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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by UncleMeat on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:11PM (#24903138)
Notably, TJ isn't a college.

And a full 12% of surveyed people in the article you cite think that testing should play no role in college admissions. It 12% is below the bar for "extreme" then a tremendous number of beliefs that are common among the tech crowd should be labeled as "extreme".

I think you are using a rhetorical trick to retreat. I'm not coming for your children.

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by hitekker on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:43AM (#24904760)
Separately from the admissions testing debate: what is your view on the "gatekeepers of white supremacy" and the assorted "I am a racist" declarations?
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by UncleMeat on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:51AM (#24906895)
I don't believe that you believe that this is actually separate. Why else would my opinion matter here?

I know very little about HR departments and bias training. I do know a lot of academics who study race in fields like history and sociology and I do know that people scream at some of them and call them anti-white even though their scholarship is very rigorous. So I would expect there to be a range of quality among bias training and that both high and low quality bias training causes certain groups of people to lash out. But I also have basically no information here.

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by hitekker on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:40AM (#24908472)
Well one matter is about inclusivity and the other is about innocent people being coerced into declaring themselves racist.

Separating the two helps the audience determine if you’re speaking in good faith, or if you’re trying to rationalize and cover up an injustice.

Screeds generally indicate the latter.