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Tabia Lee – An Ex-DEI Director Speaks Out

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Tabia’s early career as a teacher

5:40 Tabia’s “rough ride” as a DEI director

17:06 The antisemitism problem at De Anza

25:25 The inescapable BIPOC binary

28:52 From disagreement to deplatforming

35:30 Why Tabia found support among students but not faculty

39:00 How attempts to silence Tabia backfired

40:54 Tabia’s broad vision of diversity

47:46 Learning from the medical professionals of Galilee

Recorded November 27, 2023

Links and Readings

Tabia’s New York Post piece, “I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism”

Tabia’s Compact piece, “A Black DEI Director Canceled by DEI”

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Do No Harm Medicine

Coalition for Empowered Education



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0:46.4

Hello everybody.

0:47.3

Welcome to the Glenn show.

0:49.0

I'm Glenn Lowry.

0:51.3

I'm with Tabia Lee, who is a former director of diversity equity and inclusion at

1:00.5

Deansa Community College in Cupertino, California, and has kindly agreed to join

1:09.1

us here to talk about the links between the diversity equity and inclusion critical

1:15.5

social justice movement and the problem of anti-Semitism

1:20.6

on American college campuses that has been much discussed of late in the aftermath of the

1:26.6

attack in southern Israel on October 7th and the war that has ensued as a result of that.

1:33.2

We're not necessarily here to talk about the Middle East or anything like that, but thank you

1:37.6

very much, Tavia, for joining us.

1:41.0

Thank you for having me, Glenn. You're welcome. I should mention the Glenn Show is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute

1:47.2

in New York City, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where I am a John Paulson senior fellow and I'm also a professor of economics and a professor of the

1:59.1

social sciences here at Brown University.

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So this is the Glenn show.

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