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Matt Burgess's avatar

Hi Lee! I went down a bit of a rabbit hole the other day trying to understand the context around your argument about civil rights conspiracy being a felony under 241 and why the Trump administration invokes it in EOs regarding antisemitism but not those involving discrimination. I think the difference is that case law historically supports the 241 felony classification *only* in cases where the conspiracy involved violence or intimidation of someone trying to exercise their civil rights. (My read of the language of 241 supports that interpretation too.) So, violent protesters who assault someone for speaking in support of Israel, for example, would be prosecutable under 241, but administrators who conspired to engage in race-based hiring would not. Let me know if I have any of that wrong! If I don't, it might be worth a clarification, so people don't think that all the university admins who conspired to discriminate (while contemptible) deserve to spend a decade in prison.

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Spencer's avatar

Great breakdown. I've witnessed alot of the small conspiracies you describe.

I'm a little more open to the idea that widespread adoption was tinged with conspiracy. It took off so fast in so many places with identical language, cultural norms, unspoken subtext, and staffing from the same few academic institutions. I haven't tracked any of this down, but I have to think there were a few influential but quiet administrative conferences or academic consultancies driving the adoption behind the scenes.

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Yves's avatar

Lee, I like your article. I'm somewhat surprised that you did not mention that DEI was invented to get around legislative bans on hiring quotas. Of course, you illustrate this well with the example of Michigan.

Are you familiar with this article?:

Steven Brint: The UC’s Corner-Office Revolutionary. Quillette, April 9, 2024

In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California

https://archive.ph/JpFGj

It would be wonderful if the Trump admin would bring some legal cases against people involved in illegal hiring. This seems to be the only way to make universities stop doing this.

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Yves's avatar

Lee, are you familiar with this guy's work?: John D. Sailor, director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute

https://manhattan.institute/person/john-d-sailer

For instance, on Feb 6 2025, he published a piece entitled "OSU Pushed for Discriminatory Recruiting Practices, New Video Shows" (OSU = Ohio State University)

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Lee Jussim's avatar

Replying to both comments here.

1. On DEI and quotas. You probably have seen it already but its here:

https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-downsides-of-dei

Can't do everything in every post...

2. Ha! Sailer and I are in pretty close touch. I have a slew of his articles in the essay under 1.

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That_guy's avatar

Apparently Orchestras across the western world have gone from 90% white males to a much more diverse group. This was done using the only DEI method that actually works: Blinding.

Blind CVs

Blind auditions

Easily done in academia. Don’t deal with cognitive biases by adding more on the other side of the scale, deal with them by removing the opportunity for biases to occur.

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Joe Horton's avatar

Unless it's changed recently, the ~legal~ definition of a conspiracy is a two-part act: first, two or more people discuss the commission of a crime. Not yet a conspiracy. Secondly, those people "take a step in furtherance" of said crime. They have now conspired to commit the crime. Note that the planned crime itself has not yet been committed.

Example: you and I talk about turning over a gas station. Great idea; we can get some walking around money. We've not yet conspired. But as soon as we "case the joint," we are provably guilty of conspiring to commit robbery.

Other definitions may exist, but the legal one is what you have to take to court.

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(Don't Respond to) Rick's avatar

If you put your mind to it, anything can be a conspiracy. Not just something asinine or ill-considered.

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Darren Gee's avatar

Excellent piece Lee. Here in the UK things are increasingly more blatant with regards to EDI (a British re-ordering of DEI) due to there being no SCOTUS decision and no fundamental constitutional bulwark against preferential hiring.

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Gail's avatar

The UN Agenda 2030/WEF Great Reset/ WHO Pandemic Treaty/ Rockefeller Lockstep / Build Back Better isn’t a “ conspiracy theory “ about a NWO. It is a decades in the making conspiracy to create the Brave New World that Huxley created in his work of pure fiction… that by 1957, he feared was becoming reality and in 1961, was certain it had been used as a playbook.

Search Aldous Huxley/Mike Wallace Interview 1958 and Aldous Huxley Interview/France/1961… and then ask yourself if DEI is a conspiracy.

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Sadredin Moosavi's avatar

I am not sure that the question of whether DEI was a conspiracy is really that relevant. DEI is much like the Hitler's final solution in that those who were paying attention knew full well what was being implemented even if particular individual steps and timelines might have been kept somewhat low profile. The reality is also far worse that Lee suggests. While the term DEI may not have been common until the last decade or so...systemic discrimination in hiring on the basis of race and gender in academia goes back to the 1980's if not earlier. It was also wide spread affecting K-12 and academic institutions at all levels across the country. One can argue on the basis of the evidence that no academic hire made since 1980 can truly be said to have been based on merit. This does not mean that every non white male hired since 1980 is unqualified for their position....but it does mean that there is a strong reason to question whether they were actually the most qualified person for the positions they have held in academia. It also is a strong argument for stripping academic institutions of the ability to do their own hiring going forward while, potentially, dismissing the entire academic workforce in favor of new hires not tainted by affirmative action and DEI.

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Tian Wen's avatar

If I understood Lee’s post correctly, it is relevant that there were conspiracies because it enables the DoJ to press felony charges against the conspirators. If one wants to make sure DEI doesn’t make a comeback when the political winds change, that could be a pretty powerful tool.

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Seth Schwartz's avatar

In 2006, a university whose name we all know (but I won’t identify them) posted a position for which only Black and Hispanic candidates would be considered. I know because my colleague asked me to spread the word informally, but not to identify her as the source of the information. She told me the university knew that what they were doing was illegal, but they were doing it anyway.

