103 Things That Higher Ed Declared Racist In 2024

Via The College Fix,

Racism is the intentional mistreatment of someone on the basis of their race – at least in the normal world. But in academia, racism is anything producing disparities, according to Professor Ibram Kendi.

What follows is a long list of people, places, actions, and other things declared racist this year by higher ed, though a few came from K-12.

If something needs “anti-racist” action or “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” it follows it must be racist, or else it would not need correction.

(A full list of articles can be found here).

Academic disciplines:

• Chemistry
• Classics
• Evolutionary biology
• Engineering
• Immunology
• Math
• STEM in general
• Twenty different departments at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Actions:

• Accusing a black student of plagiarism
• Banning DEI
• Being Asian but romantically interested in white people
• Course evaluations
• Criticizing a black female reporter
• Criticizing plagiarism
• Marriage/being married
• Mentioning a black female congresswoman has fake eyelashes
• Murder
• Not pronouncing Kamala Harris’ name right
• Not voting for Kamala Harris
• Opioid crisis
• Opposing DEI
• Opposing oil and gas restrictions to fight climate change
• Pollution
• Questioning Kamala Harris’ racial identity
• Romance
• “Traditional grading”
• Voter registration
• Voting for Trump
• White people running in shorts
• White people rapping

Beliefs:

• Being pro-life/pointing out high abortion rates for black women
• Christianity
• Colorblindness
• Nostalgia

Career fields:

• Counseling
• Ecological farming
• Education
• Dentistry
• Disaster response
• Geology
• Law enforcement
• Medicine
• Ocean sciences
• Nursing
• Surgical oncology

Entertainment/culture:

• Dolly Parton’s free book program
• Dressing as a Native American at a Kansas City Chiefs game
• Liking Taylor Swift
• Michaelangelo’s “Creation of Adam”
• Paintings of British countryside
• Porcelain
• Telling a Japanese professor about a good sushi restaurant

Food:

• Fried chicken
• Milk

People:

• Ben Shapiro
• Conservatives
• Donald Trump
• Duke University sports fans
• Nikki Haley
• Rapper Tom MacDonald
• Vivek Ramaswamy
• White people

Places:

• Coeur D’Alene, Idaho
• Columbia University
• Greenhouses
• Israel
• Lake Merritt, California parking lot
• Northern Idaho
• Pennsylvania public universities
• Sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms
• Swimming pools
• Thousands of streets that use allegedly offensive terms
• University of Michigan

Words:

• “Anglo-Saxon”
• “Blacklist’
• “DEI hire’
• “Guru’
• “Illegal alien”
• “Minorities”
• “Mob rule”
• “Peanut gallery”
• “Pow wow”
• “Tribal knowledge”
• “Whitelist”

…to name but a few.