It has recently come to light that the University of Delaware has been subjecting their students to a program described as a “treatment” for attitudes and beliefs the school deems incorrect. The indoctrination by the University of Delaware’s Office of Residence Life includes everything from issues on politics and environmentalism to sexuality and morality. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is the group that broke the story. The organization is an advocate of free speech and claims to have no specific political leanings. The foundation’s President, Greg Lukianoff, said, “The University of Delaware’s residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students’ private beliefs. The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional.”

Students received “diversity facilitation training” and were taught, among many other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.” If you find this hard to believe, take a look at the Diversity Facilitation Training packet yourself.