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This diversity stuff comes from the very top, when I was doing my PhD the three most productive (and published) grad students and post docs were a few white and chinese guys. But every grant I proofread from my advisor extolled the "diverse" make up of the lab and the contributions from underrepresented minorities therein (women of various backgrounds) who largely did not contribute to any of the prior work on which…
As someone currently helping my son fill out college applications, I find this article 100% on point. For one public college, there are only two essay questions and they both deal with diversity. How does a white middle class male answer? He has an incredible fascination with weather and wants to pursue that as a major. Does he emphasize this aspect since it sets him apart from other applicants. Logically, that would…
I think these institutions believe that more diversity ----> more inclusivity and less racism. How would a racist indian national deeply entrenched in caste culture help my company be less racist? How would an asian supremacist laotian increase the workplace's acceptance? If you want a place of tolerance then it should be populated by tolerant people. Throwing together males and females with a random sample of skin c…
As someone currently helping my son fill out college applications, I find this article 100% on point. For one public college, there are only two essay questions and they both deal with diversity. How does a white middle class male answer? He has an incredible fascination with weather and wants to pursue that as a major. Does he emphasize this aspect since it sets him apart from other applicants. Logically, that would…
> How does a white middle class male answer? Diversity doesn't only mean race. It can mean cultural backgrounds, experiences, values and viewpoints. It can mean creative vs. analytic thinkers, artistic vs. not, leadership, extroversion, unusual contributions to society, and so on. If you're a physics expert in a team of math experts, you add diversity.
Yes it does. It's an imperialist code-word for state sanctioned racism against the majority population of the proletariat in order to pit the proletariat against itself. Absolutely no one is fooled.
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No, I'm criticizing tone and content. And I don't think "vapid" is a word you get to use here: I probably read this person's blog more carefully than most of his supporters on the thread did.
Bit by bit, we've got: > it's all sort of comically smug Tonal critique, valid but not worth much. > everybody else in the entire world is wrong, and here is a 7-point axiomatic derivation proving it What argument doesn't take this form? If you're making an argument you yourself agree with, then yeah, the implication is that you disagree with people who disagree with it. Axiomatic derivations will be involved, becaus…
The elite does. They want a race war instead of class war because they know they would lose the latter. Divide et impera has been used for more than 2000 years and it will never go away.
Check out Place Not Race by Sheryll Cashin for a more nuanced, intellectual discussion: https://www.amazon.com/Place-Not-Race-Opportunity-America/dp...
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This sounds like the kind of thing you say when you are annoyed but cant find a good argument against the points being made.
I agree, but it can also be true that there are so many things wrong with the points being made that it's hard to construct a response.
I am absolutely all in for equality, but definitely strongly against equity. When I get HR try to shove a resume down my throat because it ticks all of their boxes despite having none of the boxes to be succesful on the job, that is when I draw the line. I don't care if you're white, black, purple or green, and whether you fuck men, women, all of them or none of them is none of my business. At the end of the day I wa…
(Speaking of the US) Our society has historically created great differences in opportunity. It is unarguable that white males have disproportionately benefited[1][2][3]. Affirmative action / Diversity Initiatives are a blunt instrument that attempts to address these historical inequities. If e.g., a student from a school in a poor area had the same quality of a K-12 education, did not have to worry about tuition (I.e…
Wouldn't AA on social-economical status work, which can be more inclusive? Even you only mentioned "poor" and "wealthy", instead of some neighborhood of particular identity group.
As someone currently helping my son fill out college applications, I find this article 100% on point. For one public college, there are only two essay questions and they both deal with diversity. How does a white middle class male answer? He has an incredible fascination with weather and wants to pursue that as a major. Does he emphasize this aspect since it sets him apart from other applicants. Logically, that would…
> How does a white middle class male answer? Someone close to me hired a writer to pen a woke entrance essay for their son. This was after a guidance counselor warned that "people like him" are having a hard time getting into medical school right now. We can't say if it worked or not, but he did get in.
• were you asked to write an essay that took an aspect of his life and portrayed it from a woke perspective, or were you asked to fabricate an essay from whole cloth?
• why do you think your friend asked you to write the essay? Was it based on your race/sex/etc., or are you an expert in the field based on your occupation?
• have you given any thought to the consequences of writing essays like this for applicants? Do you think the ethics of writing these essays differs from the ethics of writing entrance essays in general (where this essay signals ideological alignment in addition to competence, if well-written)?