Cal Poly Targeted by Trump’s Civil Rights Office Alleging White, Asian Discrimination
Faculty member Loren Cannon, a union representative with CFA, is seen here at a Student For Democratic Society rally at Cal Poly, January 27 2025 reacting to earlier Executive Orders by the Trump Administration. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
The Trump Administration’s nation-wide effort to reform higher education by cutting federal funding for institutions with DEI policies is in progress. This week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations into 45 universities under Title VI, focused on the schools’ “civil rights obligations to end the use of racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities,” according to a March 14 press release by the Department.
According to the press release, Cal Poly Humboldt’s graduate program is among three California universities-UC Berkeley and Cal State San Bernardino are the other two–which have landed on the wrong side of the Trump Administration’s overhaul of higher learning institutions – all of which it claims have discriminated against students on the basis of “race, color, and national origin”.
These investigations cite use of any Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies and programs as problematic. According to the “Dear Colleague Letter” referenced in the press release, DEI efforts are misguided and harmful to college campuses. The press release compares the policies to racial segregation and warned that DEI programs are reminiscent of America’s past mistakes, stating, “In a shameful echo of a darker period in this country’s history, many American schools and universities even encourage segregation by race at graduation ceremonies and in dormitories and other facilities.”
As Cal Poly Humboldt takes stock of the latest development from the feds, the University has not had time to respond directly to the press release. Instead, Cal Poly Humboldt has offered this statement from the California State University Chancellor’s Office.
The CSU has recently learned of the investigations and will be reviewing and seeking to understand the nature of the claim and will cooperate with the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights in any investigation. The CSU continues to comply with longstanding applicable federal and state laws and CSU policies and does not discriminate or provide preferences on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.
CSU remains committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable learning environment that is open to all. CSU respects the diverse opinions and viewpoints of our students, staff and faculty.
Alice Finen, a local teacher and alumni of HSU who was a vocal advocate of pro-Palestine student protests on campus (which have been cited as “antisemitic” according to a complaint on behalf of “Student A” submitted against CPH by the Brandeis Center recently) Finen told us, “I do not believe that Humboldt discriminates against white or Jewish students by prioritizing minority groups through DEI. I believe and know that DEI makes CPH stronger, safer and better for everyone. The more diverse population we have on campus the more opportunities we are all provided.”
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights press release asserts that the 45 schools have discriminated against prospective or current students by participating in an educational DEI program. Specifically looking at one graduate studies program in particular, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) says “by partnering with “The Ph.D. Project,” an organization that purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants,” these colleges are infringing on the rights of students. The Ph.D. Project, as described on its website, “encourages and supports historically underrepresented candidates on their journey to acquiring a PhD” via “conferences, mentoring, and networking.”
The “Dear Colleagues letter” reads, “American educational institutions have discriminated against students on the basis of race, including white and Asian students, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds and low-income families. These institutions’ embrace of pervasive and repugnant race-based preferences and other forms of racial discrimination have emanated throughout every facet of academia.”
In the press release, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated, “[This] announcement expands our efforts to ensure universities are not discriminating against their students based on race and race stereotypes.”
Earlier: North Coast’s Cal Poly Humboldt Among 45 Universities Under Federal Civil Rights Investigation
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These colleges are teaching nothing but agendas and it needs to be stopped!!! White, black, Red, Yellow all need exact same treatment or it IS racist. Why is this fact so hard for ppl to understand. Divide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book and the polarization of our children and the indoctrination in to identity politics and eugenic programs is appalling. These colleges want you to think DEI is doing a service to “minorities” when it puts everyone in danger of untrained or unqualified ppl in positions they should not be in as well as create a hot bed for racism and discrimination. White ppl are only 8% of the whole world population and all their countries have been infiltrated and affected by “migrants” and ethnic cleansing. To speak the truth is to be called racist but I really do not care because the truth always wins and all these antagonistic propaganda pushers and destroyers of children’s minds and self value and worth need to systematically dismantled and brought to justice in MY opinion and I sick of the complete and total B.S. these college communists are pushing!!! We need to push back and hard but peacefully and professionally and protect these children from these mental manipulators and gaslighters!!!!
Here it is — Darlene says:
“White ppl are only 8% of the whole world population and all their countries have been infiltrated and affected by “migrants” and ethnic cleansing.”
I don’t support quotas but I also don’t support strict reliance on GPA and SAT scores — neither of which measure intelligence.
Colleges and universities ought to be able to consider other factors — including that some students were academically disadvantaged based on living in a school district with limited resources.
I’ll believe the anguished cries of “treat everyone the same” are sincere when they start advocating for all schools to be equitably funded and all children to have equal educational opportunity — because that’s not what we have now.
Well it’s true, people always scream about protecting the minority, when the fact is, white people are the minority, we should keep our nations protected at all costs and not allow people to scam us out of the little we have. There aren’t even a billion white people in this world, when there are billions of everyone else.
Prior to 1492 there were maybe only a handful of Portuguese, Picts, and Norse who ever got shipwrecked on North America. Now the USA’s 350,000,000 person population is 58%white. So I’d say white people have gained a pretty good representation in these parts.
Spaniards had been tearing things up in the southeast/gulf region of the US a while before the Mayflower landed to settle… millions of people had to be “cleared out,” subjugated or murdered before we were able to establish a white population on this continent! Lest, we forget.
It’s always been the way of mankind, whatever population can most efficiently exploit the resources of the land shall dominate, subjugate, assimilate, or exterminate the indigenous population. Been the way since dawn of man, America’s development was normal and natural, easily anticipated, no foul just natural evolution for man and beast.
Of course, That’s what many (white men) who wrote history textbooks would have you believe. It’s a path of self destruction. You don’t hear as much about what has been all but destroyed, about reciprocal ways of being, because the narrative of the dominant culture places itself at the center of importance. Consciously we could decide to stop doing this. Please, Don’t act so helpless, we have free will. With all due respect. To throw up your hands in complacency is to be complicit with evil ✌?
Last time I looked Spaniards are white European’s
I know right?! ?
