Reply

Forced diversity is nasty diversity.

Hiring the right people regardless of their heritage or color or whatever and having a mix of people still should be the goal. But if it doesn't happen organically it's more detrimental than good.

#8 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-03-02 11:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Forced diversity is nasty diversity."

So you are against DEI but you don't really know what it means.

Thx

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-02 11:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Ah, the Civil War was nasty diversity?

Should have just let well enough alone, eh?

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-02 12:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Florida GQP filth still saying slavery wasn't so bad.

www.rollingstone.com

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-02 07:00 PM | Reply

The Civil War and abolition of slavery had nothing to do with "DEI".

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-03 09:40 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The Civil War and abolition of slavery was racist!
#12 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-03 12:31 PM | Reply

The Civil War and abolition of slavery had nothing to do with "DEI".

#12 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

You think that the civil war had nothing to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion?

Seriously?

What planet are you from?

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-03 12:35 PM | Reply

So you think DEI is about inciting civil wars, huh?

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-03 01:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So you think DEI is about inciting civil wars, huh?

#15 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

So even after I challenged you you didn't even bother to look it up and you still don't understand what DEI is?

Nope. I said nothing like that.

But I will say that the white man's resistance (especially Southern Man's resistance) to the concept of diversity, equity and equality, and the inclusion of the black man in society definitely led to a civil war in America.

Definitely.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-03 02:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

At the outset, were these efforts to force inclusion ever intended to be permanent?

How long can such measures exist before they become part of the problem, and not the solution.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with the complete elimination of DEI policies.

However I do believe its possible it's run its course.

#17 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-03-03 03:04 PM | Reply

However I do believe its possible it's run its course.

#17 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

So the concept of diversity equity and inclusion has "run its course"?

Right now I can't see how that could ever be a true statement America. Just because the right has insisted on misunderstanding and unfairly weaponizing DEI does not mean we don't still need it. If you think DEI is racist then we obviously need much more of it.

The current backlash toward DEI is unsurprising because pretty much all other efforts to advance social justice in the US have historically been met with the same resistance from the same people.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-03 03:38 PM | Reply

#18 Before MLK was assassinated, 70% of whites said he was moving too fast and asking for too much.

30% of Whites still agree with that.
They are MAGA Republicans.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-03 03:52 PM | Reply

Donner,

"So the concept of diversity equity and inclusion has "run its course"?
Right now I can't see how that could ever be a true statement America."

The goals of DEI still stand.

The methods being used to enforce it are creating other problems and not working, just like Separate but Equal didn't work.

Both are smoke and mirrors.

#20 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-03-03 04:12 PM | Reply

The type of DEI espoused by Robin DiAngelo and her ilk absolutely should be eliminated. But many here do not want to acknowledge that type of DEI ever existed, much less still exists.

#21 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-03 04:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Campus culture will probably improve considerably as a result of this.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-03 06:17 PM | Reply

#1 When you say "They" are changing the DEI acronym I assume you mean "they" being the dividers and political manipulators and scammers/schemers who are obsessed with hating founding Americans, and who actualy created the DEI scheme only to enrich the few.

The most powerful and least diverse Americans are those that are richest and typically get cover from cronies in the non diverse media.

#23 | Posted by Robson at 2024-03-03 06:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"The type of DEI espoused by Robin DiAngelo"

Robin DiAngelo is famous for talking about White Fragility.
White Fragility explains why some whites don't like DEI. White Fragility has nothing to do with DEI.

There's another thread where SpeakSoftly explains White Fragility is why men are becoming right-wing.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-03 06:57 PM | Reply

Government control
#4 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Is passing laws changing what universities can do.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-03 07:07 PM | Reply

Hiring the right people
#8 | POSTED BY KWRX25

They will hire qualified candidates.

They just can't all be white men.

Well. They couldn't be all white men.

Now they can be, again.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-03 07:10 PM | Reply

Campus culture will probably improve considerably as a result of this.
#22 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Not until it's all white men again.

MAGA!

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-03 07:12 PM | Reply

Campus culture will probably improve considerably as a result of this.

#22 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-03-03 06:17 PM | REPLY

Spoken by a man with White male heterosexual privilege.

#28 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-03-03 07:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Campus culture will probably improve considerably as a result of this.
#22 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Do you have any evidence students felt DEI was harming campus culture, or are you just assuming that since you think DEI is bad it must have led to a significant deterioration in conditions.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-03 07:22 PM | Reply

Jeff can you explain, factually, what dei is and what problems it has actually caused?

#30 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-03 07:37 PM | Reply

Clown,

"They will hire qualified candidates."

Back when I was teaching college classes, there was one particular test where 2 black men scored lower than most everyone else and they had the nerve to call me out in class and accuse me of grading by race.

I got pissed and said "how dare you accuse me of grading by color...you want better grades study more"...

There was a group of students who had formed a study group and figured out how to do well in my classes. I tested what I taught.

They joined the study group and their grades improved.

Personally, I think that's part of the problem with too many people who aren't doing well in school. They've been taught to think like a victim instead of figuring out how to succeed.

And democratic leaders encourage it to keep themselves relevant and controlling your life.

