“A work-study job advertised at Penn State University wants students committed to ‘anti-racism practices’ to help a left-leaning political organization register and educate voters,” reports The College Fix.
“Anti-racism practices” typically means race-based policies that prefer minority groups. The “key concept” in Ibram Kendi’s best-selling book How to Be an Antiracist is that discrimination against whites is the only way to achieve equality: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” wrote Kendi in that book.
So anti-racist voter registration might focus on registering black voters, 87% of whom voted for the Democrats in the 2020 presidential election. Effectively, that would be a partisan voter registration drive.
As The College Fix notes,
The job has renewed concerns by a leading Republican lawmaker about the Biden administration turning the financial aid program into a “vote-buying sweepstakes.”
The position is offered through Penn State’s Community Service Federal Work Study Program, and it is posted on the university’s careers website and DEJobs.org. It invites Penn State students to work as “civic engagement ambassadors” with a local chapter of the League of Women Voters.
Students “will work to support the registration and education of community voters,” according to the job description.
The job lists desired skill sets, including “equity and inclusion,” which it describes as “expanding awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills to engage equitably and include people from different local and global cultures and engage in anti-racism practices.”…students will work with the Centre County chapter of the League of Women Voters….[The League of Women Voters’] positions align more with the Democratic Party, including on abortion, guns, climate change, and male athletes who identify as female competing in women’s sports.
The League of Women Voters’ positions tend to align with, or be to the left of, the Democratic Party. In the past, when the Democrats were not as left-wing as they are today, the League of Women Voters took positions to the left of both political parties, such as endorsing a single-payer health care ballot initiative in California in 1994 that both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor opposed because it was too costly and would have bankrupted the state.
Chapters of the League of Women Voters have also supported state ballot initiatives to raise income tax rates to pay for various government programs.
Chapters of the League of Women Voters have supported left-wing policies about the criminal justice system and guns that state Democratic Parties in the south avoided backing because of their perceived public-safety impacts.
