Damning study reveals what DEI does to people — and unsurprisingly, it's really bad



Few public and private institutions proved resistant in recent years to infection by the race-obsessive ideology underpinning the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. The body politic appears, however, to be experiencing a belated immune response.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC, for instance, helped pave the way for the dismantling of DEI on college and university campuses nationwide. Lawsuits and federal civil rights complaints targeting companies' DEI initiatives immediately followed. Likely keen to avoid similar legal challenges and facing pressure from normalcy advocates, multiple American organizations once captive to the race-obsessed program, including Ford, Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply, Jack Daniel's, and Walmart, have abandoned DEI.

A study published Monday by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University provided strong justification for why Americans should dismantle the remainder of the DEI regime sooner rather than later, noting that race-obsessed programming is divisive, counterproductive, and helps create authoritarians.

'Some DEI programs not only fail to achieve their goals but can actively undermine efforts.'

The study, titled "Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias," noted at the outset that a Pew Research Center study found in 2023 that over half of American workers have DEI meetings or trainings at work.

While the re-education that the majority of American workers are compelled to undergo is supposedly intended to increase empathy in interpersonal interactions, cultivate inclusive environments, and maximize diversity on the basis of immutable characteristics and sexual preferences, the study indicated that there is evidence to suggest "that some DEI programs not only fail to achieve their goals but can actively undermine efforts."

"Specifically, mandatory trainings that focus on particular target groups can foster discomfort and perceptions of fairness," said the study. "DEI initiatives seen as affirmative action rather than business strategy can provoke backlash, increasing rather than reducing racial resentment. And diversity initiatives aimed at managing bias can fail, sometimes resulting in decreased representation and triggering negativity among employees."

The researchers collected various DEI education materials used across three groupings — race, religion, and caste — in "interventional and educational settings," excerpted rhetoric from the materials, then employed the excerpts in psychological surveys "measuring explicit bias, social distancing, demonization, and authoritarian tendencies." Participants in the study were also tasked with reviewing the materials or neutral control materials.

The results were damning.

The researchers found that across all three groupings, participants "engendered a hostile attribution bias, amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice."

In one test, researchers split 423 Rutgers University students into two groups. One group read an apolitical control essay about American corn production while the other read an essay incorporating racist CRT propaganda from Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.

After each group completed reading their assigned materials, participants were presented with a "racially neutral scenario" — where a student's application to an elite East Coast university was rejected following his interview by an admissions officer — and asked questions about their perceptions of racism in the interaction. The scenario did not mention the race of either the hypothetical student or the admissions officer.

'Exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism.'

The group previously provided with propaganda from Kendi and DiAngelo reportedly "developed a hostile attribution bias ... perceiv[ing] the admissions officer as significantly more prejudiced than did those who read the neutral corn essay."

According to the researchers, "Participants exposed to the anti-racist rhetoric perceived more discrimination from the admissions officer (~21%), despite the complete absence of evidence of discrimination. They believed the admissions officer was more unfair to the applicant (~12%), had caused more harm to the applicant (~26%), and had committed more microaggressions (~35%)."

Simply put, Kendi and DiAngelo had students seeing racism and unfairness that wasn't there.

In the other groupings, participants provided DEI materials similarly turned out nastier than the control group.

For instance, in the caste study, Adolf Hitler quotes resonated with participants who were exposed to DEI materials when the word "Jew" was swapped out for "Brahmin."

"These findings suggest that exposure to anti-oppressive narratives can increase the endorsement of the type of demonization and scapegoating characteristic of authoritarianism," wrote the researchers.

"When DEI initiatives typically affirm the laudable goals of combating bias and promoting inclusivity, an emerging body of research warns that these interventions may foster authoritarian mindsets, particularly when anti-oppressive narratives exist within an ideological and vindictive monoculture," said the study. "The push toward absolute equity can undermine pluralism and engender a (potentially violent) aspiration of ideological purity."

The paper concluded, "The evidence presented in these studies reveals that while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment."

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Embattled Biden Nominee Adeel Mangi Facilitated Meeting Between Leaders of Anti-Israel and Anti-Police Groups

Embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi introduced the heads of two left-wing organizations whose anti-Israel and anti-police stances have imperiled his nomination for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

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Adeel Mangi Downplayed His Involvement With Anti-Israel Think Tank, Emails Show

During his confirmation hearing, embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi told senators that he left the board of an anti-Israel think tank because it was not sufficiently "productive."

