There is misunderstanding & exaggeration felt by those who feel their identity is under attack.
In this instance a statement simply saying their research doesn't perpetuate discrimination !== mandating your research must do ___ whatever ___
if the research does somehow discriminate, simply not accepting it into this particular society or some conference doesn't wipe it off the face of the earth or send someone to woke jail.
no one is forcing you to accept concepts of diversity & inclusion worldviews.
or that recognizing and trying to correct real factual imbalances somehow means that the 'other' group must be treated worse or be discriminated against.
multiple recent WSJ editorials are super similar to this article.
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"‘Implicit Bias’ Training Cost Me My Nursing Job" [1]
the author argued that that training would have required her to 'discriminate.'
instead of the reality of a discussion highlighting the real, legitimate, and actually factual disparities of treatment and higher death rates of POC.
correcting imbalance !== actively treating white patients worse.
no one is mandating that we lower treatment quality to level the playing field. instead of trying to correct and raise everyone up!
btw a very common refrain: they knew this without actually taking the training?
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"The College Board’s Racial Pandering" [2]
Glossing over the weird argument that funding pre-k is somehow bad because test scores have remained stagnant.. hand waving away huge benefits, including for the economy, printed by the wall street journal!
Author makes another false equivalency and presents un truths.
The addition of a new AP course on afam studies does not somehow take away from remedial math & science classes.
No one is forcing students to take this class.
author claims some ambiguous liberal education propaganda machine is aiming to "turn students who haven't even learned to read and write into social-justice warriors"
what student who can't read are taking an AP level course?
Author even spends paragraphs writing about what he assumes will be taught even though he says himself he doesn't even have a syllabus.
he complains that the afam course will ignore jewish & asian discrimination!?!
what? 1: we don't know this. 2: even so, that's not the subject of the course!
his language like "pander to black kids" sends shivers down my spine.
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I love WSJ reporting.
But the anti-factual junk they are printing in their opeds makes it hard to read.
At least they are still labeling it oped, unlike fox news.
i've written to apple news so many times. they will put non-factual, non-reporting opinion on the news feed and not label it, presenting it as real news.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-from-my-nursing-job-for-r...
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-college-boards-racial-pande...