Good news in ASU case

As you know, ASU agreed to no longer require DEI quizzes in their required DEI training. They have officially certified that now. They still maintain that the training does not violate the law. But here is the good news: They have sent even more of the content from these training videos and it provides some staggeringly bad material.

If you remember, ASU complained that the Goldwater Institute had misled the court by not providing all of the material from the DEI modules. Goldwater replied by correctly pointing out that they had supplied everything ASU sent them from their Freedom of Information Act. In other words, ASU supplied the material and then complained it was incomplete.

So ASU has now done two things: They have supplied all of the material and they have claimed they “carefully currated” the material. They have owned it. Now let’s look at some of the new content. It revolves around composing about white “cisgendered” mean.

“So historically we could think about women not gaining the right to vote until the 19th Amendment in the early 20th Century. But then we can also think about that our organizations that we work in, right? Do we have diversity of leadership or is it primarily heterosexual, cisgender, white males who run organizations, right, and set the norms for the culture, how one should dress, how one should speak.”

As I’ve been pointing out from the beginning of this case, this is racism. To evaluate a person based on their race and then imply that it is a problem they run an organization because of their race is the essence of racism. That racist claim also lets them get away with asserting that there is “systematic racism” due to circular reasoning.

“So homophobia and anti-gay bias can look all different kinds of ways. So they can be something really what seems like maybe innocuous. So maybe on a form the gender or sex options are male and female. And so that’s a kind of subtle implicit kind of bias that there are only two options.”

Employee training at ASU requires you to believe that the idea there are only two genders is a homophobic anti-gay bias. However, Genesis 1 in the Bible teaches that there are only two genders. Therefore, ASU’s employee training claims that the Bible is homophobic anti-gay bias. All Jews and Christians who believe Genesis 1 are, therefore, homophobic. That counts as religious discrimination.

You can see why this training is so problematic. I will continue to share new content in future posts. The next step is for ASU to admit it was wrong to require this training (that ASU says it carefully curated) and agree to take it down. ASU can then offer compensation to the employees it harmed with this required training.