Hence, white Europeans cleared out millions of natives in an act of genocide before the land was settled. White Europeans are the “infiltrators”
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Imperialism happens when a minority infiltrates a country and subverts labor and resources from the infiltrated country to benefit a minority ruling class in another country. Remind me… what’s wrong with being a minority again?
I don’t know, ask the leftists, but I have been told for almost a decade that minority people must be protected at all costs and accommodated, you wouldn’t let the color of a person’s skin get in the way of leftist affirmations would you?
When were white people a majority population in the world?
When did they become a majority in the US?
Remember the Confederacy? The secessionists were nervous because they were descendants of English Slavers who ran out of land to inherit in Barbados. Scots and Irish descendants of indentured servants hated the rich coastal English plantation owners; various rebellions were never taught to you in school. Slaves outnumbered plantation owners. Generated fear of black slaves helped create a sense of common risk among the poor southern Europeans. The myth of a unified Southern Confederacy was created in the 1920s. Most people’s understanding of the American South comes from the Dukes of Hazzard TV show.
Why? The world is going to be populated with browner people and stopping that from happening is not possible, the effect is positive and reistance futile (and pretty ugly). Get over your self imposed purity. It DOES NOT EXIST
Misspelled “resistance” sorry ???
Robot’s autocorrect broken?
More an admixture of skin tones – mix together white, black, yellow, and red gets you brown. Purebloods are becoming a rarity but always the more intelligent will survive beyond the muddled masses when resources become scarce, even if by nefarious means, like lab created viruses or the vaccines the muddled masses are coerced to take.
I hope so. I’m so white. I can’t even go outside when the sun shines it burns me. I wish I was a little bit darker. I’m white on the outside but brown on the inside. I love Mexico and would love a little casaita right in front of a good wave with some tacos.✌️ nature will take its course you can’t stop it in the meantime I’ll just keep working and paying my excessive taxes like a slave and be happy?
Schools will never be equitably funded, and usually the schools with the biggest budgets are the worst ones
Hmmm. That list of schools included institutions with multibillion dollar endowments and billionaire alumni, and that’s before one red cent of federal monies kick in. And then there’s CPH on the list. Has that university even seen what a billion dollars looks like? That appears an oddly specific and small fish to fry.
Same goes with the cries for “equitable funding”. If this nation doesn’t have equitable funding after 50+ years of the Department of Education, then President Donald J Trump is right in getting rid of it! ?
The Department of Education was only established 45 years ago. White Americans love inequality! It’s the main reason most of us have “made it” at all. Therefore, equitable funding will always be met with resistance from cartoon segments of the population. So many people nowadays are just openly admitting without shame that their value system is ?️
Who will bear witness?
Certain segments*
not “cartoon” segments
I will bear witness that you made a totally racist statement and get away with it on this site.
The main factor excluding anybody from higher education is economic. See white people are losing in this economy too. All this race shit is just trying to get your eyes off onto a distraction.
My daughter is very white, was the only senior in her rural white school, and yet had no college readiness training, no college counseling, and had to travel for two hours to take an SAT at 7:00 on a Saturday. None of this helped her outcomes. All these were because administrators just go through the motions, and try to get to the end of their day and don’t care, or have adversarial attitudes towards their students. The 7:00 am SAT time wasn’t to harness student excellence, it was to get the test proctor back to their weekend. There was no security justification, and indeed, after it was too late for my kid, testing was allowed at their own school, and now SATs are considered of low value, and culturally biased anyway. (Before you get your lily white panties in a bunch, remember “culturally biased” works against poor rural white kids too. How many SAT questions are about skiing, versus the weight of a steer?)
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed PDQ after his sermons started covering economic inequalities for all Americans.
What you seem to be saying is that a test trying to be able rate the readiness of all eligible students nationwide was designed to disadvantage your daughter because it wasn’t adapted to her small rural existence? As evidenced by using sking in questions rather than steer weights? That her school was so small it only had one person in the whole senior class but still shouldn’t have disadvantaged her by not offering college readiness training? Or college counseling? Or have required her to travel two hours to take a test starting at 7am?
And this is evidence that all the brouhaha about race misses the point that it’s economic status that is the major discriminatory factor? Not race at all? Despite the fact that there are Asian children of immigrants- presumably not wealthy- complaining that race quotas limited their access?
So, in a world where education above high school level doesn’t have the capacity to teach every person who wants it, how do you remove these economic impediments?
My point is that the factors keeping an average citizen’s kid out of higher education today is economic not racial. My daughter’s case might be tangential. In her case it should have been simple to offer some guidance. The principal’s kids got into great schools. At any given highschool in Marin County she would have had a pack of counselors paid to pay attention. Left to test scores and economic means, where do you think the student body of a university in Arcata would come from? Where do they come from now? I bet it’s not Humboldt county. Cal Poly Humboldt should offer scholarship preference to local students. Fill up a quota of class room seats for Humboldt kids starting from best test scores and grades and working down. Only after those seats are filled, start with the best test scores of kids from Marin.That would be a form of affirmative action.
One thing that pops out if you look at reality is that these affirmative programs are more an issue of scholarships. If you can pay the tuition it’s not an issue. In our society white people (the majority) have greater means to pay, are more likely to attend university, and are less likely to be applying for scholarships.
Well I agree that local students should be a priority. But that kind of would mean there has to be some sort of university respect for the communities in which they exist. And that would be so unlikely a viewpoint from the Ivory Tower .
Admissions are still an issue. And calPoly is in the pell grant churning business. Maybe not Harvard or Stanford or Berkeley but in the vast number of lesser schools, there are much fewer private pay students. Maybe private pay would keep a student from being eliminated by being unable to afford school but denied admission? With Student loans and grants being so common and the attitude of most students so feckless about it, I doubt as if there are that many in that position.
I agree with the statement that “the factors keeping an average citizen’s kid out of higher education today is economic,” yet in the context of history and current events its undeniable that there is a correlation between professional opportunities/income level, and race. Rural living presents its own set of unique challenges (as well as perks IMO!)