A colleague of mine in a state where DEI is banned told me they are doing it anyway, just calling it something else.

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Lee Jussim's avatar

Although IDK exactly how widespread this was, I think it was pretty common -- even if it often went unsaid completely.

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D. Malcolm Carson's avatar

I think this misses some context: explicit preferences have never been generally legal in the employment setting. The only exception to that rule was as a remedy for proven discrimination in the particular institution at issue, and that's almost never true for any of these institutions. So, no, they never engaged in the kinds of discrimination that were the subject of the Harvard/UNC case. But yes, it's also true that they explicitly pushed things as far in that direction as possible, and informally, you can be sure that nearly everyone "got the message". Proving it will be another matter, but it's likely going to be a "target-rich environment" for the Trump DOJ and other groups.

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Prof. Fred Nazar's avatar

DEI is still a global conspiracy being implemented all over the world by the shadow global government!

What’s your best way to wake-up those who didn’t yet?

The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!

What’s your experience about asking for an opinion on the following topics?

Why is food poisoning legal? (Rumsfeld forced the FDA approval of Aspartame/Nutrasweet)

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Your phone attacking with ultrasonic booms?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sound-of-silence-challenge

How could a father get 20 million dollars from the Government?

A 20 sec video of a baby with vax seizures?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the

Your opinion about Big Pharma scandals?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government

Ready for anti-COVIDiot pills?

Did you know that Fauci admitted that there was no scientific basis for social distancing?

https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/04/fauci-admits-there-was-no-scientific-evidence-for-six-foot-social-distancing-rule/

That the CDC admitted that masking was useless against COVID?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211230231436/https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/26/over-50-scientific-studies-conclude-masks-do-nothing-to-prevent-the-spread-of-illness-so-why-do-people-keep-claiming-they-work/

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-28-cdc-admits-masks-totally-useless-against-covid.html

That you’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that lockdowns didn’t work and worse, killed people by stopping those with cancer or heart conditions from getting testing and treatment

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

Could you please explain why no Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully applying them? Was it because a successful cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal vaccines?

http://c19early.com

http://bit.ly/research2000

Should every single vaxxed on the planet be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada?

Failed again? Show 10 secs in the middle of this video (who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you)

https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8

(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)

9/11: two "planes", yet 8 towers down. WTC7 imploded, free falling on its footprint, in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach as well as the unblemished Deutsche Bank. All 7 World Trade Center towers and that bank needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center...

The “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings.

The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/107-911

There's a plan to slow-murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by 200 infiltrated FBI mason agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

In 2022, the same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband millions of Brazilians against the stolen elections through the rigged voting machines owned by mason Soros:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us

Weaponization of migration to destroy nations

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-migration

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/45-million-human-barbies

Elections: bought or stolen? Both!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2024-elections-bought-or-stolen

Free 100 redpill movies and documentaries:

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- Since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population by adding hCG to infertilize women: lab-detected in 30 countries, and overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” (tampering) by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas). Check SoundChoice.org or videos.

- Excess deaths in the first 2 years: 40 million people killed by the lethal injections... so far. COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/you-are-anti-haccine

The COVID vax infertility bomb will explode in 10-20 years, when the haxxed children grow up.

- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:

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- Elon's top secret: EVs cause cancer

Go green with gasoline!

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1. No one denies that man affects the weather, but science disagrees with the official narrative.

Prehistoric data from ice cores proves that temperature rise precedes carbon release in the atmosphere, not the other way around.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/best-scientific-sources-to-debunk

2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts, and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with satellite and Weather Radars’ Electro-Magnetic Frequencies.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack

3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing crop/food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of us.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/carbon-reparations

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/climate-deaths

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/killing-me-softly-with-green-songs

- Apart from sin-empowered demons, what is their main source of power? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.

Taking down central banking doesn't solve the problem. Their source of free endless money is counterfeiting, fractional reserve banking and financial instruments (e.g. derivatives, debt over debt, compound interest above real growth, etc.). Also, insider information, sabotage, infiltration, manufactured news and events to create profitable market-movements.

This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: the SSS (Satanic Secret Societies such as masonry) create trillions out of thin air and launder them through their Banks, foundations, and foreign loans and “aid”, with which they buy puppeticians and seats in the boards of the Federal Reserve (the only private-run Central Bank in the world), judiciary, corporations, media, healthcare, universities, foundations, political parties, etc.

The masons’ worst nightmare is that the daydreaming majority wakes up, finds out their crimes, and seek justice. We are a million to one. Until they achieve the CBDC digi-tatorship, they are walking on a tight rope.

We've got a very small window of opportunity to fight or ... die (they want to murder 95% of us).

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

Who’s got THAT kind of power?: to vanish a ratified Amendment!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sss-for-dummies

Who are The Powers That SHOULDN'T Be ?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/criminal-intent

https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/who-is-they/

Why mason LBJ killed JFK?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/lbj-killed-jfk

Weaponization of Justice

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-justice

Illuminati David Rockefeller, finest quotes:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Confessions of ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald

Illuminati Attali, finest quotes:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes

Chisholm, father of the WHO’s global pedophilia

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/brock-chisholm-father-of-the-whos

Ex mason Serge Abad-Gallardo:

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

Please share, not the articles, but the information! I'm expendable. Saving the free world, is not!

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Lee Jussim's avatar

Sorry, but you're comment is almost completely irrelevant to the post. Please re-read the commenting guidelines. As a first offense, I am going to leave it up, but please do not do this again; it is grounds for me deleting it.

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