University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing
University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing
Some members of board of trustees, which voted for divestment, cited students’ Gaza protests as reason for redesignation of funds
UNC Chapel Hill’s commencement was held the day before Monday’s DEI announcement. At the ceremony, football stadium screens displayed a message that read: “Anyone who does not leave or put down signs when asked will be removed and arrested. Thank you for your cooperation.”
For those in the back, this isn’t ok. This isn’t freedom. This isn’t American. This isn’t free speech.
Oh, it’s pretty fucking American…
You’re right. It’s not a free speech issue on private property. I’ve been attending protests for over 25 years. You need to know the law before you dig in your heels, or accept the inevitability that the protest can legally be shut down. Resisting after request for disbandment will only catch a charge.
The way to play is cat and mouse. They say no signs, you make t-shirts and chant. They say no t-shirts, you use skin paint…
What was the point of that second sentence when the threat of non-cooperation is arrest?
It's well played by the right. Make sure there is a direct visible tie between the completely unconnected areas of policing and diversity. Buy some Jan 6th friendly
anti democracy cops while defunding your opposition, it's perfect. Sets the stage for your coup attempt state militarythe vice-chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, Marty Kotis, indicated that he considered the DEI programs to be disharmonious to the campus atmosphere. “I think that DEI in a lot of people’s minds is divisiveness, exclusion and indoctrination,” Kotis said at the meeting during which the vote was held. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”
And the way they go about promoting unity and diversity of thought is more police?
Fascists gonna fascist
If nobody is allowed to complain about lack of unity and diversity because they know there's a beat down for complainers, there isn't a problem, is there?
Gotta love the complete hypocrisy in the VC's statement of simultaneously silencing dialogue about diversity and needing more dialogue and diversity. She just needs more shades of white on campus.
"safety" and "policing"
This is gerrymandering.
Democrats win statewide elections and the MAGA Klan runs the legislature because of decades of Koch brother funding.
As an employee at a school in the UNC system, Chapel Hill is just one school in the entire UNC system. It’s UNC-CH you lazy freaking reporters. There are 16 others and as much as Chapel Hill likes to think they’re special, they aren’t.
So no UNC did not divert $2.3M, Chapel Hill did.
Is that not the biggest campus? Like their flagship location?
I wouldn’t think that matters. I think it only matters if the school has their own ability to change where they allocate budgets and not the system as a whole directing it.
Nope. That’s NC State. Well biggest anyway, not sure what you mean be flagship. UNC-CH just likes to think they’re the only one that matters.
Sorry, it’s just a pet peeve of mine. Had three of my boys go to UNC schools and none of them were in Chapel Hill.
It’s not like you can say you went to UC and everyone assumes it’s Davis or Berkeley.