What The Hell Happened to DEI? I Glenn Loury at Bucknell University

[@GlennLouryclips]

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[@212ntruesdale]

DEI looked good on paper, but was unworkable in a society that intrinsically values the best and brightest.

[@chazletner6882]

I would like to why we aren't hearing more this common sense speech !!! I have so much respect for this man thank you

[@gheller2261]

Nothing annoys me more than when someone refers to what another says as "common sense." It's only common sense because you agree. Reasonable minds can differ on this issue, but the reason for the belief must actually be reasonable.

[@clemfarley7257]

I think he has a reasonable basis for his belief, don’t you agree?

[@dianebrown5448]

Every college needs Professors ( more than one) like this. He is honest and doesnt pull any punches, no sugar coating just the truth.

[@ianl5882]

This man has both a warm heart and an incredibly insightful mind. What a clear thinker.

[@jonathanhathaway7796]

The schools in the inner city of Providence RI got a poor rating years ago, and rather than work at bringing grades up their solution was to simply give the kids a pass. If you can't do math or read, how are you going to budget your finances or read a document that you might be signing? They are dooming a generation

[@dennisdose5697]

Black students from intact families generally do well. 70% single parent homes has to change or the problem remains. Creating true accessibility to school choice won't hurt either.

[@Angelthedog]

Two for two there.

[@terencem723]

Yes. But, BP don't want to hear this. It's whitey's fault. Always! I am Black. I cannot tell you how many other Black people believe you can build a strong and vibrant race with low family formations and single mothers. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

[@zarbins]

My sense, as a former Democrat, is that they are doing everything they can to keep black families from functioning and ensuring school choice is not an option.

[@dennisdose5697]

@zarbins Prosperity could destroy the voting block. Can't have that. This last election gives some hope that they are waking up. The teachers unions also own the party.

[@terencem723]

@ I agree. Yet, we (Black people) still vote 90%+ for Dems. Insane!!!!

[@Peter7966]

Brilliant... Raise the bar, for all. Lower the bar, for none. Find ways to help those who are disadvantaged to compete and achieve.

[@fredwoodson6405]

God bless you Glenn. The work you are doing is not easy.

[@mohamedgoldstein5565]

Thank you Glenn!

[@zogjones]

“Unacceptable.” Glenn is the best.

[@777jones]

Glenn is a good man and a worthy role model.

[@brianrajala7671]

Individuals like Dr Thomas Sowell, Dr Walter Willams (now deceased) and other important Black visionaries have been making these points for years but ignored because our media is subscribed to the false messages of Al Sharpeton or Jesse Jackson instead.

[@tommyryan1311]

Youre brilliant Glenn. Excellent speech

[@1k1ngst0n]

great discussion. Glenn is the man! affirmative action is hard to pass up. it's the easy button to get into college.

[@YourBestFriendforToday]

Solid as usual!

[@avisnubia]

For generations of us who made it without DEI, thank you.

[@tinkerble007]

Brilliantly said

[@immortaltyger1569]

Glenn - thanks for your video and for sharing your thoughts!

[@vanities7374]

Optics are more important to so many, Dr. Loury.

[@lalva14]

In LAUSD they call it “support” as in I have to support kids with a 3rd grade reading level in AP Lit although they do no work.

[@mikelogan3816]

It's called the soft bigotry of low expectations

[@ChollieD]

One of George W. Bush's best lines.

[@pep590]

And it is ALSO the Hard Bigotry as to what it does to White\European and Asian Americans. Extremely reduced admittance.

[@KemetledAfrica]

​@@pep590They make up the majority at university

[@scottmitchell1974]

Not a single wrong word. I want to see somebody refute any of that.

[@assumity]

Brilliant man. Glenn articulates issues of race in America so profoundly and with such great insight and humanity.

[@neilrichardson7454]

How in the hell isn't this viral 😊

[@arnoldgibaldi6779]

Sounds like you’re against affirmative action. Well said professor. Thank you.

