DEI MUST BE RIPPED OUT, ROOT AND BRANCH: In fourth undercover video, group highlights ‘sneaky’ DEI at UNC Wilmington.

The two-minute edited video released by Accuracy in Media, a conservative activism group, shows two employees discussing how there’s been some shuffling of staff and the use of different terminology in the wake of the ban.

“They’re trying to be a little bit sneaky, I feel like, with certain things in the plan. We didn’t have to fire anybody or lay off anybody, as they were really reassigned,” said Asher Persin, center coordinator for the Mohin-Scholz LGBTQIA+ Resource Center at UNCW, in the video.

When asked about “antiracism” efforts, Persin said it’s a word that is not going to be part of the “verbaige” during trainings anymore. “It will have to be renamed,” asks the undercover AIM journalist, who sounds like a female in their 20s. “Yes,” Persin responded.

Persin, who uses they/them pronouns, according to their online bio, made the comments despite the University of North Carolina Board of Governors banning DEI offices and programs systemwide in May 2024.
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In the undercover video, Ashlee Fleming, coordinator of the Upperman African American Cultural Center, said that positions were eliminated, but really “newish positions” were created.

Funny, they don’t look newish.