This is beautiful: a DEI supporter becomes so frustrated with the reality of DEI that he blurts out the truth, then immediately apologizes and blames the Right. This is the archetype of the "white male ally"—a figure of supreme cowardice and self-deception.
We can think of Walsh as the millennial version of Jason Stanley. The difference in outcome is generational.
Stanely can play the "white male ally" because he already earned tenure, in a pre-woke environment. Walsh sends all the same ideological signals, but is rejected. He made a fatal miscalculation: the "white male ally" routine is purely defensive, a pull-up-the-drawbridge maneuver for older scholars.
Walsh's frustrated truth-telling stems from the fact that he is intelligent and would have easily earned a faculty spot even ten years ago. But his ultimate problem is not his scholarship; it is his flagrant self-abasement. Even the woke do not respect the "white male ally."
I feel sympathy for all scholars and professionals who are unjustly denied opportunity because of DEI. My one exception: those who loudly support DEI.
What did y'all think DEI meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
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