[@DMAN-o2e]

Thank you Mr. Loury, thank you for accepting affirmative action. I appreciate you feel it's acceptable to discriminate against others(whites). So you're basically saying it's ok to affirm a person over myself, even if I'm more qualified. Think that doesn't make people bitter? We''re finally hearing the stories from the past 40 years of working class and poor whites(males), who've watched as they were forsaken and paid the pound of flesh over an issue they had nothing to do with, and being working class and poor, received no privilege over. If you want to continue to support affirmative action, make sure going foreword, it only discriminates against rich & upper middle white people people. Maybe then I'll start to feel less bitter after decades of being told as a white male from a poor family "I need not apply".

[@fadsa342]

I would argue that lowering the bar would not but a different type of bar would. If you take a kid who worked two jobs, played sports, volunteered, was socially active and passed every AP course available at their school but scored an 1150 then she may do better with help than the kid who got a perfect SAT score especially if you give the 1150 student support including study skills they may have never received. Blacks often end up at the wrong side of academic measures because as a monolithic group we deal with negative members who don't share the culture of the higher achievers. We also far too often have situations where even the higher achievers lack exposure to some of the very tools that would help them achieve more

[@NA-oo4ls]

Many will disagree with me, but in my view every promising black student that does gain well-earned admission to elite institutions but ends up in a “black studies” or other activist major also contributes to racial disparities. There are far fewer diversionary majors for more successful groups, which reinforces their success.

[@FactCheckerGuy]

While we'd all like to believe this, it is attractive nonsense. The kid with 1150 might make a great sales person, office manager, nurse or middling lawyer, but the kid will the perfect SAT will easily outperform the 1150 in any endeavor that requires real smarts, such as engineering, being a physician or getting a PhD in a serious subject.

[@scottmitchell1974]

​@@FactCheckerGuyYep! Compare the hardworking 1150 to a "skate-by" 1150, not to a 1400, 1500, 1600. They aren't even in the same ballpark.

[@sgtbill1775]

Keep lobbing those truth grenades

[@lloydcady7231]

The biggest problem starts at the public schools. Union teachers are by no means the best in California the rank at 40th in a nation I imagine ones in Chicago rack down or at the bottom of the barrel too in New York City are taking a dive. Unions teachers are afraid of charter schools, which make them look bad very bad.

[@fadsa342]

California is the largest state and extremely diverse. Comparing state to state is often apples to oranges

[@RICKRATT1]

A stable home environment is so critical to a child’s development. Especially a 2 parent family unit that is parenting in a productive way. But teachers bear responsibility too. Progressive ideas are not going to lead to positive outcomes.

[@tmactable]

DEI is alive and well in much of corporate America and in our public schools

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

I am lucky to have discovered Glenn a decade ago. Along with John McWorter (well, I discovered John 20 years ago). We need to stop pretending that urban government run schools are terrible and doing a dis-service to black and brown kids. I live in Cali. We spend $34K per kid in this state (total budget divided by number of kids in the system). I am on the board of a suburban private Christian K thru 8 school. We charge $8K. Our teachers earn 20 to 30% less than the local public schools and don’t have lifetime medical nor retirements. Our kids graduate 1 to 2 grades above the acceptable government schools in the area. As a result of my experience, I am for vouchers. Allow the parent to move. Their kids. To an acceptable school. Revoke the public schools right to continue.

[@pep590]

They bring DIFFERENT color to the table. WE ALL HAVE COLOR!!!

[@AnAn___]

Link to the full video?

[@Sotol811]

based

[@Chris_Altschuler]

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[@BrianVeroso]

Excuse me, for real? How is that even possible? I've been struggling financially. How did you achieve this?

[@YoldsDiko]

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[@Chris_Altschuler]

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[@Chris_Altschuler]

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[@entatrosmiati4687]

This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words. 🙏 I receive this for my household

[@Len-w1q]

Strange how DEI and Affirmative Action supporters don't want transparency of who exactly benefit from these discriminate policies. Make all the DEI and Affirmative Action beneficiaries known to the public.

