Posted on 09/03/2023 11:01:01 AM PDT by karpov
I first encountered DEI in exercise science in 2017. That year, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) published a position paper titled “Achieving equity in physical activity participation: ACSM experience and next steps.” Because ACSM is the leading professional body of exercise-science professors, students, and practitioners in the U.S., the organization has significant influence over higher-education curricula for exercise-science students. If ACSM was weighing in on a new topic, exercise-science faculty had little choice but to listen.
ACSM’s position paper declared the need to establish “equity in physical activity.” By this, the organization meant that the field should seek to engineer equal rates of physical-activity participation between demographic groups. Why? Because some demographic groups, such as women, black individuals, and individuals without high-school diplomas, are more inactive than their counterparts, with such differences attributed to various “social determinants” of physical activity.
As I explained in a 2018 article, the campaign for equity in physical activity, which represented a shift away from personalized exercise medicine to a top-down, group-based, social-engineering approach, is misguided for several reasons:
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What hasn’t been infiltrated by vile, leftist nutjobs?
At my age exercise is a sweat word
I’m sure they will decrease minority participation in basketball and football.
Not.
DEI means DIE for any organization.
Yet, without knowing any specifics, the DEI experts automatically assume that the high school dropout working two jobs to support his family has more “advantages” than the single college grad working for a major accounting firm simply because the former is white and the later is black/POC/AAPI.
Sure. Racist much?
The only group more deserving of disrespect and contempt than the DEI “professionals” are their enablers in government, business, and academia.
DEI kills everything it touches.
They need to apply DEI to makeup. Women have to reduce the volume of makeup to equal men. Ditto shoes.
I wonder how DEI is doing at burning man right now.
So I guess those $300 sneakers, didn’t lead to more exercise,
unless you count snatch and grab robberies...
I don’t believe in diversity. I believe in Unity. That is why I live in the UNITED STATES, and not the DIVERSIFIED States. I also believe that each person is an individual, with individual rights under the U.S. Constituion.
I started working out, in the basement, when I was 12.
Pushups,
Pullups, chinups, running.
You don’t need anything, just the desire to be fit.
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