The University of North Carolina is leading the charge against woke culture in universities by having voted to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements, as well as compelled speech.

The decision was voted on during a Board of Governors meeting on Thursday. After the meeting was concluded, the board released a statement regarding their decision on DEI.

The statement read that the university “shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe to or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition to admission, employment, or professional advancement,” and that employees or applicants “can’t be solicited or required to describe his or her actions in support of, or in opposition to, such beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles.”

President of Color Us United, an organization that has been pushing universities to ban DEI across American schools, Kenny Xu told Fox News that the school’s decision will have “have higher implications for higher education across the country.”

“We believe in a race blind, meritocratic society with high standards and that’s what has traditionally produced excellence in the United States,” he said. “When we saw wokeness and DEI infiltrating the medical profession, that’s when we became concerned because medicine is the one place where everybody knows, liberals, conservatives, independents, that you need the most qualified doctor to get the best outcome. When diversity, equity and inclusion says ‘No, you need doctors of a certain race’ or ‘No, we need to be teaching things from the lens of social justice rather than the biological practice of medicine,’ that’s when we got concerned.”

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OAN Geraldyn Berry
UPDATED 2:15 PM PT – Thursday, February 23, 2023

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on Thursday that critics say could open the door to the development of woke artificial intelligence (AI) that “promotes racial discord and bigotry.”

 

All federal agencies are required under the order to create an annual “equity action plan” with the goal of assisting “underserved areas.”

“Achieving racial equity and support for underserved communities is not a one-time project,” the new order said Thursday. “It must be a multi-generational commitment, and it must remain the responsibility of agencies across the Federal Government.”

In the directive, it is required that the “agency equity teams” be established by each secretary in Biden’s cabinet within 30 days. These teams will be made up of career officials and presidential appointees from the competitive service. Due to union rights, the need for justification, and other drawn-out procedures, career officials are notoriously difficult to fire.

“Each Agency Equity Team shall support continued equity training and equity leadership development for staff across all levels of the agency’s workforce,” the order said..

To note, the order implies that those people hired will probably continue to work for the federal government long after Biden leaves office.