What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by fluoridation on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:16AM (#42948758)

>If we called [DEI] intercultural competence, or intercultural teambuilding, or whatever, then it focuses on how we are a highly multicultural society in the US and that there are huge benefits to being able to connect and collaborate with people across a wide variety of cultures.

And it would be a lie because DEI is not solely about race.

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by jimkleiber on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:28AM (#42949851)

Culture isn't race. Not sure where I said race is the only thing of DEI.

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by caspper69 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:45PM (#42954037)

It might not be about race, per se, but when on the flip side the effect is to exclude people based on race or gender, it does kind of become about race, doesn’t it?

I don’t see DEI helping poor white males, for example, and there’s a lot of those in America. Even those whose families don’t own property and have never been to college.

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by jimkleiber on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:22AM (#42963913)

Then isn't that a call to improve DEI, not just get rid of it completely?

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