California: at university, professors who claim “not to be racist” are in “denial”

A new revolution in the laboratory of multiculturalism. In accordance with the new regulation published by the chancellery, the 54,000 professors of Californian “community colleges” must integrate an “anti-racist” perspective into their classes, reports Le Monde. These university establishments, numbering 116 in California, welcome just under two million students.

Among the new rules and recommendations regarding “diversity, equality and inclusion” (DEI), professors must notably “recognize” that “cultural and social identities are diverse, fluid and intersectional”. These conceptions are largely “politicized”, react the many detractors, at a time when the United States is torn apart over Wokism and its place in schools.

According to the regulations, professors are encouraged to develop “a knowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic and other minority groups experience.” In doing so, they will understand the principles that govern the “creation of structures of oppression and marginalization.”

The glossary, which accompanies the new regulations, also believes that all teachers must be aware of their own racism. Thus, teachers who declare “not to be racist” would be in “denial”, estimates the glossary. The functioning of “merit” education is for its part referred to “white privilege”. Merit is said to be “rooted in the ideology of whiteness” and supports “structural inequalities based on race.”

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But in California, the true cradle of multiculturalism, these theses do not, in themselves, disturb the major institutions. More than the ideology that these documents develop, it is the concrete consequences that they could have that worry professors. The regulation aims to “integrate DEIA skills and criteria into the employee evaluation and tenure review processes,” underlines the California “colleges community” website. The tenure of professors will therefore partly depend on their adherence to these theses.

Teachers will therefore have to provide proof of their “cultural competence, self-reflection and personal progress”, our colleagues from Le Monde also report. Six professors, supported by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (an association which fights for individual rights), decided to file a complaint. According to them, this regulation does not respect the first amendment of the American Constitution on freedom of expression. “The regulations explicitly require that professors swear allegiance to contested ideological points of view,” insists the association, which intends to see the legal process through to the end.