I worked at the same think tank that Heather Exner-Pirot worked at because I was essentially pushed out of academia for having the wrong demographics. I mean, you're looking at it here. It's a serious problem to say you're not aware of this. Surveys of the political leanings of the faculty show that they're overwhelmingly to the left. It's absurd. To say, “Had we been warned...”, well, of course you were warned. You were warned vocally about this for decades, and people just said, “Oh, yeah; you're a bunch of bigots.”
If I may, I'll quickly tell a story.
My parents got their Ph.D.s in the late fifties. They were on the road for a couple of years at UBC and U of A, and then my dad landed a job at the University of Toronto—a plum job. My mom said, “If you can do it, I can do it.” When an opening came up in history, she got an interview, and at the end of it the chairman said to her, “Well, that was a good interview, dear, but in this department, we don't hire women.” My mother fixed him with a gimlet eye and said, “You're hiring this one,” and they did, so there's your DEI.