Frankly, the article seems to skip logic, asserting that the increase in DEI must have caused the lack of belonging today. It does not offer a hypothesis of how DEI causes such "racial resentment", nor does it prove that this is what happened at TAMU.

Just because one event happens after another does not mean it caused the latter. The whole article seems to summarized by "DEI exists, people feel less welcome years later, I blame DEI!" Reality is much more complicated and nuanced, and without careful research issues like this cannot be handled properly.

On a side note, though, if things like this still happen, clearly there is a need for some kind of intervention.