Considering that white male landowners were the only people eligible to vote in the U.S.’s not-so-distant-past, it’s short-sighted to divorce race from class completely. Yes, class struggle is the basis of the issue. Race as an indicator has always correlated with income level in this country, irrespective of merit. DEI programs help(ed?) underprivileged white kids, too.
NO STATISTIC should be used to draw conclusions about ANY INDIVIDUAL. That is not an appropriate use of data.
I was under the impression that locals get preference in admissions at CalPoly, and the “Humboldt First” scholarship does offer cash to students who attended high school in Humboldt.
Yes, it is a class war. The powers that be want us divided and of the mindset that it is a race war.
“The Trump Administration’s nation-wide effort to reform higher education by cutting federal funding for institutions with DEI policies is in progress”
seems like “reform” carries a lot of weight for misogyny and racism, as well as authoritarianism.
What is being “reformed” isn’t education, it is social order. This administration thinks America was “great” when it was a lot more white. and they are bringing that mindset with a sledge hammer. the talk that it is otherwise is pure gaslighting and infuriating
nobody is asking these institutions and students for input toward racial integration, the changes are being instituted via threats and other destabilizing approaches.
meanwhile the programs they want to eliminate impact our tribes and the very Latinos this administration wants to round up and deport. the tribes have gone through it for 150 years. we’ve all read the stories about the slaughter, and seen the poverty. these peoples are finally getting their head above water and that process is helped by the university supporting native education, making coursework relevant to their lives. That doesn’t take one thing away from any other ethnicity being students there. it is not a competition.
Times have changed the stories. 100 or even 75 years ago, common stories in the US media involving Native Americans mostly told of murderous attacks against settlers by Indians, where settlers were depicted as seeking a better life and the Indians trying to keep them out of their territories by violence. It was war.
Now just try to find a mention of these in the story of the European westward migration. Indian massacres used to mean white people being killed by native tribes, isolated settlers being slaughtered. Now it pretty much is all white people killing Indians and no mention of the reverse. And no war. Only genocide.
However nowhere until the last couple of years has anyone tried to spin the story to equate that illegal immigrants are identical to Indian tribes and deporting such is the same racism that colored the earlier stories. That’s remarkably useful filtering for opposing any limits on crossing the border with no regard current laws- that “Latinos” are ipso facto USA native Americans equivalent to recognized tribes despite in fact of being a demographics only defined by the very European language they have in common.as a result of Spainish colonialism rather than English colonialism.
Well one thing is certainly true. No matter what racial identity is claimed, all have equal access to infuriating gaslighting.
You might be confusing the movie Dances With Wolves with History. Do you have an example of any contemporary non fiction book that is so one sided as to only portray settler aggression? Disney animated musicals tend to have really “Black and white” good-evil plots, but that’s not the totality of the information available to people.
Most up to date American history books I’ve read describe pre-European societies here as diverse, complex and often confrontational. They describe European societies as diverse, complex, and confrontational. The mixing of the two took place over 500 years, and is still ongoing. Splinters of European society like firearms, horses, and disease spread far ahead of actual European people through existing trade networks. Poor Europeans seeking opportunities were on the front lines clearing forests and trapping in neighborhoods that had already seen 200-300 years of local upheaval linked to new disease and new tools. The details are added to common knowledge every day from records, archeology…you can go stand in the Alamo, or Fort Quebec. History isn’t Liberal or Conservative, it just is. Interpret how you like, but pretending it didn’t happen doesn’t help.
I admit to not have read any serious history books since the three volume Byzantium histories by Norwich. But it also was not what I was talking about. I was talking about current perceptions and popular culture. And the way in which it plays out in comments here.
Oh, and I’ve never seen Dancing with Wolves.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
It wasn’t more white, white people just had more power to exclude brown people and women. DEI & the Civil Rights Act were put in place not to exclude anyone, just to allow previously excluded people access to things that were previously denied them.
You actually know this, you just hate it. Showing your own true colors does and should embarrass you.
Exactly! It’s always been more of a class-struggle in my perspective. Public schools are funded by property taxes, so wealthier neighborhoods with higher property values have more resources for education than the schools in areas with lower property values. Personal economic status has historically been influenced (if not dictated) by race in this country. Redlining… the struggle for suffrage and desegregation happened BECAUSE discrimination was written into the law originally. That is why DEI measures, the 1968 Fair Housing Act and more are critical to CORRECT the INHERENT imbalances that were integrated into our laws and gave White Americans more rights than non-White Americans for centuries. People are seriously brainwashed into thinking that it’s a “level playing field” out here ?
True. At least with a long term overview aggregate if not for anyone person. But there still a huge difference between dragging people down to create “a level playing field” and simply expecting good results from leveling the playing field itself. The difference is not only seeing what is owed the people effected by discrimination in the past but deciding what is owed to the people now and in the future.
It simply can not be all about you all the time. Whoever the “you” is.
I agree. It was shown years ago that SAT and other “standardized” tests were culturally (and other reasons) biased just to begin with. That is, some questions were so regionally or culturally or language specific that nobody but maybe 3 people in the room would ever answer certain questions correct no matter how intelligent they were. Or anything with an essay when you have a student from another country, like foreign exchange students. This caused a lot of kids to get much lower scores unnecessarily just on how the tests were written. And of course, colleges put far too much emphasis on a number score than say, actually interviewing a prospective student and get to know them and see if they’re a good fit for a study program, or help them with their goals.
Here is what? Facts?
The fact that wealth has been confiscated from nations globally by a minority of White people carrying out imperialism… robbing the majority of the world for the benefit of a few.
Old habits are hard to break!
How about this fact:
White nations abolished slavery whereas it is still alive and well in most of the colorful parts of the world to this day.
And spare me the wealth confiscated by whites storyline. Ghenghis Khan immediately comes to mind and I have things to do besides explain world conquest history to you. To whit – let’s not forget who was selling the slaves to the white nations …
Just to clean up your history a bit, remember, Africans ponied up what the slavers demanded. Africans we’re not the ones organizing the sugar and cotton plantations across the Atlantic. Once trans Atlantic slave kidnapping was outlawed, Southern Slaveholders ramped up the breeding and sale of humans here domestically. It was quite a big business that increased up to the Civil war.
