America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back

Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by skywhopper on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:54AM (#43704217)

You’ve been conned if you think overactive DEI was anything more than a minor annoyance in 99% of American universities. Did some people overdo it in a destructive way? Of course. But it wasn’t anything that was going to lead to major problems. The problems come from the folks who can’t just roll their eyes and move on but instead feel personally attacked and hold a permanent grudge instead of realizing that they themselves probably weren’t all that special.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by zmgsabst on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @10:01AM (#43705708)

Harvard and UNC lost lawsuits about their DEI programs in admissions being illegal racism.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by habinero on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:31PM (#43710043)

That doesn't counteract the point being made.

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @05:48PM (#43710775)

Uh, I think it does. A lot of people, myself included, have major problems when "overactive DEI" leads to race being a primary, if not the primary, factor in hiring and admissions decisions. This isn't something one should just "roll their eyes over" and move on.

FWIW, that was my original approach, and I thought that the worst excesses of "wokeism" were just caricatures that the right was using to paint all on the left with a broad brush, so I was pretty dismayed when, over time, I felt that a lot of this "race first" thinking had infested many areas of elite universities. Many university professors (ones who would not have in any way identified with being "on the right") who I deeply respect have spoken out about this, sometimes at great professional cost.

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