Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
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Re: Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
#2I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
Re: Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
#3I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
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#6I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
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Don’t believe the propaganda.
“Anti-racism” is actually about racism against Asians.
“Equity” is actually about lowering the standards and destroying meritocracy.
“Inclusion” is actually about excluding people that have different political or moral opinions (e.g. that don’t want to be racist against Asians or that support meritocracy).
Re: Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
#7I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
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No that's bullshit. If you ask me to say "I hate hitler and bin laden" for no reason I would have a similar reaction as well.
How can people put up with this filth? It repulses and disgusts me so much when kindness, compassion and even justice are absorbed by this bureaucratic ideological machine where people say and do things out if insincerity, just as lip service to fall in line politically. How do people feel comfortable living lies and forcing others to live and practice falsehoods?
No matter how much I agree with the statement, when you force it, it becomes an insincere compelled speech.
Re: Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
#8I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
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He wasn’t asked to sign a statement that he was anti-racist. He was asked to sign a statement explaining how the academic work submitted to be presented “advanced… anti-racism goals.”
He’s quite right that not every academic paper need directly concern itself with the very specific set of ideologies contained within contemporary anti-rascist texts.
Re: Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
#9I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
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> newly adopted requirement that everybody presenting research at the group's conferences explain how their submission advances "equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals."
Diversity is fine. But every single piece of research has to be related to diversity? Is it not possible to do research on anything else that maybe doesn’t have anything to do with identity issues?
This is not a statement about promoting diversity, this is a statement that identity issues are the only thing that matters and only research that has to do with identity will be considered (for presentation at this conference)
An ideological monoculture is not a healthy intellectual environment.
Re: Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
#10I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.
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Haidt argues that much of the work that researchers do have no relationship to 'anti-racism' that Kendi popularized, or DEI goals in general.
It also appears that Haidt is taking SPSP's new direction literally - whereas you appear to be taking it figuratively. That SPSP's direction is a requirement for all members, not an interpretive statement that all members can come to terms with on their own accord. I think being compelled to a specific viewpoint by an institution is antithesis of freedom. Your comment seems like a huge dismissal of Haidt's view with this regard.
That is, if we are to trust that you looked at the linked article as you claim.