I was actually referring to the middlemen between the Africans who sold the losing tribes and the Southern buyers …
As if that robbery was not done by everyone (and not just humans) to the fullest extent of their capability throughout history. Hmm… I wonder if any culture ever existed in history that could make not living like that survive for long.
I suppose that is why every culture has a golden age myth, where life sufficiently in the past to have reality buried, was better. People were wiser, more powerful, more honest, more everything good. And the current people have become degraded which is why things are no longer so good. And they yearn for those days.
Unfortunately, when archeology developed enough to use science to test those ideas, they never found anything other than who is golden is constantly changing and golden is a highly tarnished thing anyway. People either over used the good and the resources collapsed or the world around them moved on and left them behind or outsiders took what was good for themselves. And only a desperate spinning of history turns the fact of life that into the lies people tell themselves.
It’s no more rational to blame white people for those tides than it is to think if only the tides didn’t exist everything was good. It’s not all about any one person no matter how much of a tantrum they throw.
Which is nonsense. The only white people ethnically cleansed were by other white people!
“2023, 58% identified as non-Hispanic white, 20% as Hispanic, 13% as Black, 6% as Asian or Pacific Islander, and 3% as other.” Google search
so actually go up to campus and start counting Darlene. I bet you it’s over 58% white up there. You’ll feel safe
The mind control really takes a toll on ppl and this is why schools and colleges are dangerous and wrong.
If people make up demographics to use as hostile rhetoric, they shouldn’t be surprised when people take them at their word. DEI has created such an institutional advantage that minorities not infrequently found their identities coopted.
But even earlier, the pushing of social generational quilt created such a desire to avoid it that enough white people pretended to be minorities. Especially native American minorities where it is so common that a word has been created for it- Pretendianism. But even in black communities there have been pretenders. Colleges and especially women in colleges seem to have been heavy into it.
It used to be the other way around. Non white people “passed” as white for the advantage. But no one can ever say that white people, especially white women, are not adept at the game. The old joke that denile is not just a river in Egypt applies.
It seems to be mostly a woman thing to be so burdened by social quilting that they pretend to be otherwise than what they are. In men it seems to be more about in-your-face acting out or posturing like Mahmoud Khalil or Luigi Mangione or any number of transwomen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretendian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
Any examples of fake culture preference at HSU? I’ve heard of black women naming their kids “Piper” or “Greg” so they could get their resume read, but never the other way around!
I gave you links but HSU itself? The most I’ve ever seen is the tension with local tribes over non local tribes staffing departments and programs. It’s too small a pond to make headlines.
Except they’re on the list to lose funding because of something. Could it just be that they had a political protest there that made news? It couldn’t just be stifling dissent against a questionable ally. I mean, that would be unAmerican!
Previously Darlene claimed to be a “licensed counselor in the system”.
I wonder if the Aryan Brotherhood didn’t co-opt her while working in the “system”.
Hey Darlene, did you happen to receive a college education and career, and retirement despite all the Ethnics? How did you counsel your non white clients? Tell them to go back where they came from? If a white person was stressing on their lot in life, did you point out it was a Mexicans fault? As an alleged counselor do you feel like your income was based on the effectiveness of your advice, and outcomes of your patients? Did you leverage your education into a show up, go through the motions career at taxpayer’s expense?
“White ppl are only 8% of the whole world population and all their countries have been infiltrated and affected by “migrants” and ethnic cleansing”
That is both incredibly racist, and incredibly stupid. Really, you couldn’t say anything much dumber than that.
“Racist“
There’s a word that has no meaning anymore. Been overused so much it’s irrelevant. People are either cool to each other or they ain’t.
And when the people in power suffer from an utter and complete LACK of “cool”ness towards any of its subjects who lack generational wealth, where do we stand?
Hopefully you’re standing in line for a job or have a brilliant idea you can bring to market. The free ride and social deconstruction of our Republic is coming to an end. The people in power in our Republic will give you every opportunity to succeed. Just don’t expect a lot of entitlements any longer.
For this to work well, wouldn’t everyone have to start from the same starting line. What happens when someone is born with a disability, gets one while on the job, or someone else trips them? Isn’t there a need for a safety net? recompense for injuries? or legal intervention to stop the stronger from taking from the weaker?
Of course there’s a need for a safety net. But there’s no need for apron strings or an umbilical cord main lining “welfare” for extended periods of time. A hand up, not hand outs.
The ultimate extrapolation of that sort of thinking is that a comatose person is due a job which comes down to a another body (or a series ofaround. Being hired as a “safety net.” Because – ta da- everyone is required to be able to be given the place they want whether they can do it or not. There has to be a real limit to compensation. And that is where DEI has taken over. Any such official limits are themselves a violation of the idea there is Equity possible. That Diversity doesn’t turn out to be divisiveness and Inclusion means turn a blind eye to it.
My first but not last contact with this thinking was being assigned a spanish speaking secretary by a manager who was himself an immigrant from a Spanish speaking country. The trouble was none of the people he worked with spoke Spanish, including me, none of the customers spoke Spanish either. The real hitch came when it turned out he didn’t understand English either. I ended, after trying to design his work to compensate, and when that didn’t work, doing his work, my own and the extra work he generated by confusing the heck out everyone. You’d think that the solution would be obvious but it wasn’t. He stayed until the collapse forced the manager to move him. Where he repeated the failure and the office only escaped when he became so depressed he moved back home. Without notice. Couldn’t even find him for weeks. According to your idea, we should have hired a Spanish to English translator for him. Or hire a translator in the first place except there was no need for a translator at all. Yet no one who was not bilingual was allowed to be hired and , as no qualified person was bilingual, one was hire then sent off to school for 3 months to learn spanish. Who then went off for a better job.
This may sound extreme and it was. But DEI males it incredible hard to fire people. It’s much easier to just pretend and create work arounds.
