Bills that ban unfair treatment based on someones, race, religion, ethnicity or gender in high education have been proposed the Kentucky legislature. But now college students at Eastern Kentucky University are protesting. I’ve had a chance to talk with sponsors of these bills. And their goal isn’t to try to hurt anyone, but it is to make sure that everyone is treated fairly at Kentucky colleges and universities. As it is, identity politics are being used to give preferential treatment to some groups over other groups. And this is simply wrong. If the college students protesting understood this, they’d realize that pushing back against DEI is a good thing, as it embraces the American ideal of equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of what they look like or believe.
