Oregon State requires two “Power and Oppression” courses, at least six credits. The goal? Train students to “disrupt systems of oppression.” Northwestern forces two “Power, Justice, Equity” classes. Course options include Critical Fat Studies, Beyond the Binary, Black Queer Diaspora, and Land Identity and the Sacred. Penn State Dickinson Law made “Race and the Equal Protection of the Laws” a required first-year course right after George Floyd. The dean openly said those deaths motivated an “anti-racist approach” to legal education.
David Blackman walked away after one semester and gave up a 50% scholarship. He was told law enforcement is racist and oppressive. He felt censored. Administrators sat in the room recording students reactions. No one was told their opinions were safe. This isn’t education. It’s ideological enforcement. And the kids who just want to learn are the ones getting crushed.
🚨 Woke ideology isn’t dead. It’s now mandatory.
Oregon State requires two “Power and Oppression” courses, at least six credits. The goal? Train students to “disrupt systems of oppression.”
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— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 20, 2026
Woke ideology isn’t dead. It’s now mandatory.
The Left is forcing every student through a gauntlet of Leftist, Marxist, and “anti-oppression” classes designed to reprogram them before they can walk across a stage with a diploma.
That is not education. That is ideological capture of the American university system.
The latest flashpoint comes from Oregon State University. Students who enrolled in summer 2025 or later must complete two “Difference, Power & Oppression” courses—at least six credits—as part of the core curriculum. The stated goal is explicit: train students to examine how “institutions and ideologies sustain systemic oppression” and to “disrupt systems of oppression.” Professors even need special training in critical and feminist pedagogies before they can teach these classes. Course options include Antiracism and DEI in Practice, Disney: Gender, Race, Empire, and Biological and Cultural Constructions of Race. This is not optional enrichment. It is a graduation requirement.
Northwestern University runs a parallel operation. Undergraduates must take two “Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity” courses. Approved options have included Critical Fat Studies, Beyond the Binary, Black Queer Diaspora, Land Identity and the Sacred, and various race, gender, and “carceral state” offerings. The university frames these as essential to becoming “responsible agents of change.” Change toward what, exactly? The answer is baked into the course titles.
At Penn State Dickinson Law, the ideological enforcement arrived even earlier. After the death of George Floyd, the school made “Race and the Equal Protection of the Laws” a required first-year course. The dean openly described it as part of an “anti-racist approach” to legal education. One student, David Blackman, lasted a single semester before walking away and forfeiting a 50% scholarship. He was taught that law enforcement is inherently racist and oppressive. Administrators sat in class recording student reactions. No one reassured students that dissenting opinions were safe. He left. Many others simply shut up and play along.
This is not limited to a few radical outposts. A 2024 Speech First investigation of 248 colleges and universities found that 67% required DEI-related classes to graduate. Of those, 59% were public, taxpayer-funded institutions. The Goldwater Institute later identified 74 public university campuses across 30 states—serving more than 1.4 million undergraduates—that still force DEI coursework on every student.
The California State University system is particularly aggressive. Nearly every campus requires at least one diversity and cultural competency class. Some demand two. Options include “Queer Crip Lit” (examining ableism alongside racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia) and “Decolonize Your Diet: Food Justice and Gendered Labor in Communities of Color.” San Francisco State piles on requirements covering American ethnic and racial minorities, social justice, environmental sustainability, and global perspectives. Humboldt State offers “Decolonizing Public Health.” This is the largest public university system in the country turning the core curriculum into a political re-education program.
The entire University of Wisconsin System follows suit. All 13 four-year campuses require ethnic studies coursework. At UW-Eau Claire, students must complete multiple “equity, diversity and inclusivity” experiences designed to “challenge existing structures.” The courses regularly center race, sexuality, and left-wing talking points under the soft language of “pluralism.”
Other examples stack up quickly: Georgetown’s required “Seminar in Race, Power, and Justice”; Williams College’s “Difference, Power, & Equity” prerequisite that trains students as “agents of change”; University of Vermont’s mandatory “Race and Racism” class focused on power and privilege. Even in red states, some public universities have clung to “multicultural,” “cultural diversity,” or “Flags” requirements that function as DEI by another name—though Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Idaho, and others have begun stripping these out under pressure from Republican governors, legislatures, and the Trump administration’s executive actions against illegal DEI.
The pattern is clear. Where traditional Western civilization, American history, and civics requirements have been hollowed out or eliminated, identity-politics courses have taken their place. Students are sorted into oppressor and oppressed categories. They are taught that the United States is defined by systemic racism, settler colonialism, and interlocking systems of power that must be disrupted. Dissent is treated as moral failure. The result is not critical thinking. It is conformity.
Parents and taxpayers are bankrolling this. Students leave with debt, a warped view of their own country, and fewer practical skills. The kids who just want to learn engineering, accounting, nursing, or the Constitution are the ones getting crushed.
Woke ideology did not die. It went mandatory. The only remaining question is how long American families, state legislatures, and the federal government will keep writing the checks. The Democrats have infested this nation in all ways, and now it’s about to explode as they steal both houses of Congress in November, assuming Trump does not stop voter fraud before then. Dark days will then hit this nation and all humanity, as once again Americans will be called upon to fight for freedom and the yoke of Marxism is used to destroy the Constitution. The countdown is real – see it and read the letter on the bottom at this link – CLICK HERE
— The Whatfinger News Team: Ben and Beth
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- Woke ideology isn’t dead. It’s now mandatory as the Left forces ALL students to do as they are told…WTF?
- Oregon State requires two courses examining ‘systems of oppression’
- Cal State Schools Require Students To Take DEI Classes To Graduate. Options Include ‘Queer Crip Lit’ and ‘Decolonize Your Diet.’
- Ethnic studies courses required to graduate at all 13 four-year UW schools
- Billions for DEI in Higher Ed: The Cost of Indoctrination (Goldwater Institute)
- Two-thirds of US colleges, universities require DEI classes to graduate: report (Speech First via NY Post)
- No Graduation Without Indoctrination: The DEI Course Mandate (Speech First)
- In Higher Ed, the Constitution Is Optional. DEI Is Not.
- University of Houston cuts over 40% of core curriculum classes
- UNC System cuts diversity-course requirement for graduation
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