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Commentary By Ilya Shapiro, Jesse Arm

Conservatives Have No Interest in Censorship

Governance, Education, Culture Race, Higher Ed

Mr. Chaffin cites “critics” of our colleague Christopher Rufo, who claim that eliminating DEI bureaucracies is about curtailing discussions of race. This is a serious distortion. Our reforms aim to restore intellectual diversity and color-blind equality by addressing the administrative bloat in DEI offices that mandate ideologically tinged diversity training and stifle debate. By ending practices such as identity-based discrimination and compulsory, politically coercive diversity statements, they protect the rights of professors and students to engage freely on all topics, including race, while ensuring that universities uphold their missions as places of open inquiry.

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Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here. Jesse Arm is the director of external affairs and presidential initiatives at the Manhattan Institute.

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