Can We Just Abandon the Pretense That Affirmative Action and DEI Are to Pick Equally Qualified Applicants of Victim Groups?

6/27/25 College Fix has links to emails leaked by whistleblowers at Cornell:

"In the first whistleblower email, dated Dec. 2020, the STEM department chair begins with explaining their conversations with a DEI dean and “our hoped-for diversity hire” and how they want to do something “a little out of the ordinary.”

"It goes on to state “the best is to invite just one person” and “…not have that person in competition with others.”"

Essentially an admission that victim group members cannot handle competition with other applicants who are not designated victims.

The medical school was even worse:

"“A snapshot archived on August 27, 2024, shows that: ‘[d]epartments are eligible for up to $50,000 in subsidies for the hiring of faculty from groups that are underrepresented in medicine (URiM),’ with additional funds for hiring two URiM candidates.”"

Imagine if white racists ever became dominant voices in academia (right after the pigs fly over campus) and they adopted an internal policy of disregarding applicants unable to write an adequately white supremacist manifesto. 

The only way to stop discrimination is to stop discriminating.