What Victor Davis Hanson has said about Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Hanson says he does not expect the country to return to the racial politics of the years after George Floyd's death.

“I don't think we're going to go back to that aberration after George Floyd for four or five years. I just don't think it's going to happen”

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Hanson says professors privately admit to inflating grades out of fear of being statistically accused of racism.

“I don't want to be statistically accused of being a racist when particular people don't get the grade that they like”

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Hanson argues that racial grievance ideology is imposed from the top down by media and educators rather than arising from the grassroots.

“This is a top-down media, academics, professors, K-12, who create these ideologies”

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