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Jun 28, 2026 ~ 'The Decline Of Academia'   "The high academic standards that made Western universities the envy of the world rested on this foundation. Admissions and appointments turned on objective metrics: entrance examinations, SAT scores, publication records, citation indices. Excellence was color-blind because truth is color-blind."   "Then DEI enters as an infectious disease in a healthy organism. Cloaked in the language of compassion and redress, it demands that universities lower standards to achieve demographic parity. However, quotas favoring applicants on the basis of racial affiliation are not justice; they are racial discrimination rebranded with therapeutic euphemism. To discriminate against the more qualified Asian or White applicant in favor of the less qualified Black or Hispanic one is not to heal historical wounds but to inflict new ones—on the integrity of knowledge itself and on the innocent individuals denied their due."   "The West is replicating ideological pathology under new banners. DEI bureaucracies function as latter-day commissariats, enforcing political reliability through mandatory trainings, bias reporting, and diversity statements that function as loyalty oaths. Institutional autonomy withers as universities become instruments of social engineering rather than independent knowledge production. The 'winners and losers' of meritocracy, however imperfect, reflected real differences in talent and effort. The enforced uniformity of equity produces universal mediocrity and seething underground resentments." [College, CRT DIE Wokeness, Education, Western Civilization]

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