Posted on 12/21/2021 4:24:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) amounts to the complaint that there are too many white males on the faculty and the demand that this be radically changed, forthwith. It would appear, at least to the grievants, that females, "people of color" ("colored people" is no longer allowed to be said at university, despite the continued existence of the National Association of Colored People), and members of the LGBT community cannot really learn from straight white male professors. Students with these characteristics, it turns out, need role models in the professoriate from their own demographics if they are to prosper in higher education. Numerous academic job notifications now routinely require adherence to DEI sensibilities.
I don't want to criticize the students responsible for these complaints. They are young kids, and, presumably, don't yet know any better. If anyone is to blame for this new campus initiative, it is their teachers (many of whom are woke white males).
The main charge in one particular case is that the student body is less than 40% white male, while professors of the same ilk constitute about 75% of the faculty. Out of a board of trustees of roughly three dozen, almost two dozen are white men. The conclusion would appear to be that there should be something akin to proportional representation. The present situation is rejected as "shocking," "bizarre." As a result, students, all of them, are subjected to a "white centric" education where "whiteness" predominates.
There is more wrong here than you can shake a stick at. First of all, there is no such thing as white math, or black logic, or Asian economics, or male physics, or female chemistry, or homosexual astronomy, or heterosexual philosophy. This may or may not apply to grievance studies (black studies, gay studies, feminist studies),
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Marxist “Critical Theory” in action. Criticize everything. It all deserves to be torn down.
We should really write that as Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
For one thing, it makes more sense growing from milder to stronger.
For another... DIE is the perfect acronym for this.
Women are dramatically underrepresented among the prison population, as well as on death row.
Once we fix these inequities we can talk about professorships.
Yeah: "White people: Just DIE already!"
Regards,
That is the way to do it! Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity - DIE
Neither extreme diversity nor any perversity is good for a society.
This is all the rage in Corp America
Whites and Asians often excell. That makes black and brown people feel bad. Straight people don’t have the anxiety or drama of alphabet people.
Liberal logic then deems straight whites problematic.
Conservative logic would seek to better educate all, rather than demonize those who excel and have their act somewhat together.
Ain’t the truth!
Oh, oops... Ain’t that the truth!
It makes sense for what they want certain people to do.
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