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The class that entered MIT last fall is nearly 50% Asian, only about 5% black, and still about 37% white. DEI is much more than a black-white issue.
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In academia, isn’t the issue of DEI often more negatively impactful to Asians than to whites? MIT moved to completely eliminate race as a factor in admissions in 2024. The class entering MIT in 2023 was about 40% Asian, about 13% black and about 37% white.
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And if police dogs were used during the slavery years nearly 200 or more years ago is irrelevant to whether they should be used today.
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That’s funny. Trump casts BLAME every time something bad happens — and asserts CREDIT every time something good happens. Facts be damned.
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“Let them exist in their echo chamber….”
More and more Americans are gravitating to echo chambers that mirror their priors.
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Americans, of all political persuasions, are continuing to move towards echo chambers. That’s not healthy for a pluralistic society.
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It’s nice in an emotional-comfort sense, yes. But it’s not healthy for a pluralistic society.
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That’s a good reason to avoid echo chambers — or against spending too much time in an echo chamber that generally mirrors one’s priors.
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“…not the whole of life…”
But whether it’s Bluesky or X, Americans are continuing to gravitate towards sites that mirror their priors. This is not healthy.
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Echo chambers are destructive. And more and more Americans are gravitating to sites online that generally mirror their priors.
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It is not a matter of “unpleasant people” — it’s more of a matter of unpleasant ideas.
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Maybe they should just stay out of politics?
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Its march back to common usage started with “Hangover”.
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Violence is always nice.
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When companies that are hyper-sensitive to the blowing of consumer winds, like Ford, Walmart, McDonald’s, etc. are jettisoning DEI, that singles a collapse in support for DEI. Corporations are like lemmings.