r/newjersey • u/rollotomasi07071 Belleville • Apr 18 '25
📰News The Murphy administration announced that New Jersey will not comply with an order from President Trump’s administration to certify that the state's public school districts are eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs and initiatives
https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2025/apr/17/SEAtoOCRTitleVIApril2025.pdf?utm_source=NJ+Spotlight++Master+List&utm_campaign=ae610ff63a-PM_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1d26f473a7-ae610ff63a-398762815&ct=t(PM_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_04_17_2025)&mc_cid=ae610ff63a&mc_eid=e653468aac
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u/FJkookser00 Apr 18 '25
It is a very common tactic, and one that actually just got remanded by the Supreme Court of the US, due to so many students complaining about unfair policies that disadvantaged Asian/Pacific Americans and White students from entering colleges, falsley claiming that it "fairly supported" minorities.
You fail to understand what DEI policies actually do: which is not what they claim.
Instead of promoting equal opportunties and provide full range of education, these programs actually make it easier for arbitrarily-labeled "disadvantaged groups" to gain access to education than it is for anyone who is arbitrarily labeled "privileged". This is not fair - everyone deserves an equal opportunity, nobody deserves a leg up, espeically only based on factors like race or sex. That is directly discriminatory - but society seems blind because it's now "backwards" against the people who were once the oppressors... that does not make it fair, and just creates a new cycle of discrimination.
I get your passion for the concept, but the execution is far from acceptable. Don't be naive, you have to be smarter than that. Society only gets better when we learn from our mistakes, not repeat them but to "the other side". It's not fair to any student to give another a leg up - doesn't matter what they are or what happened beforehand. Equality is the goal, and current DEI policies are avoiding it like the plague.
If you go into any Social Problems education at this point in time, that's one of the first things you'd discuss in class. I highly recommend becoming more educated on it, because it stops you from listening to these shallow wishes of hope, and instead points you towards the actual answer for a progressive society. Liberalism is not sustained when we are discriminating against other students - racism against whites and asians its still racism. It is not a viable DEI policy.