Steve McGuire summary:

“If someone wanted to find a way to destroy American universities, they wouldn’t be able to find a better tool than D.E.I. An enormous bureaucracy that drains resources and drives up the already astronomical price of college while contributing next to nothing to the advancement of actually underprivileged students. It has a profoundly negative effect on campus life by turning it into victimhood Olympics. Through its influence on hiring it actively works to exclude people on both ideological and racial grounds, and it further tilts the already wildly imbalanced campus politics. Moreover, as this article demonstrates, by trying to infuse every aspect of teaching and research with DEl considerations it further erodes the distinction between activism and scholarship and remakes entire disciplines in its shape (and not for the better). Finally, by politicizing the university it undermines the already problematic standing of higher education among the American public. As I said, one of the most pernicious things ever to happen to American higher education.”