Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy:
"If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion?
Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"
"If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion?
Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"
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Max Kozlov
A US judge to govt lawyers defending the NIH's grant terminations:
"I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition.
This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."
"I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition.
This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."
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“They’re indoctrinating kindergarteners!”
“If your kindergartener is a legal scholar, I’m mightily impressed.”
🙄
Then SEL…
“We don’t need know feelin’s in these schools! Just prayer!”
“Which prayer? Which feelings frighten you, specifically?”
😒
I'm asking for the definition of a policy that squares with what I had always understood to be defining elements of the American experience."
https://bsky.app/profile/scott-delaney.bsky.social/post/3lpreceabbk2o