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The University of South Florida planned to implement a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) advisory program that sees students segregated by race and advocates for ‘white guilt’ and ‘white fragility’.
According to Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, public documents that have since been removed from USF’s online servers reveal a radical DEI program.
Includes ‘anti-racist resources’ that promote left-wing political activism and highlight negative ideas about white students.
Rufo, a conservative activist, claimed on Twitter that some of the reparations include defunding the police, abolishing prisons and rejecting the “white, capitalist Jesus.”
The public documents, removed from university servers but obtained by Rufo, reveal how the programming includes anti-racist resources, segregated counseling sessions and promotional materials for white students to confront their ‘white privilege’, ‘white guilt’ and ‘ white violence’. fragility.’
Rufo alleges that the end point of the program is left-wing political activism and that USF offered racially segregated counseling sessions and “white identity development” materials for Caucasians.
The University of South Florida appears to have adopted a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program that segregates students by race
Documents Obtained By Conservative Activist Christ Rufo Promote Left-Wing Political Activism: ‘Anti-Racist Appeals’, ‘Reparations’, ‘Defund Police’ And ‘Abolish Prisons’
Public documents obtained by Rufo reveal how the programming includes anti-racist resources, segregated counseling sessions and promotional materials for white students to confront their ‘white privilege’, ‘white guilt’ and ‘white fragility’.
A document obtained by Rufo seems to study how racial identity is interpreted by people of different ethnicities.
In a series of tweets, Rufo suggests that the programming is “the condemnation of American society” that has only intensified following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
Rufo suggests how the university’s DEI administrators offered the solution: “racial reeducation that provides racially segregated counseling sessions and promotes ‘white identity development’ for white students to confront their ‘white privilege,’ ‘white guilt,’ and ‘white fragility’.
In a series of tweets, Rufo suggests that programming is “the condemnation of American society.” Following the death of George Floyd, nearly every appendage to the University of South Florida (USF) condemned the United States for its alleged “systemic racism,” “white supremacy,” and “interlocking systems of oppression.”
‘According to these materials, white people must first go into the ‘disintegration’ process, experience ‘white guilt’ and think, ‘I feel bad about being white.’ Then, after their identity is broken, they go into a ‘reintegration’ phase, thinking, ‘it’s not my fault I’m white.’
‘Finally, as whites go through the ‘pseudo-independence’ and ‘immersion’ stages, they will begin to ‘work against systems of oppression’ and ‘use [their] privilege to support anti-racist work.’ In the end, his psychology must fully conform to political ideology, ”Rufo tweets.
‘USF promotes a variety of racially segregated scholarship programs that explicitly exclude white students. These programs are in direct violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.’
In the past, Rufo, who is well known for his activism against critical race theory, has described CRT as “invading every aspect of the federal government” and posing “an existential threat to the United States.”
The University of South Florida is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota.
Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to block state universities from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory.
The findings come as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently proposed legislation to eliminate all DEI and Critical Race Theory programs at state universities, which is expected to be adopted by the state’s Republican-led legislature in March.
The second-term governor, who is widely expected to launch a 2024 White House bid in late spring or early summer, has become a fierce opponent of so-called red flag policies on race, gender and health. public.
Those positions endear him to the conservative GOP base, but threaten to alienate independent and moderate voters in both parties who are influential in presidential politics.
Critical race theory is a way of thinking about American history through the lens of racism.
Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what scholars saw as a lack of racial progress following civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions, which function to maintain white dominance in society.
“I think people want to see real academics and they want to get rid of some of the political trappings that seem to accompany all of this,” DeSantis said at a news conference last month, adding that critical racial theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, known as DEI, would not get ‘funding, and that will wither on the vine’.