Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Robert Shibley
“FIRE has spoken out many times against DEI efforts that go too far, from demanding that students agree with particular views related to hot-button issues to forcing faculty to provide DEI statements that function as thinly veiled political litmus tests if they wish to be hired or promoted. A backlash to such illiberal efforts was inevitable, but that doesn’t justify over-correcting with policies to silence one’s ideological foes. Repeating cycles of vengeance do not serve the public interest. But that’s what some of these policies are courting. If a university fears a hostile audit, a funding threat, a legislative hearing, or a governor’s public rebuke, the internal incentives are obvious.” (02/26/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/taking-black-out-black-history-month