Last week, a Harvard law professor wrote a column for the school's paper, expressing his strong opposition to DEI. Randall L. Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School, argued in The Harvard Crimson that "the practice of demanding them ought to be abandoned, both at Harvard and beyond." He added, "I am a scholar on the left committed to struggles for social justice. The realities surrounding mandatory DEI statements, however, make me wince." That appeal seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Despite the pleas of the professor, Harvard appears stuck in its identity politics ways.

For instance, the Ivy League university is set to move forward with its segregated commencement ceremonies called "affinity celebrations." National Review reported, "Harvard plans to hold a 'Disability Celebration,' a 'Global Indigenous Celebration,' an 'Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi-American (APIDA) Celebration,' a 'First Generation-Low Income Celebration,' a 'Jewish Celebration,' a 'Latinx Celebration,' a 'Lavender Celebration'—which refers to LGBT students—a 'Black Celebration,' a 'Veterans Celebration,' and an 'Arab Celebration.'"

Notably, Harvard only recently added its Jewish student population to this list shortly after being called out for the omission by Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo. Another observation people made is that Harvard's white students get no such separate celebratory ceremony.

"Harvard DEI is simply out of control," said Divinity School student Shabbos Kestenbaum. He explained that Harvard not only fails to recognize "the harmful ways in which Harvard DEI has contributed to" issues such as "campus antisemitism," but "the university [only] further marginalizes individuals into groups of race, ethnicity, and religion." Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Education and Workforce Committee, agreed. "Graduation ceremonies should unite students," she said. Instead, Harvard is dividing its student body even further by playing into identity politics and radical DEI ideologies."

Joseph Backholm, Family Research Council's senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement, commented to The Washington Stand, "These decisions are rooted in a moral analysis that is focused not on what someone does but on who they are." He explained that under DEI, "Racial discrimination isn't always wrong, it just depends on who is doing it and why. If it's done by the oppressed to the oppressors, then it's good. If it's being done by the oppressors to the oppressed, then it's bad."

He added, "It's the same moral reasoning that results in sympathy for mass murder and mass rape conducted by Hamas. Because they're identified by the Left as the 'oppressed,' their wicked behavior is sanitized as 'resistance.'" What it comes down to, Backholm concluded, is this: "Identity politics not only asks us to prioritize trivial characteristics like sex and ethnicity over meaningful things like character and competency, but it destroys our ability to do basic moral reasoning." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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