#31 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-03-03 07:59 PM | Reply

#31 It's easier to manipulate people who think they are a victim.

That's why Republicans insist you're a victim of everything from illegal immigrants to low flush toilets.

Everything the Democrats do harms you in some way, according to Republicans.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-03 08:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Dei" is genitive singular of "Deus", meaning "of God". For example, Genesis 1:2 Vulgate (spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas) is translated "the spirit of God moved over the waters" (Douay). "Dei" is also nominative plural, meaning "gods".

#33 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-03 08:15 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

BillJ presents a post that criticizes people who cast themselves as the victims, by presenting an example of himself being victimized.

To be conservative, one must first be a victim.

#34 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-03 08:22 PM | Reply

DEI: Based completely on past victim status

Snoofy: 'Publicans wanna be victems alla time

#35 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-03-03 08:26 PM | Reply

"Robin DiAngelo is famous for talking about White Fragility.
White Fragility explains why some whites don't like DEI. White Fragility has nothing to do with DEI."

Care to explain then why her work was featured in many DEI workshops, as well the DEI section of the freaking Smithsonian web site?

#36 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-03 09:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Apparently BJ was taught that anecdote is evidence.

And is still teaching it.

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-03 09:04 PM | Reply

SSentinel, always parroting the National Socialist line.

#38 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-03 11:44 PM | Reply

Care to explain then why her work was featured in many DEI workshops, as well the DEI section of the freaking Smithsonian web site?

#36 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

The term DEI didn't really take off until 2020, even though the concepts have been around much longer. (Think Brown v. Board of Education. Or Truman desegregating the military.) Her book "White Fragility" came out in 2018, but she's obviously talking about the concepts of what the term stands for.

The work of Freud has been featured in many workshops that he likely couldn't have foreseen.

In D'Angelo's case, it's also called writing one of the seminal and important works in a field. You form the groundwork for future authors and studies.

Not everyone thinks highly of her either, and I'm talking about the left.

And on 33, regarding dei, the Latin word, were you trying to make a point?

#39 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-03-04 12:19 AM | Reply

Care to explain then why her work was featured in many DEI workshops, as well the DEI section of the freaking Smithsonian web site?
#36 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

You know why.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-04 12:37 AM | Reply

"Robin DiAngelo is famous for talking about White Fragility.
White Fragility explains why some whites don't like DEI. White Fragility has nothing to do with DEI."..

This is false, Robin is a diversity consultant.

#41 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-03-04 12:53 AM | Reply

"Robin is a diversity consultant."

Yeah.

She can explain that when you promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Fragile Whites take it as a personal attack on their White Privilege, and call you Racist.

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-04 12:57 AM | Reply

So,we've established that work like DiAngelo's is definitely part of DEI programs, and no one here has disavowed it.

#43 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-04 08:58 AM | Reply

It's important to establish why so many whites are so fragile when it comes to racism.

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-04 09:02 AM | Reply

Go on 44... Give us your full throat, in defense of racist could nots like DiAngelo, and how it's important to include that type of bigotry in DEI programs.

#45 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-04 09:11 AM | Reply

I don't need to defend her.

You dropping her name, then cosplaying as a fragile white

Tells the story more effectively than anything I could say.

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-04 09:20 AM | Reply

You're doing a great job of illustrating my point. Well done.

#47 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-04 09:44 AM | Reply

Snoofy pretty much let you own yourself on that one.

#48 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-04 09:56 AM | Reply

it telling that #9 gets two newsworthy votes and is a retarded take on what I said.

Having a diverse workforce is a great thing, taking positive steps to ensure that we aren't defaulting to hiring those that look like us is a great thing.

Stating we will have a workforce by X date that is X% is NOT a good thing in my opinion. But sure knee jerk state that means I don't like or understand dei.

#49 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-03-04 10:36 AM | Reply

#49, of course, they have to troll and smear, because that's an inherent part of what contemporary DEI is all about. On average, it's about 1/3 trolling, 1/3 catering to "special needs" people, and 1/3 actually promoting diversity, fairness and inclusion.

#50 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-04 11:43 AM | Reply

50. Can you back up those 1/3 claims, or is that just your opinion, man?

And so what if D'Angelo's works are used related to DEI? Again, what's the point?

FWIW: D'Angelo is white. I've found that people presume otherwise.

#51 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-03-04 12:05 PM | Reply

"And so what if D'Angelo's works are used related to DEI?"

It completely undermines the argument that DEI isn't in any way what right wingers often try to portray it as.

"FWIW: D'Angelo is white. I've found that people presume otherwise."

What's your point here? Her work just reinforces the notion that DEI encourages the majority to be self-loathing namby-pambies. When she says she's racist, I believe her. It doesn't mean I have to identify with her, but her followers obviously do.

#52 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-04 12:30 PM | Reply

Stating we will have a workforce by X date that is X% is NOT a good thing in my opinion. But sure knee jerk state that means I don't like or understand dei.
#49 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Setting a goal and a target date doesn't sound like a good idea to you? Okay.
Tell us about the approaches to workplace diversity have worked better for you, than setting a goal and a timeline.
Thanks in advance!

#53 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-04 12:32 PM | Reply