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A group at the University of Minnesota which dubs itself “Whose Diversity” is demanding that the college “admit it is a product of the evil actions of colonial Americans,” and as such must implement numerous remedies. Some of these … reparations include gender-neutral lavatories in every campus building, and a “faith-neutral ‘meditation and healing’ room on every campus.” Campus Reform reports:

The list of changes gives the school two years to have at least two “faculty members of color” in every single department who are “engaging in critical race and ethnic studies scholarship with a social justice emphasis.” It also demands that students with “historically marginalized backgrounds” have the opportunity to be involved in hiring these faculty.

Further demands include hiring more “medical providers of historically marginalized identities whose work is rooted in social justice” and increasing the number of “non-white” students to meet very specific proportions.

In terms of “restructuring curriculum,” the group orders the school to force every student to take at least one course on “gender non-conforming issues,” and offer “substantially more” courses on “marginalized peoples.”

In case those courses are not enough to constantly remind students about the plight of “marginalized communities,” the list also demands that the school erect a display of historical documents and photographs chronicling their activism to be placed in a “centrally located space” on campus.

“Whose Diversity” thus far has the support of over 700 students, profs, alumni, and other university faculty. But it does not want to become an officially sanctioned university group because that would make it “complicit in reproducing a homogenized notion of diversity.” Or something.

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