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Rutgers University President Escorted Out of Town Hall by Police as Student Protesters Take Over

A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to "globalize the intifada," hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish students, and forced the school's president to end the event early, according to videos of the event and attendees who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

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Rutgers professor claims anyone pointing out that gay people are harshly persecuted in Palestine are the 'homophobic' ones



A Rutgers University professor went to great lengths to attempt to fabricate a paper-thin defense of Palestine being extremely harsh towards LGBTQ individuals.

In the name of intersectionality, Maya Mikdashi attempted to deflect any criticism towards Palestine's proven agenda against any and all LGBTQ rights. The progressive professor instead cried that anyone pointing out the fact that gay people are persecuted in Palestine are the actual ones who are "homophobic."

Mikdashi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

The professor has a focus on "law, citizenship, secularity, religious conversion, sexual difference, and the war on terror."

Mikdashi has absolutely no issue with bashing the United States for transphobia and a slew of other issues.

Mikdashi wrote in 2016: "The United States is in the midst of an election cycle where bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration, Islamophobia, gun-love, imperial hubris, and sexism are political platforms — and political and national culture is not something one can 'opt out' or into depending on ethnicity, race, religion, sex, gender, or even 'free will.'"

However, Mikdashi will devotedly defend Hamas against anyone who points out the fact that Palestine is fanatically against LGBTQ rights.

According to Equaldex, Palestine ranks 192 out of 197 countries in public opinion about legal rights and freedoms for LGBTQ+ people.

The Williams Institute – a UCLA think tank devoted to gender studies – ranked Palestine 130 out of 175 countries in regards to "social acceptance of LGBTQIA people."

On March 20, Mikdashi spoke at an event titled: "Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle."

Mikdashi co-hosted the event at the University of Illinois with Dr. Nadine Naber – a professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program, the Global Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Naber claimed, "The gender binary is foundational to colonization. And also like that the gender binary – like all borders – are mare possible through state violence."

Mikdashi said during the event, "So I've been at protests where I'm then told, 'Don't you know what Hamas would do to you if you were in Palestine.'"

The woke professor proclaimed, "We have to start naming this as actually as homophobic. You cannot rehearse violence to queer people."

She declared, "It's violent."

Mikdashi claimed that noting that Palestine has a horrendous record on LGBTQ rights is the same as "pinkwashing," which she said was a "form of homophobia."

Pinkwashing is defined as an "appropriation of the LGBTQIA+ movement to promote a particular corporate or political agenda."

Naber added, "If you were to say you were experiencing sexism in the SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] they would say, 'There goes those Palestinian's again, silencing women in their communities.'"

She continued, "So no one is going to say it. And if you do say it [others] will say you're a 'traitor and collaborating with Zionism.'"

Naber contended that "rape and sexual assault" are embedded in the founding of Israel.

"Indeed the practices of rape and sexual assault that have been well-documented during the founding of Israel and continued today are not an exception or a secondary impact of colonial violence," Naber said as she read from a paper.

"[They] are part of the settler, colonial white supremacist logics and practices of Israel that conflate colonized women with the land and nature and assume that therefore to dominate the land necessitates dominating Palestinian women's bodies and their reproductive capacities from 1948 until today," Naber said, according to the Daily Mail.

DHS Official Worked With Anti-Israel Group Tied to Embattled Biden Judicial Nominee

A top Department of Homeland Security civil rights official has previously unreported ties to a Rutgers University think tank that congressional investigators are calling a "hotbed of radical antisemitic, anti-American, anti-Israel, and pro-terrorist activity."

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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded group trying to bury video of twisted interviews with little kids about sex and masturbation: 'Do you play with your ****?'



A Dutch organization funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is facing scrutiny over one of its videos featuring children as young as four being asked wildly inappropriate questions about sex and masturbation.

While the Rutgers Foundation is desperately trying to deep-six the video, the right-wing Dutch populist party Forum voor Democratie has drawn attention to its contents in an effort to expose what the group is really up to, reported Reduxx.

Rutgers, like Planned Parenthood in the U.S., claims to be in the business of educating and supporting young people in sexual matters but also advocates for gender ideology and abortion appreciation in schools with the help of other activist groups.

The group states on its website, "We want young people to be free to enjoy their sexuality and relationships, while respecting the rights of others in an inclusive society," admitting to advocating "for progressive language and norm-setting on sexuality education."

Rutgers kicked off an initiative targeting children on March 20 called "What do I like?" as part of a national "Spring Jitters Week" campaign to expand sexual education in primary schools.

"Learning about your body, talking about what you like and a positive self-image. This is the focus this year during the Week of Spring Jitters, an annual project week about relationships, sexuality and resilience in special and primary education," Rutgers wrote on its project page. "We want to make children think about what they like and teach them to express their wishes."

