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The Princeton University Ballet, a student-run ballet company, has gone full woke. So has Princeton's EDI in the Arts Circuit, which apparently is tied to the University's administration. Responding to my first post on the subject, a friend called my attention to this passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harris Bergeron.”: THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law.
In Part One of this series, I reported on the plan of student leaders of the Princeton University Ballet to (among other things) 'decolonize' their practice of ballet, 'deemphasize technique,' and exclude from membership Princeton ballet enthusiasts who are unwilling to engage in their brand of activism. In Part II, I want to consider Princeton's stance on these matters. As I understand it, the EDI in the Arts Circuit is