Your experience happens to be an inverted reflection of mine! I have often missed out on work opportunities for lack of Spanish skills. I plan to take a formal class this fall. It will definitely make me more competitive in the job market! I have picked up on many common and useful phrases in the language, because a significant number of my coworkers have spoken Spanish as a first language. Since I don’t have a college degree, my employment has been limited to retail/customer service… Sun Valley… Kohl’s… Grocery Outlet… If I had Spanish skills I could have been a team lead or manager, and earned a bit more than I was able to as a non-Spanish speaker! I’m eager to learn the language comprehensively. Communication is power. Why wallow in ignorance, when the easy alternative promises opportunity for success?
What if you never had entitlements to begin with? Americans are born into poverty every day, by no fault of their own. Higher education (necessary to earn a livable wage) is out-of-reach for many disadvantaged youth… And those who do get through school may end up with “wasted” degrees when they don’t find job opportunities in their field-of-study, and now are burdened with loans they must try to pay off on barista-wages.
Starting a business in this economy sounds like a gamble, no matter how brilliant the idea… Competing with established corporations with substantial budgets for advertising, and franchises on the “corporate teat,” sounds daunting. Most people starting a business won’t see a profit from it for three to five years… most of us don’t have that long to wait for money to come in. Angel investors are in short supply.
What’s more, our success is of the least concern to the people who currently hold the most power in this country. They care about their own comfort and maintaining their position… We are peasants, they watch us squabble and profit from our division, allowing us just enough comfort and freedom to prevent riots from breaking out–not an inch more. The remainder of the fruits of our labor is theirs for the taking.
Well…we should stand together. Together against the mega-wealthy who are grabbing up yet more wealth as we speak. But they are using race and skin color- the oldest of strategies to get us to fight each other instead of of joining together to fight them. The peasants are stupid….all colors of peasants equally stupid and so are deserving of serfdom
This. So much this.
Who is “we,” if you want to stand “together” against the mega-rich? are you identifying yourself as a stupid peasant deserving of serfdom? Or are we supposed to be standing together… against you? What distinguishes you from the peasantry? Sorry, I am getting mixed signals from your response.
No war but class war. I will stand by the argument that race has been used to sow class divisions. They cloak their divisiveness with color, religion, and race, but at the end of the day, it’s a class struggle. If poor White people would stand in unity with poor Hispanics, poor Native Americans, poor Black people, poor Asian people, poor people of all backgrounds–we would certainly be a force to reckon with. Poor White supremacists in particular, however, would like to stand separate and tread on the rest of the serfdom. I do see it as a problem.
It’s certainly relevant to the people who suffer because of it every day of their lives.
Probably more relevant to someone in a despised profession who makes an obscene amount of money by convincing people they’ve been sleighted. Real or perceived.
Just google how many white ppl are in the world and then go look up what is happening in the UK, Ireland, Scotland etc. You are the uneducated one. Go study eugenics and then get back to me.
It would be kind of you to link specific sources! My searches haven’t yielded any evidence supporting your argument.
I believe Google searches are actually tailored to different users based on their individual algorithms and interests. I might be wrong.
My quick search on eugenics turned up this information (http://www.genome.gov/):
Margaret Sanger was a huge proponent of eugenics …
I had never heard that name before today. Where did you learn about her? Thanks for enlightening me!
“Go study eugenics and then get back to me.”
Are you fucking kidding? Eugenics is racism. If that’s what you’re basing your opinion from, then no wonder you believe that racist shit.
“in contemporary usage in the 21st century, the term is closely associated with scientific racism”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Darlene Wilcott, you are a racist.
Hitler was all about eugenics – anyone invoking eugenics as justification for anything is incredibly racist, incredibly ignorant, or both — in this case probably both.
The earlier comment that white people are being “ethnically cleansed” is the tip-off that Darlene is heavy into Replacement Theory.
It’s generous actually to brand the statement as “dumb” or “stupid,” it’s definitely racist. It’s just what she’s been taught, can’t blame the individual for things that are systematically enforced (I.e. racism). Racism has only helped Darlene. Why would she have a problem with it?
Except if every motivation is hate of others, including hating and blaming white people for everything, no idea can never fix anything. It too is racism that doesn’t recognize itself. It called out for revenge, not justice. And when hate oozes from the pores? Good luck with anything like inclusiveness. . It’s already dead.
Recognizing that the systems of control we live under were put into place exclusively (both de jure and de facto) by white people isn’t racist… it’s honest. Honesty has been severely devalued in this political climate. Yet, denial of the fact that the United States was created by White men primarily for the benefit of White men is delusional. I recommend the following text to illuminate this conundrum. Many formats are available for our reference and, err.. enjoyment..?
Free Download: Howard Zinn A People’s History (Archive.org)
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Zinn’s A People’s History PDF
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Have you ever been up there? It’s pretty white.
You are railing against a boogyman they told you about on newsmax. It’s not real.
So? If black, and brown people make up 92% of the world population, one or two places being pretty white is a good thing. Why are you being racist? Why are you against minorities?
Why are you erasing Asians and Indigenous peoples including Native Americans?
Again when was the world majority white? Why should it be? The United States of America, where I live, is 58%white. A majority gained through immigration from Europe. Europeans immigrated to land that was already home to some, and imported humans as slaves to help concentrate wealth. Prior to that the wealthy gentry imported indentured servants from the lower classes. You can see how whether you are a great great grandchild of an escaped Irish servant now living in Humboldt, or a great great grandchild of a slave now living in Oakland, you are more likely to start from a place where it’s harder to get access to an education than the great great grandkids of the plantation owners.
What about that is racist?
Should is a useless standard. Going around wagging your finger at history and blaming people now for it is worse than useless. It’s destructive that it creates the idea growth and change can never fix anything. It’s avoids the hard work of actual improvement in favor complaining.