"When children in primary education learn about their bodies, relationships and sexuality from a positive message, they know better what they like and what they don't like," said Elsbeth Reitzema, a so-called sex education expert at Rutgers.

Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan cited Reitzema and her work with Rutgers in an article last year in an effort to stand up her argument that contrary to the claims of conservatives, parental groups, and Republicans, talking to kids about graphic sex acts wasn't a matter of "grooming them to be abused by pedophiles."

Rutgers, along with Khazan's model sex-educator, went into Dutch elementary schools again this spring to provide children with an understanding of sexuality and sex acts from an early age so that they can be "better able to communicate ... their wishes and limits and learn to treat each other more respectfully."

According to Rutgers, "When children of primary school age reach out about sexuality, the conversations most often revolve around making love, fingering and jerking off, the first time, masturbation and kissing."

The teacher-facing page for the initiative contains various videos to show kids, including "giving permission for children" and "first times - cumming."

The specific video that piqued the interest of Dutch anti-groomer groups was entitled "Wat vind ik fijn," or "What do I like?"

Reduxx reported that the video features children as young as four being asked about their sexual proclivities.

In one scene, a 6-year-old boy named Loek appears alongside his gay guardians, one of whom asks, "Do you like it when someone is petting you?"

The boy shakes his head no, then the adult male asks, "And what about being tickled?"

After the boy answers in the affirmative, the man says, "Oh, we'll have to do that every night then before you sleep."

In another scene, a woman talks to a 9-year-old girl about ejaculation and the "nice feeling" she can attain via orgasm. The adult then describes the various parts of female genitalia to the little girl, emphasizing that she will get a "very nice feeling" from rubbing her "little button."

"You can rub it with your finger," stressed the woman.

A 4-year-old boy is pressed about his masturbation routine in another scene.

His alleged mother, asks him, "What about you? Do you ever play with your dick? Do you ever touch your willie?" ... How does that feel? And when do you do that?"

Despite the boy's confusion, the mother lays in with additional questions: "Do you do that when we're eating? ... Why don't you do that in class?"

Another little boy is told in the video to refer to sex as "f***ing or sucking."

\u201cA Dutch youth sexuality charity is under fire for releasing a video showing adults discussing sex and masturbation with young children. \n\nThe Rutgers Foundation has deleted the video and is threatening legal action against those who re-upload it.\n\nREAD: https://t.co/5jKJipuyvy\u201d
— REDUXX (@REDUXX) 1686236044

The video was reportedly taken down just 24 hours after it appeared on Twitter. Rutgers claimed it had removed the video because it had been taken "out of context."

"Unfortunately, there is quite a bit of fake news and misinformation ... going around at the moment," tweeted Rutgers. "We have also just taken a video offline, in which parents are talking to their child. The topics covered in the video are: learning about your body, talking about what you like and setting boundaries."

"We find that the video is being taken out of context by some people online and used to spread misinformation," wrote the organization, citing protection of the children involved as cause.

The right-wing populist part FVD spoke out against both Rutgers' initiative and its video in late March, calling the "sexualization and indoctrination" of children "disgusting."

\u201cJaarlijks ontvangt de Rutgers Stichting miljoenensubsidies voor de 'Week van de Lentekriebels'. Wat gebeurt er met al dat belastinggeld?\n\nOp basisscholen krijgen kinderen vanaf 4 (!) jaar deze hele week te maken met seksualisering en indoctrinatie. Walgelijk. #FVD #lentekriebels\u2026\u201d
— Forum voor Democratie (@Forum voor Democratie) 1679409114

Recognizing that Rutgers' deleted video was revelatory of the group's alleged sexualization of young children, FVD reposted the video to its own YouTube channel with the title, "Deleted video. Shocking sexualization of young children."

According to the Dutch publication Algemeen Dagblad, an FVD spokesman suggested in a voice-over at the end of the video that it was "obvious Rutgers feels caught" and is doing everything it can "to cover [its] dirty tracks," adding that it was matter of public interest to disclose what elementary-school children were being subjected to.

Rutgers reportedly attempted to get the video taken off YouTube, stating, "The parents and children have not given Forum permission to publish the images."

Reduxx reported the sex group is now threatening to sue the FVD unless the video is taken down. At the time of publication, the video was still on YouTube.

TheBlaze recently detailed Tucker Carlson's claims in his most recent Twitter video concerning the apparent societal effort to normalize child sexualization.

"One by one, with increasing speed, our old taboos have been struck down. Those that remain have lost their moral force. Stealing, flaunting your wealth, striking women, smoking marijuana on the street, shameless public hypocrisy, taking other people's money for not working — all of these things" were previously viewed as "unacceptable in America," Carlson said. "Not anymore."

