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A debate on DEI will be held at MIT. The university’s DEI deans refuse to participate.
The College Fix ^ | 3/24/23 | Jennifer Kabbany

Posted on 03/25/2023 7:21:21 AM PDT by CFW

A debate on diversity, equity and inclusion is scheduled to soon take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An esteemed panel of scholars will tackle the question: “Should academic DEI programs be abolished?”

One group of individuals who will not be defending DEI at the upcoming event is the phalanx of highly paid diversity, equity and inclusion deans at MIT.

They were asked. They declined.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: college; die; indoctrination
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If your views cannot stand up to debate, then you have already lost the argument.
1 posted on 03/25/2023 7:21:22 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Destroying the meritocracy is akin to dismantling civilization.


2 posted on 03/25/2023 7:25:54 AM PDT by allendale
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To: CFW

They were asked. They declined.


We need to shine the light often and brightly.


3 posted on 03/25/2023 7:28:01 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: CFW

If any of us were asked to defend MAGA, could we, would we?


4 posted on 03/25/2023 7:28:55 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: CFW

If your views cannot stand up to debate, then you have already lost the argument.


No, any questioning of DEI is in itself racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, etc. etc., therefore there is no argument and there can be no debate. Bend the knee, bake the cake!
/s


5 posted on 03/25/2023 7:29:39 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: allendale

the only one of the six DEI Rulers
was at the MIT Media Lab (with Epstein?).

The rest appear to have NO background with Real Science
or Engineering.

https://news.mit.edu/2021/assistant-deans-diversity-equity-inclusion-0628


6 posted on 03/25/2023 7:29:42 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: CFW

I think the dei deans are afraid of having to justify their positions.


7 posted on 03/25/2023 7:29:48 AM PDT by Glennb51
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Looks like even the mighty “Tute” has capitulated to the woke army..

It is not in the nature of the woke army to ever be satiated...


8 posted on 03/25/2023 7:31:38 AM PDT by Bobalu ("A Republic, if you can keep it" - Democracy is a soft variant of communism...)
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To: CFW

So much for “inclusion”.


9 posted on 03/25/2023 7:35:36 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: CFW

“ If your views cannot stand up to debate, then you have already lost the argument. ”

This may be the single most misunderstood position held by the left. They have to shout down and silence opinions different from theirs even in the face of indisputable truth. Discussion isn’t an option.


10 posted on 03/25/2023 7:35:39 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Probably better than highly paid “Deans”.


11 posted on 03/25/2023 7:36:29 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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“Political correctness”, “woke”, and “DEI” cannot stand the bright light of open debate in the forum of ideas because their views are based on LIES and common sense and reason defeats them every time.

The Left stands on LIES which is why they’ll NEVER win a debate in the forum of ideas with anyone with a modicum of common sense and reason, and is why they and their utterly failed Marxist pro-tyranny ideas are forwarded by FORCE, NOT TRUTH.

On the other hand, freedom and the free market of the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers free from government coercion is based on common sense and reason and the truth of God-given individual rights and liberty.


12 posted on 03/25/2023 7:36:39 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: CFW

Destroying the meritocracy is akin to dismantling civilization.


13 posted on 03/25/2023 7:37:52 AM PDT by allendale
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Here is a fascinating discussion between Victor Hanson and Jordan Peterson on diversity and the Ivy League. The link is to that part of the YouTube but if you have time, listen to the entire video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUC2Xk2YW9M


14 posted on 03/25/2023 7:41:07 AM PDT by DeFault User (uirq)
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Thanks for that link. I’ll listen to it later today. Any video featuring VDH is well-worth anyone’s time.


15 posted on 03/25/2023 7:42:31 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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It’s not DEI....it’s DIE. Don’t let the Left define the terms.


16 posted on 03/25/2023 7:43:38 AM PDT by ealgeone
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So,,.
,.., the dean of ...

diversity

equity

And

INCLUSION

refuses to

INCLUDE

himself ?

,, must not be a true beleiver and is only in the job for the $$$$$!


17 posted on 03/25/2023 7:45:54 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Glennb51

> I think the dei deans are afraid of having to justify their positions.

More likely incapable of justifying their positions.

I’m trying to remember who it was who said, “If the facts are on your side, raise the facts. If the law is on your side, raise the law. If neither the facts nor the law are on your side, raise a mob.” The American Left *excels* at raising mobs.


18 posted on 03/25/2023 7:47:20 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (If Black Lives Matter, how do you explain Chicago?)
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To: cuz1961
His job as Dean in reality.... dGMVxfU
19 posted on 03/25/2023 7:48:39 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Diogenesis

What a waste of money and a source of irritation to MIT faculty and most students.


20 posted on 03/25/2023 7:50:39 AM PDT by ladyjane
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