Racial preferences for faculty jobs at Texas A& M

 Washington Examiner:

Texas A&M University is being accused of actively discriminating against white and Asian faculty job applicants in a lawsuit filed by a conservative legal organization .

America First Legal filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of Richard Lowery, a professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin who says he is "able and ready" to apply for a job at Texas A&M but that the university's racially preferential hiring system prevents him and other white and Asian men from fairly competing for open positions.
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The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, claims the university "giv[es] discriminatory preferences to female or non-Asian minorities at the expense of white and Asian men" in its hiring practices for faculty positions, a practice the filing says is "patently illegal."

"These discriminatory, illegal, and anti-meritocratic practices have been egged on by woke ideologues who populate the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion offices at public and private universities throughout the United States," the lawsuit says. "The existence of these offices is subverting meritocracy and encouraging wholesale violations of civil-rights laws throughout our nation’s university system."
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DEI is a racist concept masquerading as "fairness."  BTW, it does not apply to the A&M football time where scholarships are given based on the merits of the player.  I think Lowery has a good claim.  I also think the Texas legislature should outlaw DEI.  Everyone should get a shot based on their own merits and not identity politics.