Redemption does not come from DEI administrators or university bureaucracies proposing to cure discrimination with more discrimination. The obvious question is whether ordinary safeguards failed — and whether the university’s diversity priorities had anything to do with that failure. Some suggested that the political right was weaponizing his case against diversity and black academics more broadly. Professor Kehinde Andrews went further, connecting the controversy to what he considered a more important story: black academics losing jobs as British universities make cuts. Redemption does not come from DEI administrators or university bureaucracies proposing to cure discrimination with more discrimination.