And your simplistic analysis of history is worse than useless. Way more than half the country never owned slaves. In fact fought a civil war over whether slavery, wealth creating or not, should’ve betolerated. Before that, the US government was actually engaged in military action to end slave trading. In Europe at the time Europeans were immigrating in mass, race based slavery simply did not exist de facto. There were rich and poor as a division of servitude and it was pretty fixed. Class was the European paradigm and they still fight that battle. But class structure? America blew that up.
Slavery was not a European custom It was an eastern custom that was expanded by the explorations that fevered European life after the Middle Ages and the Black Death. It expanded due to the contact with less organized cultures. And which unfortunately the new rediscovery of the Roman Empire history exacerbated. But slavery? That was an established African custom. So why not blame Africans?
Were Africans sailing to England or the USA and demanding they buy slaves? Was feudalism a European custom? Indentured servitude?
“Going around wagging your finger at history and blaming people now for it is worse than useless. It’s destructive that it creates the idea growth and change can never fix anything. It’s avoids the hard work of actual improvement in favor complaining.”
Ok this article is about Linda McMahon of the World Wrestling gladiator drama entertainment, now head of the Dept. of Education, cutting off funding to schools that had students who protested the actions of a foreign country, Seems like Bibi can really pull Trump’s strings and make him dance! Either that, or the administration’s new policy is to only fund white only boy’s schools like the good ol days.
Recognizing what our ancestors left us with doesn’t require “blame” to be placed on modern people. It merely asks modern people to account for history accurately in order to move forward in an informed manner so that historical cycles of violence may be broken. Remember redlining? And hairstyle-based discrimination in the workplace? Many schools don’t share a balanced perspective on history with students, precisely because they originate from the same structures that uphold everyday discrimination based on background and race.
I think the idea that Black and Brown (and Native American and Asian) people are a “Boogeyman” is racist. The blame is misplaced. It’s not that the Boogeyman is not “real,” it’s that non-white Americans aren’t the “problem” that some (i.e. Darlene) believe them to be. Only racist people see an issue with the proliferation of non-white people. White people who have engaged in violence and repression of non-white successes might be (if subconsciously) aware that they have abused their power and privilege, and live in fear of retaliation for their own wrongdoing.
The “Boogeyman” isn’t manifested through a demographic shift in our area… The “Boogeyman” is in fact racism and hatred itself ☮️
We forget that we share a common ancestor with every human on earth, and are not so different from one another as folks in power would like us to believe.
Darlene says “White ppl are only 8% of the whole world population and all their countries have been infiltrated and affected by ‘migrants’ and ethnic cleansing.”
Darlene, are you indigenous to the land you live on? Were your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents born in the United States? Sorry… who got infiltrated again?
I’m comfortable admitting that my people “infiltrated” the land now known as the United States a few hundred years ago. Schools in the United States have for centuries erased our murderous history and the fundamentally racist establishment of this nation. May I recommend Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History.” It contains a ton of primary sources so you might better understand why your opinion about who was “infiltrated by migrants” is essentially incorrect ✌?
This country was built by migrants, whether they were enslaved or free. Check your identity!
By your own standards here, the UK is currently being infiltrated. That’s the point Darlene is making.
The UK saw a bunch of “protests” by white supremacists over an imaginary immigrant stabbing.
Step back a bit and look at UK’s history. You ever heard the phrase, “the sun never sets on the British Empire.”? They were the preeminent colonial power in the world. That’s a lot of citizens. One could argue that the British infiltrated India, Australia, Africa, North America, the Caribbean, Hong Kong….
I don’t see a genocide of English people going on? But feel free to update me! I can be a bit out-of-the-loop.
Boo! Hiss! Thanks for your awokened lecture
I agree but these communists are not pushing peacefully. They will probably riot at Cal Poly this weekend, where they should not be allowed and close down Hwy 101. Just remember that this is Humboldt County. Home of the delusional and unhinged.
The weekend’s almost over. They better riot soon or I will begin to doubt your predictive powers
Please excuse my mistake. I was actually referring to the coming weekend of April 5&6…
“White ppl are only 8% of the whole world population and all their countries have been infiltrated and affected by “migrants” and ethnic cleansing.”
I can’t even believe you typed that.
I almost suspect “Darlene” is from Russian a bot farm. It’s pretty common to generate innocuous sounding American named commenters to repeat the marginal divisive mean stuff real Americans don’t say. Some of the meanest comments come from generic sounding full names. Either these are really basic un creative old people who are really proud of their racism and too retired to get fired, or bots.
I think you’re right.
The same thing happened right after the Israel/Gaza conflict started. The comment section of this site was suddenly flooded with new commentators, posting under “their” full names, spouting inflammatory and hateful rhetoric. I don’t believe these people are silently reading the articles and comments all this time and then suddenly choosing to appear. I agree that it’s probably a Russian bot.
It’s obvious you have no idea what communism is, get your self an education,go back to college and learn to think, for yourself
White women have benefitted the most from DEI programs, black people the least. Educate yourself. A teacher for heavy equipment operator school said, Women by far make the best heavy equipment operators, they are more careful, and skilled than men. It wasn’t that long ago women would have zero chance getting a heavy equipment job, because those jobs only went to men, yet it turns out women are actually often superior to men driving equipment. Without DEI they wouldn’t have hired the most qualified who are actually women.
Diversity, Equity and Inclooosion may have been rolled out with good intentions but became a bludgeon to a couple of races over time. Way simpler to accept applicants based on meritocracy. Best and brightest get to shine.
Seems funny that the CSU doesn’t yet understand how its policies have been inherently racist and then doubles down on “diversity, equity and inclooosion” in its statement.
Same old shit wrapped in a new fuzzy label. Used to be affirmative action.
DEI–didn’t earn it.
The only people I know who receive tuition subsidies at CR are white.
The worst thing about “DEI” Is that it seems to make people stop thinking. If you are white and under valued in society it makes you feel angry. If you are white and OVER valued in society, like a college administrator, you can use it as a bandaid to ignore the fact that regardless of race, your chances of showing up at Cal Poly campus hinge on how rich the school district was where you started.
Really? From your earlier posts it seemed you live an isolated life in the back country. How many people do you who receive tuition subsidies?