Carlson emphasized that child molestation is now "teetering on the edge of acceptability."

\u201cEp. 2 Cling to your taboos!\u201d
— Tucker Carlson (@Tucker Carlson) 1686261625

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Rutgers Professor Suggests She Wants To ‘Take Out’ White People Before Celebrating Decline In White Birth Rates

Rutgers Professor Suggests She Wants To ‘Take Out’ White People Before Celebrating Decline In White Birth Rates

'The thing I want to say to you is we got to take these motherf-ckers out but like, we can't say that right?' Cooper said.

Rutgers and San Francisco State 9/11 Panel To Feature Terrorist Sympathizers

Rutgers University and San Francisco State University are set to host a discussion panel on the Sept. 11 attacks that will feature speakers with sympathies for terrorists. Several organizations that will cosponsor the event have also praised terrorists and voiced anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views.

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Rutgers University bans unvaccinated senior from attending remote classes



Logan Hollar is a 22-year-old senior at Rutgers University. He's spent the last few years working toward his diploma, and transferred to the New Jersey school in 2020 for his junior year. Because of COVID, he elected to take classes remotely last year from his home in Sandyston, New Jersey — 70 miles from Rugters' New Brunswick campus, NJ.com reported.

The system worked out well for him, so he decided to do this same thing for his senior year and signed up for all virtual classes.

Hollar is also unvaccinated.

This is a problem for the higher-ups at Rutgers, which implemented a first-in-the-nation vaccine mandates for all students attending classes on campus — but not for staff or faculty — so they've banned him from attending any classes and locked him out of his school email account, even though he would be attending remotely and has no desire to step foot on campus.

Hollar, a psychology major, told NJ.com that he's not vaxxed because he doesn't want or need the vaccine.

"I'm not in an at-risk age group," he told the outlet. "I'm healthy and I work out. I don't find COVID to be scary. If someone wants to be vaccinated, that's fine with me, but I don't think they should be pushed."

The problem, NJ.com reported, is that although Hollar was going to take only virtual classes, meaning he does not need to be on campus, he was not part of the school's online program, which is the one part of the school that doesn't require vaccines.

But according to Hollar, the school's literature about vaccine requirements for on-campus classes was confusing at best.

"When they put out the guidance in March, I was reading through all the verbiage, which was if you plan to return to campus, you need to be vaccinated," he said. "I figured I wouldn't be part of that because all my classes were remote."

In fact, he said he was able to access his email last month and actually switched out of a class on Aug. 6.

When asked about the vaccine via a survey from the school, Hollar told the outlet that he ticked a box to say that the vaccine didn't apply to him since he would not be taking classes on campus.

"After submitting the survey, I got no pop-up indication that I still needed the vaccine — like I had seen in the past — and since I was online and the survey said I was all set, I assumed the emails in my inbox pertaining to (the vaccine) must apply to in-person students," he said, according to NJ.com. "This turned out not to be the case."

He said he discovered that his Rutgers accounts were locked when he went to pay his tuition Aug. 27. When he called the school that same day, he was reportedly told without explanation that he had to be vaccinated, even though he was going to be attending class virtually. However, one school representative told him he could request an exemption, NJ.com reported, though that would mean he'd miss three or more weeks of class even if his waiver were approved.

"Days later, I called back since I hadn't received anything," he told NJ.com. "They told me that unfortunately, they had decided that they would not grant waivers for anyone who had put in for them past Aug. 23, even though I was told that I could get one with no problem on the 27th."

The school's FAQ about student vaccinations, NJ.com said, says simply that its policy requires "all students to be fully vaccinated in advance of arriving on campus in the fall."

Which suited Hollar just fine, considering he had no intention to ever visit the campus.

"I don't care if I have access to campus," he said. "I don't need to be there. They could ban me. I just want to be left alone."

Now he's looking at transferring to another university to wrap up his degree.

Hollar's stepfather, Keith Williams, was "dumbfounded" by the situation.

Williams, who is vaccinated, told the outlet, "I believe in science, I believe in vaccines, but I am highly confident that COVID-19 and variants do not travel through computer monitors by taking online classes.

"He chose to remove himself from an on-campus experience so he would not need to be vaccinated," Williams added. "Now to be removed and shut down from his Rutgers email and online classes during the start of his senior year seems a bit crazy."

A Rutgers spokeswoman defended the school's position, telling NJ.com, "Since March, we have provided comprehensive information and direction to students to meet vaccine requirements through several communications channels, including our university websites, direct emails, and messages relayed throughout the registration and enrollment processes.

"Registering for classes that are fully remote (synchronous/asynchronous) is not the same as being enrolled in a fully online degree-granting program," she added.