Posted on 01/04/2024 8:46:53 AM PST by MtnClimber
The revealed truth of DEI is that what Ms. Gay represents is an order of magnitude more important than what she actually is.
Harvard President Claudine Gay’s recent testimony before the U.S. Congress and subsequent exposure of her academic history have revealed much about the true nature and purpose of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology.
The most significant “A-ha!” moment from le affair Gay is that DEI only “works” in noncompetitive environments such as government and academia. The principles of “diversity” and “equity” implicitly assume that entities and organizations will continue along their current trajectory regardless of who’s in charge. DEI discounts merit, ability, and leadership and assumes as a matter of ideological gospel that “diversity” will more than make up for their loss.
And although this might be true in glacial bureaucracies at Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Education, or Los Angeles City Hall where funding rolls in at the start of every fiscal year and there is virtually no accountability for poor performance, DEI cannot survive in competitive environments where outcomes truly matter.
Harvard is the paradigm example. The university will continue to exist despite Ms. Gay’s shortcomings, as it has for centuries. Eager students from around the world will line up for a chance at a place in the incoming class. Tuition and grants will continue to pour into the university’s coffers. Because of its secure position in academia and absence of any real competitive threats, Harvard has the luxury of making the conscious decision to place a person in a leadership position who, on the available evidence, is unqualified and incapable of effective leadership.
Truth be told, nobody cares whether Gay can lead a university or the quality of her academic work, because she has not one speck of impact on Americans’ day-to-day...
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Discrimination, Indoctrination, Exclusion
Like unions
Gay is a liar and a thief. Unqualified and no kind of example for anyone.
... and, unfortunately, like Churches, too. They are ripe for the plucking. Too many “institutions are parasites with no accountability and no market mechanisms to keep them in check.
Yes, unions or a government bureaucracy, would support a DEI environment. DEI is the control system for replacing capitalism with the new communism. For the new communism to work, they must first disconnect the old capitalism, like buying a new Apple phone. It is like pulling the rug out from under everything that we have known, and resetting it with a new generation who was never programmed with Western thought and culture.
Actually, if the upper-middle-class population finds out what is really going on at these elite universities, and decides to send their kids elsewhere, then there might be a substantial impact. Most of the money comes from rich alumni, and that funding might gradually disappear.
Nobody cares about the poor souls out in the Department of Paleontology.
DEI can only exist in both competitive and non-competitive environments where actual success is not desired
DEI cannot exist in any environment - competitive or otherwise, for any extended period of time. DEI is antithetical to all of the things needed to run a successful organization.
And in an environment where results and decisions just don’t matter. In other words, it is stupidity.
DEI is 1984 and it worked
Their medical school is still decent so why can't you go to a state university and then transfer to their medical school? That'll cut off some of the fat in higher ed.
DUMB EVIL IDIOTS
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