(know?) three
Jeez-a-moly! the roads are bad, but business still takes me to town. I have friends who are divorced and friends with kids. And why can’t a rural kid get tuition assistance?
With all the inexperience and incompetence of Trump’s picks. His administration screams DEI in the “didn’t earn it” category. Loyalty first! Competence? Who cares when you have a stable full of authoritarian sycophants?
Your just jealous. Your kid got rejected for running the Bureau of Nuclear disposal after all that college education in Nuclear physics. Pissed off that weirdo cross dresser named Sam Britton, who stole a black African designers clothes, got the gig under No Brain Biden instead of your kid. Oh well, the kid can always apply to be a garbage truck driver for Recology. He can use physics to determine the trajectory of refuse dumped from the garbage truck. PS, why did Biden hire a cross dresser who steals black peoples luggage from the airport? And he is white. And he is a he, not a she as he pretends to be. And he appears to be racist for stealing from black ladies. Got an answer for that? Nope……typical…..anyway……..talk about synchophants…..
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No matter what your opinion of DEI and affirmative action, they are objectively not the same thing. Claiming they are only proves your ignorance.
Same old Mr. Clark shit–getting it wrong 100% of the time.
Convenient, the Gobbels strategy. The racists crying racism.
Basic propaganda strategy- People might notice if you try to claim things that are a little off. But turn it upside down- a full 180- and suddenly they fall for it…hocus pocus
So crying racism is a Nazi idea?
An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on President Donald Trump‘s executive orders ending federal support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
A panel of three judges ruled the orders can be enforced during a pending lawsuit, reversing a nationwide injunction from U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore, the Associated Press reported.
Two of the judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the orders “could raise concerns” about First Amendment rights, but found Abelson’s “sweeping block went too far,” according to the report.
Abelson, a Biden nominee, previously ruled the orders violated the First Amendment right to free speech and were unconstitutionally “vague,” as they did not define DEI.
The ruling followed a lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, the American Association of University Professors and the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which alleged the executive orders were presidential overreach and anti-free speech.
They argued the president’s power “is not limitless.”
Trump’s orders directed federal agencies to terminate all “equity-related” grants or contracts, and required federal contractors to certify that they don’t promote DEI.
The administration argued in court that the ban only affected DEI programs violating federal civil rights laws.
“What’s happening is an overcorrection and pulling back on DEI statements,” attorney Aleshadye Getachew said in a hearing.
While the president secured a win with the latest injunction, a similar federal lawsuit was filed in D.C. U.S. District Court on Wednesday challenging DEI executive orders including: “Ending Radical and Wasteful DEI Programs and Preferencing;” “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government;” and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
The second complaint was filed by NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Lambda Legal on behalf of nonprofit advocacy organizations.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields told the New York Times that “the radical leftists can either choose to swim against the tide and reject the overwhelming will of the people, or they can get on board and work with President Trump to advance his wildly popular agenda.”
Back to stealing other people’s work again, I see.
“Restaurant Opportunities Centers United”!
LMFAO ? ?
Famous higher education advocacy group!
Trumps “wildly popular agenda” appears to be garnering the lowest approval rating of any president this soon after taking office.
Spam.
“Targeted” is inflammatory wording, the SCOTUS has ruled Affirmative Action unconstitutional, renaming it DEI doesn’t change a think, a horse is a horse no matter what you call it. Strip all public funding from institutions that exercise unconstitutional DEI or facilitate antisemitic Hamas demonstrations
It took a conservative think tank fishing around for an asian “plaintiff” to put up to their manufactured case in front of a friendly court. There are no white people who can afford it, denied enrollment in any school. Look at Justice Kavanagh for guidance. Daddy just needs to make a “Legacy Donation” to the institution. A million bucks helps your uh…”merit” based qualifications.
So you think the Asian plaintiffs weren’t real or didn’t have valid concerns over the way they were being discriminated against? FYI, top STEM schools are much more merit-based than the ivy league are. Actual merit is much more important when you’re training people to get things done rather than to seek financial and political power.
No there was no Asian plaintiff. The plaintiff was Edward Blum. The discriminated Asian was a straw man.
Well ain’t that modern advocacy in a nutshell. Sort of sounds like the proxies where Palestians find common cause with Black advocacy groups in the US based on the old “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” Despite the only bastions of slavery left unchallenged in the world is in Africa and especially Muslim controlled countries. It just show how easily humans let hate of others rule their thinking.
Two wrongs never make it right.
Well….Cal Poly Humboldt is always flapping about how extra DEI they are and how super special progressive the wonderful DEI programs were that….I’m just guessing here that they’re up high on the list of schools to get their federal funding chopped. Better start writing that story because here it comes…maybe also a story about how incredibly blind these over-paid super intelligent administrators were to not have a clue this sea change was coming, maybe could have peeled back or at least shut up a little about their prejudiced unfair identity-baiting DEI programs
There are real problems with some of the post-modernist, critical theory nonsense that sometimes goes along with DEI — shoehorning everybody into dichotomies of oppressor and oppressed, or colonizer and colonized — but this “Dear Colleague” letter is right out of 1984.
How does DEI make the campus safer? Obviously Alice Finen is an expert in the matter.
I find it amazing how “they” have managed to turn us against “them” into us against us in such a short time. After the housing collapse wiped out much of the middle class, Occupy Wall Street started, and for at least a few days it was almost universally accepted, then it was hijacked by every group with an axe to grind and led into what we are in today.
Occupy Wall Street was right on target. Originally. By the time it got usurped by Black Lives Matter it had been fully undermined….COINTELPRO is very alive these days. Their methods are less obvious yet more productive. Any approach to align the poor working class against their mega-wealthy masters will be crushed ASAP. The rulers know what they are doing and they know the feudalistic future that they are leading us into…shit’s about to get real and the window to change it is closing. Forget “Woke” just wake up…and smell that coffee
Don’t even get me started on Citizen’s United.
Couldn’t happen to a more disserving college. They reap what they sow. Check out how many administration positions at CPH are dedicated to the BS DEI. Millions of dollars which are not being spent on education or students.
