Those people supporting it, many of them know what a disaster it will be. They're just completely cowardly about it. You've been a professor in the University of California system for several decades now. That system has been in the vanguard in terms of advancing ethnic studies and deconstructionist philosophies. Ethnic Studies programs affect campus life in every way.
Universities are fragile institutions.
They should be serving truth and knowledge and if everybody is doing their best to do that they just about manage to do it. You can get one scholar so personally commited to a thesis that he's blind to any faults it has because he's so personal prestigious commited to himself. Or you can get a student who's the favorite student of a particular professor being forgiven for rather weak performance just because he's the favorite student. If you put into a fragile situation like that a brand new very large motive, that motive being what's conducive to the advantage of women or the advantage of a particular ethnic group, that's it. The balance just suppenly swings out of control and the intellectual motive, the persuit of truth and knowledge, is just in practice, we know now, just swamped.