TCU Makes it on the Daily Wire
Texas Christian University (my university) made the news recently. The Daily Wire—homes of Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and Candice Owens—published an article about a “Microaggressions Workshop” that TCU hosted last week. The TCU Diversity and Inclusion Office held this workshop to encourage progressive and “anti-racist” practices in the workplace. Though this workshop was encouraged among TCU graduate students, my school requires grad students who work as research or teaching assistants to take some diversity workshops—including an upcoming one called an “unconscious bias” workshop.
Here is the link to the Daily Wire article for anyone interested: https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-christian-university-microaggression-workshop-encourages-students-to-target-coworkers-with-politically-incorrect-views
A Noticeable Shift at TCU
As a current TCU student, I have become used to seeing all the progressive ideology and woke culture at my university. Nevertheless, many TCU students have noticed a shift at TCU in the past few years. Within the past year or so, TCU has seemed to double down on its promotion of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI).
When I first visited TCU in the summer of 2017, I never heard the words “diversity, inclusion, and equity” uttered on my tour of the school. Fast forward to today (Spring 2021), the term DEI is plastered all over TCU. You can find the term pretty much anywhere on campus from TCU athletics events to buildings on campus.
My school’s commitment to DEI might sound like a good thing to some people. Who can be against inclusivity and fairness, right?. In reality, TCU’s advocacy of DEI is a two-faced attempt to promote Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Cultural Marxism. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, critical race theory properties that American society, institutions, and laws are inherently racist. Supposedly, American whites have set up society in such a way to create racial inequalities for minorities communities within the United States. As you read more about the DEI initiatives that TCU has implemented, you can see how critical race theory has become an embedded creed of TCU. Of course, not every student, professor, and administrator at TCU supports Critical Race Theory. That point is true. However, TCU constantly echoes CRT and DEI talking points so much that many students feel uncomfortable speaking out. Dissenting opinions against CRT and DEI are unacceptable on your typical college campus.
So, you might wonder: what’s the point in pushing back against DEI and critical race theory? Well, we all probably worry about the current polarization within the United States. This level of hostility is unsustainable in long-run. Therefore, I believe that we the American people need to push back against the ideas and practices that actively undermine the United States.
DEI and Critical Race Theory are both damaging our country . Nothing about DEI is unifying. It seeks to divide TCU students and Americans as whole along the lines of race, gender, and sexuality. Certainly, DEI and Critical Race Theory seek to obliterate what little Americans have left in common.
Examples of DEI & CRT at TCU
For the rest of this post, I have decided to list some of the disturbing developments at TCU in the past year concerning DEI and CRT:
1. Race & Reconciliation Pillar by the Founder’s Statue
In 1869, brothers Addison and Randolph Clark founded Texas Christian University (TCU). Before founding the university, both of the brothers served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
In the past year, TCU decided to erect a pillar next to the TCU founders’ statue in the academic section of campus. The pillar exists as part of the recent Race and Reconciliation Initiative at TCU to raise awareness about racism and inequality. Even though TCU’s founders have been dead for over one hundred years, the school felt the need to “study TCU’s prior relationship with slavery, racism and the Confederacy”.
At TCU’s first Race & Reconciliation Townhall event in August 2020, TCU strategic communication department chair Jacqueline Lambiase said that ‘the university’s history has been “erased and this initiative will need to work forward to make a change for the people on this campus.”’ If you take a minute to think, this talk of erasing history is the sort of language that the Chinese Communists used in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Revising history to suit one’s current political agenda is not a new strategy.
Of course, any normal TCU student believes that racism, slavery, and the Confederacy were wrong; but, this program is seeking to erase our country’s and university’s history.
2. TCU Athletics
Various Social Justice Warrior & BLM phrasing exists at nearly every TCU sporting event. It’s gotten pretty nauseating to see how prevalent SJW messaging is at TCU athletics events. In August 2020, a TCU football player gathered TCU students, faculty, and staff to create an “End Racism” mural. The mural can still be seen outside of the TCU football stadium.
3. The Office of Inclusive Excellence in the Neeley School of Business
This event annoyed me personally because business students lost a study room once this office was established. In the article below, the TCU business school’s dean highlighted the importance of having a physical space for DEI initiatives.
4. TCU Bias Reporting Hotline
‘TCU’s website offers a link to a “Bias reporting” hotline to students. This feature looks and sounds Orwellian to any sensible person.
Here is an excerpt on the TCU website that explains a “bias incident”:
Bias occurs whether the act is intentional or unintentional, may be directed toward an individual or group and may be initiated by an individual or group. Bias may contribute to creating an unsafe or unwelcoming environment.
If you don’t believe me, here is a link to the bias reporting hotline:
https://tcu.edu/institutional-equity/report-a-bias.php
In summary, all of these examples have occurred in the past year. Many other examples abound of how DEI has significantly impacted TCU.