ANTI-WHITE RACISM WITH OUR TAX DOLLARSB.C. university philosophy faculty job only accepting black applicants
Simon Fraser University fully embraced race-based hiring with an advertisement for a faculty position exclusively restricted to black applicants.
Nov 11, 2025
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Simon Fraser University fully embraced race-based hiring with an advertisement for a faculty position exclusively restricted to black applicants.
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A tenure-track posting in philosophy says the competition is limited to applicants who “self-identify as Black.” Applicants must first complete an “Applicant Demographic Survey.”
Another posting in the school of criminology applies the same race restriction, warning that candidates who do not complete the survey “will not be considered.”
The posting states that the demographic survey responses will be used to determine their “appropriateness for [the] position,” alongside their experience and qualifications
Simon Fraser University says race-restricted hiring is part of a special program supported by the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner. The university received approval from the commissioner to “limit recruitment.”
Simon Fraser University plans to hire at least “15 Black tenure-track faculty and 15 Black staff” by 2028 to address what it calls “systemic discrimination.”
The demographic survey asks applicants to report Indigenous identity, racial identity, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability status. The postings say these questions help the university meet Canada Research Chairs targets to “enhance equity” and “remove systemic barriers to recruitment.”
Earlier this year, the Aristotle Foundation tracked identity-restricted academic postings. Its preliminary assessment report found that nearly one in five postings at the University of British Columbia limited eligibility to a specific identity group.
Mark Milke, president of the Aristotle Foundation, told True North that “there’s nothing wrong with diversity in an organic sense. What’s wrong with something like \[diversity, equity, and inclusions\] or race-conscious hiring is it looks at people, not as individuals, but as part of some predetermined group; race, ethnicity—and in some cases, religion.”
Milke noted that parts of Canada abandoned race-consciousness as far back as the 19th century. “Governor Douglas in British Columbia welcomed black Americans from California. They were not race-conscious,” he said. “They could become citizens after two years, they could vote in school board elections, run as a trustee, and run for city council.”
In Ontario, Milke said, efforts to prohibit workplace race and sex-based discrimination began in the 1950s. “The existence of, say, personal prejudice is not akin to systemic discrimination,” he said. “DEI advocates keep conflating systemic discrimination with occasional instances of personal bigotry.”
According to Milke, an example of true systemic discrimination would be when “white San Franciscans would not allow Chinese San Franciscans into white hospitals a century ago. That was systemic but that doesn’t exist in Canada today.”
The Aristotle Foundation study says that Ottawa tied university funding to DEI rules starting in 2017, pushing campuses to meet equity targets. By 2019, some Canada Research Chairs were being limited to applicants from designated identity groups. It notes that government DEI pages describe designated identity groups but do not set criteria for viewpoint diversity in hiring or research.
Simon Fraser University did not respond to a request for comment.