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From Pine View Farm by Frank Bell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better,
Republican Thought Police Dept. 0

At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu has a long and thoughtful article about Iowa’s Republican Governor’s attempts to stamp out talk about DEI in the state’s educational institutions. (In case you wondered, the goal of the anti-DEI movement is to pretend that discrimination and bigotry and segregation and slavery never happened and left no legacy.)

She notes that the Iowa governor referred to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order, then observes (emphasis added)

But Trump’s approach has been nothing if not contradictory. He forbids implementing DEI policies at public institutions but has repeatedly singled out Jewish students as deserving of special protection against bias. He has gone so far as to strip funding from Harvard and Columbia universities because of alleged antisemitism in campus protests against Israeli practices toward Palestinians. But he’s said little about the treatment of Palestinians. Trump has booted out migrants and refugees of color, including those legally here, while allowing white South African ones in. The message? Be inclusive toward his chosen groups but exclusionary against others.

I commend the entire piece to your attention.

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August 11, 2025 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Republican Hypocrisy |

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