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It says that a Black women from a lower income background faces an intersection of discrimination and hurdles by virtue of these things.
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"avoid a Manichean “intersectional” worldview which
neatly divides racial and ethnic groups into
categories of oppressed and oppressors and
requires oppressed groups to unthinkingly
support one another’s causes." Not at all what intersectionality does. Indeed, it doesn't neatly divide groups.
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"In order to tap into the talents of all students, such policies
would recognize that some students face extra
economic obstacles, but would not assume
something iniquitous is afoot if one racial group
(say, Asian Americans) outperforms other
groups." Asians benefit from DEI.
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This proposal IS ideological. Advancing racial equity isn't simply an ideology. Jamie Dimon made the business case for it. I can make a Constitutional argument for it. People from across the ideological spectrum can make a number of arguments about why we all benefit from racial equity.
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"Encourage faculty candidates to lay out plans
for students to succeed but don’t impose loyalty
oaths that require a commitment to a particular
ideological agenda, such as a pledge to achieve
proportional representation of racial groups
through racial preferences."
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"Promote the benefits of free speech and avoid
campus speech codes that chill legitimate
discussions." Unless it's antiemetic, apparently. This argument makes no sense.
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"Learn from rigorous research about which
approaches to integration, equal opportunity, and
belonging yield the desired results and which do
not." I suggest you take your own advice.
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Economic position isn't a morally superior metric to racial consideration just because white people aren't disadvantaged by their race.
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"Eliminate bureaucracies that were dedicated
to compulsory DEI enforcement and repurpose
the funds to other priorities, such as devoting
resources to promising students who face
economic disadvantages." These departments already do that. But why is it ok to use economics but not race?
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I know students in my wealthy white suburb get extra points when they apply to college because the school system is so good. Is that a merit-based decision?
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"Champion merit as an important value and avoid the soft bigotry of low expectations for students of color." Since ending racially conscious admissions, MIT has seen their admissions of Black students drop from 15% to 3%. Devastating. Prove this is an example of merit. I don't see it.
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"Whereas the current focus on “equity” implies
equality of racial group." Literally, not. Equality means everyone is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes people have different circumstances and allocates resources and opportunities based on need to achieve an equal outcome.
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"treating people as individuals rather than members of racial groups and nurturing independent thought. To symbolize
the sharp substantive break from DEI policies." Society doesn't treat Black people as individuals, so this is absurd.
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"DEI efforts are almost always focused on issues of race and gender rather than socioeconomic status, even though mounds of research find that class, not race, is the primary predictor of opportunity in America today." This is just false. Much of DEI includes poorer whites. However, race matters.
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"Massachusetts Teachers Association
made the preposterous argument that the widely
lauded state test, the MCAS, “has allowed white
supremacy to flourish in the public schools.” I'd note that the voters just decided MCAS cannot stop someone from graduating who has otherwise earned their degree.
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"DEI can constitute a significant part of the new
administrative bloat. According to the New York
Times, the University of Michigan spent a quarter
of a billion dollars on DEI since 2016 and currently
employs 241 people." Why target DEI? There's plenty of redundancy in university administration.
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Hispanics and Asians saw their numbers increase in terms of federal workforce participation. And disabled Americans who participate in federal employment at a rate 3 times as high as the private sector were the focus of an initiative make these jobs more satisfactory for the disabled.
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"The Biden administration endorsed DEI
enthusiastically. Biden Executive Order 13985
advanced a “whole-of-government equity agenda”
in every federal department and agency." An exceedingly successful program, where Asians and Blacks saw their salaries rise to comparative levels of whites.
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I can site a number of studies that show Americans support diversity and inclusion.
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"The Pew Research Center
found that 78% of whites, 54% of Blacks and
69% of Hispanics say “when it comes to making
decisions about hiring and promotions, companies
and organizations should only take a person’s
qualifications into account, even if it results in
less diversity.”
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"Induce hostility, increase authoritarian tendencies and
foster agreement with extreme rhetoric." Perhaps what is inducing hostility is white resentment. We don't protect resentments. Authoritarian tendencies? Pretty sure we're seeing authoritarian tendencies play out by the people who reject DEI.
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We have coca-cola outright saying ending DEI hiring practices WILL produce a less diverse staff AND is listed as a business threat.
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"DEI is a multibillion-dollar industry, but in 2023,
Jesse Singal noted in The New York Times that
evaluation studies generally find it has “little or no
positive long-term effect.” Broad assumptions about DEI aside, currently we have Target facing sluggish sales and a shareholder lawsuit.
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If you want to fight antisemitism, do that. To blame race-conscious admissions for antisemitism, you'd have to prove it. And this writer does not.
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How many so-called DEI personnel are on Twitter? Which ones were included? "This is evidence of Twitter feeds of 741 DEI personnel at 65 universities found that only 4% of tweets
about Israel were favorable, compared with 62% of
tweets about China, a notorious abuser of human
rights."
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Libraries and hospitals often employ their own DEI hiring practices, and they are not filled with young people questioning authority, but here the author blames DEI for a rise in antisemitism.
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This reminds me of the rain forest in Puerto Rico.