Nothing is safe from diversity, equity and inclusion ideology — not even your dog.
DEI is one of the ways critical race theory is put into acti🐽on. CRT maintains that seemingly neutral systems are just a ruse to maintain white supremacy.
DEI uses the same rac✤ial lens, focusing on “whiteness” as the core evil in society.
Its elaborate enforcement mechanisms include bias-response teams and anonymous complaint procedures: Students snitch on each oth🐷er and on faculty, faculty snitch on each other and on staff, and everyone lives in 🌱fear of cancellation.
Tꩲhe academic DEI apparatus has a Maoist cultural revolutionary feel.
What happened on campus did not stay on campus.
CRT started on academia’s fringes, but, in the DEI form, it has spread like wildfire, scorching campuses, corpo෴rations, government agencies — every institution in socie⛎ty.
After George Floyd’s death, the hyper-focus on race became a national obsession, 🐈w🔜ith an estimated $50 billion pledged to “racial justice” efforts.
At Cornell University, where one of us teaches law, Ibram X. Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist” was the recommended summer 2020 readi🐷ng, promoting noxious and unlawful racial discrimination: In Kendi’s words, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.”
We know how far and wide CRT programming has metastasized because🎃 at our , we track CRT and its variants, such as DEI and “antiracism” programming.
Our interactive maps cover more than 500 colleges and universities, elite K-12 prep schools, military-service academies and medical schools.
Major media outlets have extensively💯 covered our research, which was even highlighted in a congressional resolution.
It seemeꦅd that nothing shocks us꧑ anymore when it comes to CRT and its offshoots.
But then we researched the after receiving a tip on critical race theory’s spread 🐼into a particular school.
So we dug into the data, half-seriously at first, not expecting much. Our research covere🐲d th💜e top 11 vet schools (two schools are tied for one of the top spots, hence the odd number).
We shouldꦰn’t have been surprised when we found DEI has𝕴 not spared veterinary education.
But we were naïve, thinking love of animals was the la⛄st pure bastion of American decency.🐻
Dogs are colorblind; surely veterin💮ary medicineඣ would be as well.
Lamentably, DEI has penetrated deeply into the training of veterinarians who will take care of your pe𓃲ts, that “the industry was exclusively for White people” and, as Cornell says, “building anti-racism in animal welfare” is needed.
White pet owners “not w🌄anting a Black veterinarian treating their pet” is , pe♈r the American Veterinary Medical Association.
“biases towards pe🌌rsons of color,” a University of Pennsylvania graduate thesis says; indeed, “implicit racial biꦅas in the United States adversely affects the welfare” of the breed.
Though “biases” come into play whenever a vet makes “a judgment toward treatment” — or so insists a paper titled☂ “Preparing ve🔥terinary hospitals for greatness through DEI initiatives.”
Late in 2020, the American Veterinary Medical Association, with the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges, created the Commissionꦬ for a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Veterinary Profession to promote “the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the veterinary profession” and encourage and 🐻help “veterinary medical associations and animal health companies to measure and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Its recommendations include giving “guidance” to vet schools on “creating a brave space for DEI issues and discussions, implicit bias and mℱicroaggression training” — and, of course, “a permanent DEI posi𓂃tion,” along with incorporating “DEI content in the professional program.”
Eight of the top 11 schools now have CRT/DEI✨ curriculum or training; three have school-wide mandatory CRT traininꦉg.
The staff and faculty training prognosis is much worse. Eight of the 11 schools have some sort of mandatory faculty and staff training. Six of the 11 integrate DEI i𝐆nto their search and hiring processes.
Last, but not least, a majority of the to🍒p 11 schools have bias-reporting tools that allow for the anonymous reporting of alleg꧅ed DEI violations.
DEI is rapidly taking over not just academia in general but even the training of Fido’s veter♏inarian.
DEI in veterinary schools is a somewhat comical microcosm of the larger DE🏅I problem. But the damage to society from the hyper-focus on race is no laughing matter.
William A. Jacobson is a clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School and president and founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, where Kemberlee Kaye is editorial director, and managing editor of CriticalRace.org.