They waste so much PR money on that woke bullshit line. More money for teachers and actual learning would be right. But those overpaid administrators are in an echo chamber and padding their own asses. It’s a parasitical relationship with most of them. Not all! We need some …but talk about top-heavy tax dollar wasting office culture you’re talking the entire CA education system
You’ve got the stats and the facts to back that up, right? Feel free to cite a source.
Laughable Marxist profs are not sufficient sources for any real journalism. This is advocacy scribbling, not journalism. I graduated from that leftwing hellhole and even worked on campus a couple of years. Rampant anti-Semitism aside, the truth is without DEI bringing inner city L.A. and Bay Area kids to the school, the place would wither and die. In the past, 70% of new students were actually from SoCal. These brainwashed youngsters of liberal parents then get further indoctrination from biased, America -hating “teachers.” They end up radicalized. Where do you think Antifa and BLM come from?
I wouldn’t call this actual journalism. It’s just reporting, this thing is happening and this is how this person feels. Ideally, we’d have bunches of reactions from a wider segment but my vast budget doesn’t always allow everything that is ideal.
What happened that this is a report on? It seems pretty much an examination of the prior happenings of the DOE press release about complaints, which is journalism. Who is Alice Finan that her opinion, ended up in this article? How can any report be considered a report when it never finds anyone who made the allegations it talks about? It’s confusing to blame budget issues this being a report but not journalism without some change having happened to report.
It’s incredible you escaped the liberals intact. You must feel like the smartest guy in the room sometimes!
Sqeeee!! Look at you with your endless racist and smug retorts, too bad your brownshirts are being exposed for all to see! No more USAID money for thee!
Smug maybe, but…I’m starting to wonder if you know what the word racism means!
Once upon a time, Universities taught subjects that got you ahead in life such as arithmetic, Science, and literature.
There are some great shop classes at CR. Really practical trades training down there!
Don’t forget History!
Usually these subjects are covered in the first two years as General Ed requirements related to a major. You can also pick them up cheaper at a community college. I’d imagine there’s a stricter requirement for the pace of GE completion if you are on a scholarship or financial aid. If your trust funds is paying for it, there’s more time for electives like pottery or Mayan hieroglyphics.
Such an original idea that money can buy stuff! So unfair! How did that ever come to ve?
CalPoly still says “CSU remains committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable learning environment.”.
They still haven’t got the memo from the SCOTUS. DEI is racist and unconstitutional.
Government affirmative action just gets renamed every time it loses in court. It is now “understerved”. Or is it under represented? It’s hard to keep track.
It’s okay to be white or (actual) Asian.
That some people think DEI says anything to refute this is truly astounding.
If it doesn’t, it means that DEI sees no issue that makes its existence necessary. What is astonishing is that anyone would think it doesn’t mean there are too many white people or Asians and that needs fixing. This is a zero sum game. If the presence of one demographic is too high, then it is fixed by reducing it. So not okay.
Only about a quarter of African American adults have a college degree.
Compare this to about half of White adults.
Clearly there is still work to be done.
Are the programs currently in place the best way to address this?
That’s a good question.
But claiming that they are illegal or discriminatory is nonsense.
Except the work that needs doing is getting equal respect for education in the various groups themselves. Getting black students to graduate from High School, which is free and readily available, is hard whereas Asian students do it easily.
Maybe DEI in the work place would give education a higher place as it could be seen as a tangible benefit. But that was not needed for Asian students, who have a culture of respect for education even when they don’t have it themselves.
Somehow the DEI culture provides a defeatist attitude where, even if you are very qualified, you may lose out to someone less qualified if you don’t meet the demographic while simultaneously, if you do meet the demographics, people will always wonder if you meet the qualifications. And the effort is a burden on everyone.
Personally I think that what has happened is that education has been cheated to make DEI work. And way too many people have wasted energy getting a degree when they don’t have the motivation to use it no matter what race. A high school degree is often meaningless and a college degree has taken its place. Only 4 years later and at at a much higher cost.
“Asian” is a huge catch-all.
Growing up, there were Chinese families who had been in this country much longer than my family. There were also Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian families “fresh off the boat” starting from scratch. I’m guessing the Asians Linda McMahon is worrying about are the Australians.
But never underserved…
“The world is changing around me and it’s scary.”
–Big Rick
The world is not fair. That’s just the way it is some are beachfront properties with rich parents some are born in the desert some are born in Africa with no schools there are rich Black people rich Mexicans rich Asians poor white people rich white people. It’s just the way it goes no one starts from the same starting line But in America, you can work your way up if you try hard if you don’t, you don’t and if you try, you might not make it that’s just the way it is.
skin color something you have no control over so it’s not worth complaining about or doing anything about you need to complain about things you do have control over like working hard not giving up
All this virtue signaling for decades yet backhandedly discriminating is just unacceptable
Letting someone in or not based on their skin color and not just their test scores is racist ie DEI is racist. Remember affirmitive action? Same thing courts said it was racist. These whiney ass professional victims need the STFU and get a life.
Supreme Court reverses affirmative action, gutting race-conscious admissions : NPR
As Trump fills his cabinet with incompetent, entitled white men DUI hires like Pete Hegseth, and ketamine addict Elon Musk. Dei brings us a much higher quality of candidate
Trump himself is a DUI hire. Trump deports hard working immigrants, that ensure there is fresh food in grocery stores, out of the country, and at the same time imports the truly depraved criminal human traffickers, the Tate Brothers into the country. None of this makes any sense, Trump is not even qualified to tie his own shoes.
The Tate bros already had dual citizenship, as their father was born in the US. Maybe you’re of a higher caste than myself, most of the produce at the places I shop is from Central America.
Not a big Trump fan here and can’t speak for competence nor the entitled, but are you sure the cabinet is filled with all white peeps?
Do you all understand, White women by far have been the biggest beneficiaries of DEi programs, followed by Asians, black people are at the very bottom of the list of those who’ve benefitted from DEI. Yet black people have been made the face of DEI. White women have been helped the most.