[@noct7873]

Hey Glen, the 25 second intro / “coming up in this video” section at the beginning feels really unnecessary for a 6 minute video that we have all already clicked on. I know these are very trendy on YT just now but it seems a little frustratingly redundant. Love the channel keep up the good work.

[@elingrome5853]

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[@elingrome5853]

Re. DEI.... what did Mark Twain say about "reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"... ?

[@tomhalla426]

The real issue is that K-12 schools suck, and have a long history of teaching to the low end of their student body. There is a push against high standards for both the faculty and the students, and Critical Theory is a convenient excuse for incompetent or burnout teachers. And additional funding seems to go to administrators, not classrooms.

[@RemnTheteth]

True DEI is having conversations with people that give us perspective, allowing us to remove our own biases after consideration. It's the slow march of a non-violent, rainbow coalition of people speaking to internal cultural change, working together to lift all boats, not just some. The current DEI and Black Lives Matter movements make it impossible to talk about poverty at large, crime at large - which effect every demographic. And the true lesson of those who have been persecuted is not to execute 'eye for an eye justic'e, such as baking more discrimination into our laws that favor certain groups, but through understanding that the biggest F-You to those who would abuse their power is to instead build something better than you were handed. And we can't do that effectively while taking our fingers and pointing at everyone we disagree with, or forcing our point of view through policy. It simply creates more division, more discrimination. Less tolerance and respect. I'm a progressive, not left or right. I believe in change and evolution as a fundamental aspect of our lives, culturally and biologically. I believe in attempting to do what is right for all, not, through vindication of one's currently held beliefs, or ostracizing people who don't agree with you. We collectively need to change. Or the very people who feel righteous in their quest will become the thing they pretend to hate. People see me as white, but that's not who I am. But it seems many people have boiled their identities into simply skin color, and sex/sexual preference - none of which we control - and then look out into the world seeing only what they've been taught to believe. People should be judged by how they comport themselves in reality, how they treat people, the clarity of their thought. And the well-intentioned left is simply falling into the same basal populist, my way or the highway trap.

[@elingrome5853]

"True DEI" doesnt sound much different to "The current DEI" tbh ;)

[@tomambrosio5527]

Support for first-generation college students (or for HS students without college-graduating students), it would have more widely accepted and justifiable even in the long term -- and would have captured more African-Americans anyway. However, the choice was to make it about race and divide people. Now, the baby is being thrown out with the bath water.

[@lgude]

Oh by all means let’s have the optics, as Hillary has pointed out “perception is everything” right?

[@beth3535]

Your use of ‘for’ the African American population is where things sometimes get tangled.

[@jedsparks7324]

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[@gheller2261]

Actually, Mr. Louis demonstrates a lack of understanding of affirmative action in modern times. Yes, in the 70s, 80s and 90s a bigger part of it was admitting students with much lower test scores. And multiple studies demonstrated that those kids who went to "elite" colleges did well and faired much better than similar students who attended "lesser" colleges generally closer to home. So affirmative action actually worked. But over the last 20 years, it generally has not been about lesser credentials but, rather, if there is one seat and they are looking at 2 applicants with similar profiles and one is white and from an upper middle class or wealthy suburb and the other is a black or Hispanic kid, they will go with the latter. And I am 100% fine with it. The real issues these days is less about college admissions and more about the job market.

[@gheller2261]

Louri. I hate autocorrect.

[@brianmartin4035]

Glenn must be ignored, too much common sense and the wrong narrative.

[@tagon70]

Oh, please come off it.. DEI goes to white women… Only 9% of DEi Went to BLACK’s.. Glenn needs to stop making this about Black people and so does everyone else.. It’s extremely disingenuous

[@Jazz313]

Trump

[@brandencavinder4452]

Thank you very much.

