I strongly suspect that the universities in Florida and Texas are little different than my own in this matter. If that results in more diversity, fine. But it is a perversion to make diversity the objective, i.e. to seek to maximize the differences among people in an organization or in society for the purpose of diversity per se. Let's remember that there's not a shred of evidence that the artificially-engineered diversity produced by aggressive racial preference systems has had any positive educational value anywhere. That is bullshit.
Diversity simply is.
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