While “purging DEI” may indeed be daunting and distant, that still may be the easy part, because once the diversity crowd has been shown the door, whom do you replace them with?

This project has been going full steam for, as Janice says, at least two generations, really a full adult human lifetime or more. It’s not like there are masses of well-trained scholars out there working other jobs or in cryosleep pods that we can just slide into place once sanity returns.

Intellectual continuity going back centuries has been severed. There’s no manual on how to fix this, and the situation continues to worsen every year as legitimate scholarship fades further from living memory.

While DEI has certainly hurt the hard sciences and retarded their progress, I think they can recover. But how to restore a university history department, when there are no longer real historians? – same question for art history, English, sociology.

I know it’s not as black and white as that, but I don’t think people appreciate how deep the hole we’ve dug, and are still digging, is.