[@frankwyatt627]

god bless you glenn, GOD BLESS YOU

[@YourBestFriendforToday]

Because it sucked

[@namreeta9]

In general, I think people are unaware of their hidden biases toward "like" vs "other". Familiar, ti can be argued, seeks familiar. This is why policies, regardless of how successful they are, e.g. The Rooney Rule ... requiring including POC in the interview pool ... or, practices in the symphonies that have 'blind' auditions for musicians ... To counter uninspected bias. Also, I'd say it's an indictment of elite institutions. If they are so great, why not increase the supply to meet the demand. Harvard can buy up all the campuses of failing institutions and put their stamp on it and spread their precious instructions. The Ivy Leagues puts out enough graduates that they can spread them throughout the country and share the intellectual wealth. So, selective schools have an abundance of applicants ... applicants who qualify via grades and test scores ... they why not have the supply meet the demand? This myth that elite institutions produce better e.g. academics or work force is a myth. I'd point to Lorne Pope's books. "Colleges that Change Lives", "Looking Beyond the Ivy League" or many of the interviews/podcasts with Malcolm Gladwell. "The Tortoise and the Hare" e.g. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tortoise-and-the-hare/id1119389968?i=1000442923261 or his book (and many others) re: "The Myth of Meritocracy" or "I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education" The frenzy in this country is insane vs. as he points out, universities in Canada ... where there isn't such a frenzy.

[@youtubeappreciator]

Subtle Dasani ad placement

[@ByRaymondFerguson]

Needs a Waiakea

[@LarryBoss-j6n]

FYI, most DEI hires with the federal government are veterans. You want to deny them too, or do you think they deserve the right to prove they can do the job?

[@gracebonez]

Veteran here...yes. We are not above reproach.

[@FactCheckerGuy]

I think that preferences for veterans should be very limited and maybe they are. The govt tracks how many veterans it hires, but neither of us knows if they really need any preference, much less how big it is. In contrast, DEI hires and admissions get huge preferences relative to the variation in the population. I believe Harvard was giving 200+ SAT points to African Americans? That is huge at the top of the distribution.

[@MediaObservers]

There's already a veteran hiring program for federal government. That's one of the problems with DEI, redundancy. Veteran's are already acknowledged and rated when applying for Fed jobs. Additional ratings are unnecessary if you're bringing up Vets in this regard.

[@stephenlight647]

I have no problem with veteran preferences.

[@reignmkr64]

1. SecDef Austin vs SecDef Hegseth is EXACTLY the reason for DEI. To insure we don't get locked out of competing for a slot or position. The argument is false that DEI is just numbers over quality. Far too many times have we witnessed people whose only qualification seem to be that they're white or their daddy/mommy attended the institution. 2. The Ivies could easily double the number students they admit and it would not have any effect on the quality. They and the rest of the top 25 colleges/universities deliberately create the extreme selection process.

[@jonathanm.eisenberg2661]

Three huge flaws drag down Prof. Loury's presentation here. First, it's been almost two years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions nationwide. Some U.S. states, including California, did so years or even decades earlier. Yet, in Feb. 2025, Prof. Loury is speaking as if affirmative action in college admissions is still in place. Prof. Loury is beating a dead horse. Second flaw: Prof. Loury is conflating affirmative action in college admissions and DEI programs at colleges. Indeed, Prof. Loury has literally nothing to say about DEI programs as distinguished from affirmative action. The title of the video is completely off given what the video is actually about. Third, Prof. Loury fails to address at all the many generations of unearned advantages that were bestowed on Christian/white/wealthy/legacy students in college admissions in this country. No discussion of affirmative action in college admissions should omit the "original" affirmative action, which has been going on for 200 years or more. In sum, this discussion is out of date, confused, and incomplete.

[@aminafarah7800]

The fact that KZbin allows u to have a show Glen is dei

[@EricKira-i5n]

You want to be the only black academic?How did you get in at BROWN University?