Why should there be shame in DEI?

Not one "apparently undercover video" but a "second undercover video" show University of Iowa employees talking about DEI. Frightening! How could they?

The videos prompted Brenna Bird to investigate a complaint filed by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

That led to UI President Wilson writing that the university campus has "'unwavering commitment to upholding state and federal laws."

Should the university commit to "law" that taints, bullies, and abolishes diversity, equity and inclusion and the people who care about these all-encompassing ways to live among one another?

Anti-DEI laws are thought-police mind control, sourced from Americans. From Republican-led elected officials and their minders, Project 2025 for example. Generally speaking, people who design a world of mind control reflects us. What does anti-DEI law say about us? That by supporting diversity and difference we are unsupportive of white Americans?

Is this simply hurt feelings? Not to my thinking.

Wilson admits that "'For more than a year, the University of Iowa has been working diligently to comply with directives from the Iowa Board of Regents … that require us to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion …"

What a perverse statement. We do this to ourselves: follow directives that by design are meant to close our minds. There is no shame in equity, diversity, inclusion; why should there be? President Wilson missed her chance, more than a year ago, to stand up to "requirements" that by design are Orwellian mind control.

Gretchen Reeh-Robinson

Mount Vernon