<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1661096159869,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b6-de22-a173-2ffe05de0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1661096159869,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b6-de22-a173-2ffe05de0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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This is not hypothetical. Rather, it is a requirement to take a job at the University of California, Berkeley. Applicants must write a short essay about how much they support the controversial diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy — actually a personal “vow” of one’s enthusiasm for the tenets of critical race theory.
Nearly two years ago, Bryan Caplan accurately and unfavorably compared this process to the anti-Communist oath that Berkeley professors had to take during the McCarthy Era. The worst part, he adds, is that you have to draft it yourself. You will be scored on a 15-point scale for the ideological content of whatever you come up with.
For example, if your vow does not demonstrate sufficient enthusiasm about this racialist ideology, you will receive a low enough score that you are sure not to be hired. For example, here is the rubric for how to get the lowest possible score on “plans for advancing diversity.”
Explicitly states the intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and “treat everyone the same.”So if you adopt the Martin Luther King Jr. standard and judge people by their competence and character, you get smacked with the lowest possible score and you won’t get the job. You get a sense already how this works just from that.
Hell, it isn’t even the MLK standard — it’s the California standard. In 2020, Californians reaffirmed their state constitutional ban on racial discrimination in hiring and college admissions by overwhelmingly rejecting Proposition 16. So now, if you judge people the way California is required by law to judge its students and job applicants, then this California school will not hire you.
Indeed, you can also get the lowest score by stating merely that you “welcome and encourage students of all races, genders and backgrounds,” since that’s “already the minimum expectation of Berkeley faculty.” No, you need to commit to doing something unexpected for diversity, in addition to being an expert on the topic. And no, it isn’t even enough to say, “I was on a committee on diversity for a year.” That specific statement is given as an example of something “brief, vague, nominal, or peripheral,” which again earns you the lowest possible score on the diversity “track record” section of your vow.
Also, don’t you dare make anti-racialist arguments about how it is misguided to restore segregation in the name of diversity. They thought of this one — it explicitly earns the lowest score for “knowledge about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.”
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","_id":"00000182-c0cc-d682-a3ca-f8fd67630000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b92f10002"}”>For example, may state that it’s better not to have outreach or affinity groups aimed at particular individuals because it keeps them separate from everyone else, or will make them feel less valued.
Finally, you cannot avoid kissing the ring with clever dodges about “viewpoint diversity” or diversity of nationalities in your department of field of study. These ideas are again singled out for low scores, because they represent attempts to avoid mindlessly regurgitating racialist ideology.
If you want to work at Berkeley, you must not only accept illegal racial discrimination but accept it with gusto as a condition of your employment with a state that isn’t even allowed to discriminate in such a fashion. Figure that one out.
