Let’s start with the University of Idaho, which has closed its cultural centers (that is, leftist ideological pods) following a long overdue directive from the State Board of Education to close down DEI programs (though of course some programs will be renamed and staff shuffled around, so there will need to be a second phase of DEI-hunting).

Inside Higher Education quotes a student employee of a now-shuttered “Women’s Center,” which is merely being moved to a new unit under a new name:

“The transition strips away culture and history entirely. We want to be grateful for what is left over and what we are still able to have, while grieving and deeply understanding how dangerous it is to holistically sweep away so many identities and personhood.”

She forgot to say “genocide!” (Perhaps that term is reserved only for speaking of Israel.) “Sweeping away many identities”? And “personhood”? It really does seem that the identitarians are so far gone that they doubt their own ontology unless there is a special campus office devoted to making them feel better. This whole word-salad is a perfect piece of evidence for why all of these programs need to be abolished, under whatever name they try to disguise them. (Recall the definition of “holistic” in Power Line’s Lexicon of Political Terminology: “Leftist adjective for ‘we have no idea how to think about or what to do about a problem and want to change the subject with a fog of pretentious adjectives.’”)