Trump DOJ targets CUNY over racism allegations as it takes aim at DEI programs ⁠56%

By Cayla Bamberger⁠0%

6/9/2026, 10:37:45 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Hasty Generalization, and Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 34.7% saturation with 107 hits. Analysis detected 781 faulty-reasoning hits from 308 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠56% (9,320 of 21,176 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 56.00% of the article peer group.

The Trump administration is investigating the City University of New York over allegations of racial discrimination, the U.S. 
Justice Department announced Tuesday. 
The agency’s civil rights arm said it received reports alleging CUNY’s Black Male Initiative gives preference to some students over others on the basis of race. 
“Race can never play a role when deciding how to distribute educational resources or opportunities,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement. 
“This Justice Department will not tolerate universities directing educational benefits to certain students over others based on their race.” 
CUNY spokespeople did not immediately return a request for comment. 
The mission of the Black Male Initiative is to increase the enrollment, GPAs and graduation rates of students historically underrepresented in higher education. 
The initiative funds programs on a majority of CUNY campuses and is open to students of all races and gender, according to its website. 
The probe is the latest example of the Trump administration going after higher education programs focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. 
The federal government similarly targeted New York University and dozens of other institutions as part of its investigation related to the PhD Project, a program federal officials alleged limits eligibility on the basis of race. 
It comes after a conservative legal advocacy group, the Equal Protection Project, brought a lawsuit this month accusing the CUNY initiative of violating federal civil rights law. 
During a budget hearing on Monday, CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez confirmed the public university system receives federal funding, including some grants that have already been canceled. 
In recent years, CUNY has received $888 million through the federal Title IV program — which includes grants, loans and work-study programs — and 57% of CUNY students receive federal financial aid, according to university data. 
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308 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers31%attributed speech214writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 100.0% coverageHarmeet Dhillon • 24 words • 100.0% coverageHarmeet Dhillon • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageCUNY • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageFelix Matos Rodriguez • 27 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Harmeet Dhillon

100%flagged-word coverage
43 attributed words46% of attributed speech90% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Harmeet Dhillon: 100.0%100.0%Politically Left Leaning B-12.6 ptsWriter: 12.6%Harmeet Dhillon: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-12.1 ptsWriter: 12.1%Harmeet Dhillon: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -9.8 ptsWriter: 9.8%Harmeet Dhillon: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-6.5 ptsWriter: 6.5%Harmeet Dhillon: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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