Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements
by jppittma on Sunday May 05, 2024 @10:38PM
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I don't know if or not this is "coherent," but my experience has been that the type of person to oppose something like this is more often than not the type of person we were trying to filter out anyway. There may be some false negatives of course, but in terms of keeping the klan from high positions in your institution, this sort of thing seems to work.
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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements
by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @10:55PM
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> There may be some false negatives of course, but in terms of keeping the klan from high positions in your institution, this sort of thing seems to work.
You've highlighted exactly the problem so many people have with these DEI statements in the first place. If people have some (IMO valid) disagreements about what DEI has become, they're basically bucketed in with "the klan". So instead, people just shut up and tell reviewers what they know they want to hear, and this ideological litmus test becomes the norm.