[hanamizu]

Nobody I know complains about racial BS in STEM;

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But there is an outcry from the usual suspects about the lack of ‘diversity’ in the STEM fields and how steps need to be taken to ‘correct’ it. It’s almost become a cliche how the movie Idiocracy is turning out to be, in fact, a documentary.

[kearnyirish2]

I believe the salaries are too high for the normal seeding of departments with useless tokens (as is often done in more clerical/administrative work) - and the skill sets are in such demand that those possessing them won’t tolerate BS from tokens.