Woke Mind Virus - UNC version

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Took a bit of a beating today in Chapel Hill, NC.

Is the tide turning against this irrational insanity?

UNC-Chapel Hill BOT votes to divert DEI funding, redirecting it to campus public safety

The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to divert millions of diversity, equity and inclusion funding to public safety and campus law enforcement

www.wunc.org

Marty Kotis is vice chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, which initially introduced and passed the “flex cut amendment.” Without citing specific examples, he called DEI programs “discriminatory and divisive.”

“I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” Kotis said. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”

 

[Colonoscopy]

In general "wokeness" is receding from its apex in 2020.

The campus protests, in general, seem to have been condemned by the greater portion of the public.

The extreme end of DEI also seems to be under fire. (although it's hard to know exactly what is falling under that label anymore, or if it usurped other administrative categories at Uni that had been around uncontroversially for a while)

 

[LuteHawk]

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has 30,000
students and a $4 billion dollar annual budget. It is not good
for recruiting if you cannot handle paid protesters who come
from the outside to riot. Student safety is important priority.

Bottom Line: America's Universities need to be safe places
to get an education and a degree.

 

[BelemNole]

Wow, UNC?!

I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!

 

[jasonrann]

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has 30,000
students and a $3 billion dollar annual budget. It is not good
for recruiting if you cannot handle paid protesters who come
from the outside to riot. Student safety is important priority.

Bottom Line: America's Universities need to be safe places
to get an education and a degree.

Thanks for sharing this.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

LOL...the UNC Board of Trustees includes a GOP fundraiser, a former Republican nominee for governor, and the chief of staff to Phil Berger when Berger was GOP leader of the state Senate. Also serving - a legislative director for former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth, a former Republican state legislator, and a former Republican member of the state House. The board's chair is a GOP donor. The GOP has been turning it more and more rightwing for over a decade. This really isn't the shocking outcome some of you seem to think it is.