 Texas has banned all DEI offices in higher education meaning that colleges now in the state have defunded things like the Asian Black and Latino graduation and welcoming events. Of course this has people on the internet talking. Yeah I'm glad that my taxpayer dollars are no longer funding division exclusion and indoctrination. We got to talk about it because of course this is going to spark a myriad of opinions. Make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications Andrew real quick. What is got banned because a lot of people are like what it got banned at a state level right? There was Senate Bill 17, Greg Abbott, Republican Governor. I don't think UT Austin wants to do it but basically they're losing the funding. Yeah people are confused. I don't even have all the details so I think a lot of people are jumping to conclusions and getting very emotional about this saying like it's segregation screaming at segregation. We needed to cancel that it's not segregation but I'm not going to say that every single event that was thrown was vital. Obviously if this was a matter of cutting school funding you do have to cut some of the fun stuff or the new programs but the point is that the Republicans were saying Republicans that were voting against it were saying that the DEI stuff the diversity inclusion has not been working and in fact it drives more division. Now I don't know if that's true. I don't have the stats on that so I'm not going to support that but I will say this that definitely some of these events that they were having at UT Austin such as graduation, some of the either even some of the welcoming events for the Latino students and the black students those are canceled. Let me say this they look fun though. The events look fun but they're not vital to your like four-year experience because I do think that people have gotten away from the meaning of college. The meaning of college means that you're there to study make professional connections obviously grow intellectually but it is not like the funnest four-year like party school like social life everything's about frat sororities ethnic frats and sororities I do not think that that is the meaning of college. Yeah I mean I think that there were some events that were probably had funding of thousands of dollars that for example Cultivation, UT Austin that was an event last year and that I'm not saying that's something that we would have necessarily gotten invited to but these are things that we've partaken in we've partaken in cultural events. Now I think cultural centers and cultural groups are still there and getting funding I believe I do not think they're getting touched. You're talking about like a Lunar New Year type situation or a Kwanzaa or yes the Asian Student Union has a Lunar New Year event I think that still has always existed and that is still there so they're not canceling all cultural events but because I think the funding was coming from the DEI office for some of these events so it was like an extra cultural event center you know how there's almost like if there was this cake of multiculturalism some of the toppings have had their funding cut yeah but the cake is still there but some of the the most delicious morsel toppings have been deleted I don't know how it works because I haven't been in one of these offices but I'm assuming that there's the cultural center that is still there that we've I've been to 20 different colleges cultural centers in my life well that's usually where we get sent that's where we start off that's who we're brought out that's our green room shout out to everybody who's brought us out so I've enjoyed my time there but and then I think DEI offices correct me if I'm wrong is a separate office that is maybe fairly new I'm not sure well you know it's going away yeah I guess that that's what's causing the stir on the internet right because some people think that it's going back in time other people are supporting it saying trim the fat it went too far etc there was a lot of really strong opinions across the internet yeah yeah and I don't know exactly what happened on the UT Austin campus if something controversial happened if it started to become very discriminatory against like let's say white people then that is wrong it is true all these cultural events you cannot discriminate who goes if it's an open event for students it's all students um I kind of feel bad for the black and Latino graduation getting cut because I know that there's not as many students there's not as many students and I know it means more because a lot of people are maybe the first person in their family yeah to go but but here's what I was thinking I was thinking they could add more acknowledgement for that in the mainstream graduation I think that could make sense I think that I think having one graduation for a college like a main one and then you also have your department graduation too let's be honest um I don't think it's wrong you know what I mean right if you remember for business school the business school graduation was quite big right I mean I'll tell you guys this if you guys went to a four-year big school like we did University of Washington people generally care more about their department graduation because that's where all the individual awards were in terms of just like getting your degree you know how like when you're in the uh the husky stadium and there's like 40 000 people you don't really feel special I don't even know if I went to mine I don't even think I went to the main one I went to the business school and that was the only one department graduation right because that's who you're primarily spending your last couple years around is people in your uh specific major I think two things my point and then we're going to get into the comment section as long as the cultural centers still have funding and they're not cutting the funding to that I still think the cultural centers are legit you need you need students to feel empowered to have their own groups so that they can throw events because they can't always be part of the mainstream system we know what it is they're still yeah and I would imagine especially in Texas let's be honest all the old systems of quote unquote the open format Greek culture frats and sororities they're probably like 95 white and even though they're not called white fraternities and sororities everybody kind of knows but I'll tell you this I think any sort of racist or discriminatory acts and situations need to get handled super quick because that's a way to make people feel better about this is like okay you're cutting some of the DEI stuff that means like the lgbt groups they're they're one of their events is cut and the asians get one cut blacks black people get not to graduate asian no latinos get one cut but i'm saying as long as the authorities on the campus are handling any situation that pops up with swift speedy action right you're saying they can't cut DEI or then all of a sudden let people be racist yeah so here's my thing I think kids are less racist nowadays which is better I agree that I think so yeah dude come on you gotta be you people are more racist than they used to be well because I think they listen to more different types of music and they eat more different types of foods at a young age exactly and they know so hopefully i'm assuming like if anything pops up on campus that is discriminatory against any group that i'm hoping it's like handled with the quickness yes yes yes anyway let's just get into the comment section somebody's saying uh because a lot of people on the right especially in texas were accusing these events of being segregationist right so this person said these are not segregationist