The latest example of “woke culture” sold as “diversity” comes from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, which recently sent an email to faculty members requiring them to add a statement to their syllabus promising to commit to diversity while avoiding anything that is “troubling or causes offense” to students.
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh received the e-mail to faculty from a reliable source and posted it on Reason. The email explains that the university’s diversity committee had come up with the syllabus statement and asked faculty to review the final draft and provide comments or feedback (the deadline for such was last week). The lengthy and contradictory statement reads (emphasis original):
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