NC State: Maybe it’s rotten to the core

Back in 2021, when I was reporting new blacklist stories every single day during the intolerant madness after the COVID panic and the death of George Floyd, I posted the blacklisting and attempted destruction of a tenured professor at North Carolina State University, merely because Stephen Porter had publicly questioned the wisdom and soundness of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies.

Though administrators tried hard to push Porter out, he managed to survive, and is still teaching at NC State. Sadly however his attempt for justice failed, his lawsuit against this harassment and slander campaign eventually being dismissed by the courts.

Porter however decided he couldn’t simply close the book on the matter. For example, the leftist effort at NC State to silence all debate during this same time resulted in one university employee committing suicide. He couldn’t take the constant harassment, the doxxing of his home address, the vandalism at his home, and the slanders accusing him of being a racist and “white supremacist” wherever he went on campus, all based on no evidence at all.

Moreover, even though the board of governors of the North Carolina university system in 2023 established an “institutional neutrality” policy that forbid its colleges from requiring new students or faculty to endorse DEI or compel them to obey the pronoun demands of others, Porter kept finding NC State violating that policy, in word and deed.

He decided that he needed to fight back.

I concluded that the most effective approach was to take action myself. As a result, I recently filed a complaint with the Board of Governors, alleging that NC State is violating the institutional neutrality policy in multiple ways.

His complaint listed numerous places where the college administration and faculty had continued to enforce DEI. Its strategic plan still demanded the college “champion a culture of equity, diversity, inclusion.” A search of the university’s official website found “1,700 results for ‘DEI’ and 4,750 results for ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ many from administrative websites.” Those results also included documents that still “require[d] faculty and staff to ‘demonstrate [their] commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.'” Furthermore the university still required faculty to use a student’s preferred pronouns, even though this rule directly violated its “institutional neutrality” policy.

Porter also found that, though the college’s DEI office has supposedly been closed, its Office of Equal Opportunity still maintained a website dedicated to DEI. He also found the university still posted “land acknowlegments” that claim all land owned by the college was stolen from indigenous people. As Porter notes,

Land acknowledgments are inherently political statements. … By posting a land acknowledgment that exclusively recognizes Native Americans as former landowners [ignoring all others], the university implicitly endorses a particular historical narrative, suggesting that their ownership requires acknowledgment as a form of reparative justice.

At this time it isn’t clear if Porter will have any more success with this complaint as he did with his lawsuit.

I unfortunately think he will fail, even if the NC board of governors agrees with him entirely and forces the college to shut down all of these policy violations.

It is like wack-a-mole. Even when state legislatures ban DEI, administrators and faculty rename it and move to different more obscure places so it is harder to spot. Even when there is success and the DEI administrative goons are removed, it still permeates the course curriculum, pushed by a legion of leftist professors. Even when one or two professors are removed or fired, still nothing changes, as almost all the faculty who remain still spout in their classrooms the anti-American, Marxist, and bigoted opinions that dominate almost all of academia today.

It seems to me increasingly that the only way our now bankrupt academic community can be reformed is not by reforming it but by completely shutting it down. Either we fire the entire teaching and administrative staffs at these colleges and put in new people (as Trump is now attempting in the federal government), or we close these colleges down completely and start from scratch to establish new institutions completely free from this poison.

These are the mindless automatons who run our
universities today. Maybe this “academia” ain’t worth saving.

The halfway measures we are doing so far however are not working. Too many people who run our universities want to teach leftist propaganda and bigoted hate. Too many are actually ignorant buffoons who can’t think critically and really know nothing about the history of our country and its fundamental principles of freedom, individual responsibility, and private enterprise.

All they know is that they hate America, its white population, and want it all destroyed.

Trying to reform such things just isn’t going to work, because the bad stuff is too deeply ingrained. As long as these people remain so will the cesspool.

More radical and fearless action is required. It is time to tear these places down completely, and build anew.