events they're cultural celebrations anybody could attend and other people are like yeah anybody could attend but let's be honest it was designed for a specific ethnic group and not other ethnic groups so were the white people right in saying that it was segregation or was it just a cultural event that only appeals to like a very hyper dude more niche demographic dude people gotta use the word segregation correctly man you gotta use it correctly just because it's a cultural celebration it's because it's a lunar new year party doesn't mean you can't buy a ticket you'll still have to buy a ticket because everybody buys a ticket but if you're white or you're black or whoever you want to go you can go to the asian student union event so you're saying i can go swag surf at the black graduate listen the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others that's segregation you're not you're not not allowing other people you're just celebrating and emphasizing right right right i do think the people on the right are essentially obviously exaggerating to it's not segregation man but i can't say that in every single situation maybe people have felt that it's discriminatory to them but that's but like legally they didn't do all right so we're gonna get into the tea of the comments section and it seemed like asians cared less because less asians were going to the asian graduation than like for example other groups like because it is true at the university of washington we always had black and latino graduation i don't think we ever had an asian graduation i just googled it to see because i was like i would have known about that i don't remember i don't remember having an asian graduation but there was obviously a significant asian student population so asians in a college sense i feel like we're almost treated like we're just white in a in a in a you know what i'm saying like not that we're treated like we're in power like we're white but we just not treated like a minority yeah i think asians in college they don't like need that they don't feel the need to have that separate graduation as much you know what i mean like and i like you said earlier for for real reasons like i think the black and latino students you could argue do need more or do deserve it more yeah and honestly their their celebrations that i looked up look lit um you know basically there was just so much arguing back and forth someone said good inclusion means everybody how can the i in inclusion we're taxpayer dollars and i'm looking at a fold of the graduation and it's only one race can we just point to some stories or can we talk to some white kids who felt discriminated at these events i'm just saying we need to have some evidence so can we talk to some white kids guys or girls that felt like yeah you know i try to walk in on that um gravitation and and they just looked at me so funny and they told me no they they kept saying no byron no byron i didn't know what it meant i will say this i do not think it's fully healthy for it to always feel like the minorities are so unbelievably different from the white people on campus i i do think that there could be more celebration of the black and latino students and the asian students or whatever at the mainstream graduation or nearing the end of the semester why not in the um you know the open student you know there there was always like a main student center area why can't there be a mini version where everybody's exposed to it so it's almost like instead of an exclusive event you're having your event put on a pedestal but amongst everybody else and i think that that could be a cool way where it's almost like people still feel appreciated for their uh within their own group but it almost like pushes the culture more out to everybody else right well how about this why don't colleges if you're going to cancel the dei stuff you got to include these cultural groups more into the mainstream thing so they you got to be able to give you come to that no here's for example ut awesome football basketball huge right sport huge sport school so white kids cheering on black athletes which is cool which is fine but i'm saying if the asian student union requests that they need like 15 tickets for their group that you include them like just do things like that right right right so they don't feel like they've been left out of the mainstream and then therefore need we all understand if you've ever been on a college campus bro that's big enough we get it that there's a cultural center and a lot of the minority kids kind of hang out there and that's not all the kids but then there's kids that go in between i was kind of and then there's a few minority kids that like go more go with the greek row with the white kids but i'm saying like you there has to be acknowledgement that these groups exist on campus and they have to be taken care of but yeah if there is like if you have to cut funding somewhere i you know there's some stuff that can get cut you know what this reminds me of andrew uh my junior year in high school i had to write a 30 page thesis essay on some topic and you know what i wrote it on i wrote it i wrote it on affirmative action reform and basically my whole premise was that you needed it but the current iteration was making everybody mad and probably not getting it done so here were the reforms necessary to it so it's like it gets the job done it helps out the groups that it needs to help and then the other groups is not all mad like i hate it because because the implementation or maybe you know what i mean like obviously it's the marketing and the packaging of the implementation as well because i think that they do need to have diversity equity and inclusion but probably the way they've been going about it for maybe whatever x amount of years needed in a firmware update and because you know when it doesn't get the firmware update people get mad they start pouring out the flaws because there is a legitimately flaws and then they strike it all down but it's not like the people who are going to strike it down are going to issue like an upgrade or a reform they just want to cut it all right so so i i don't think that uh banning it was necessary but i do think that if you're going to cut funding on these things then you got to do something else to include everybody into the larger because you can't just sit there and scream oh well these groups have their own little thing going on but we're not really going to help them integrate into the mainstream anyways like you have to there has to be some are you proposing a deal like a trade yeah bro all right take away the de i offices but what else are you going to offer Greg Abbott should say that yeah they touch this governor should say that instead of just being like we're going to strike it down be like okay we're going to take it but here here's what we're going to do i would maybe just want to shout out to the asian student union sometimes i don't know anyways guys uh let us know what you think of the comments down below again listen it's not really clear what the bill says and what exactly is getting uh uh deleted and i heard some of the the the colleges internally they may like redirect funds to get you know yeah to like go around the legality so it doesn't mean that there's no more cultural events but also yeah i don't know if they needed to do that either so anyways you guys let me know in the comments down below please give us your thoughts again uh you know these are things cultural events were things that i was a part of but yeah maybe maybe you don't yeah i mean i don't know if you need all of them but you need some anyways let me know in the comments down below until next time we out peace