Woo hoo!! Go team go! Thank you for your leadership in this area. May it be the first of a long line of dominoes going down! This is the way to fight reasonably and yet powerfully. DEI trainings are divisive and racist at their core.
You all will never get the credit you deserve, but you are saving the world anyway. It's very true to say that not all heroes wear capes. Thank you for your work.
A perspective I have not heard presented is that of the skeptic in regard to claims of racism, sexism, or any of the damning claims. When someone claims something is racist it is taken as true. There is no one saying what if it is not. What if it is just a conclusion someone drew based on his/her position and not on other possibilities? Accusations of racism are so common the word is essentially a filler word like “ummm” and “uh”.
If one holds that racism is horrible then one should consider the gravitas of accusations of racism and with the expectation that evidence supports the claim.
DEI (and CRT) have taken hold because they do not allow for honest debate or challenge to their positions. They decree and we obey. Any diversion (diversity) from this authority and one is damned and destroyed.
When someone makes a claim of racism then that person should provide the evidence and his/her rationale for the claim. Think about this. If someone calls you a murderer, do you think they should provide some evidence of a murder? That person’s “truth” or “lived experience” are meaningless without direct and verifiable facts. That person’s accusation needs to be challenged and dismissed if it doesn’t withstand scrutiny.
Is it possible that the prevalence of racism is more a product of misunderstandings and the reluctance to challenge the claims? Is it possible that claims of racism are more a reflection of the accuser than the accused” Perhaps we can do more good by having higher expectations for solid evidence and sound reasoning for any claims. Maybe the accuser is just wrong.
It's impossible to debate a "feeling". The core issue is that fundamentally unfalsifiable "just so" stories became wrapped in the cloth and language of professionalism (universities, law, medicine, etc) and thus had a patina of being respectable fields of endeavor. But 99.9% of what is out there is just empty, tendentious foolishness. This may sound a bit harsh but I have yet to meet a "smart" DEI professional. If anything is a fake job, these are fake jobs. The reduce the ROI of any institution they touch, do nothing for 'historically disadvantaged' groups, and just serve as self-enriching sinecures. Out with all of it.
I would conjecture that the ROI from DEI is in extreme deficit with regard to society. The DEI ecclesiasts serve only themselves at a great cost to society.
Of course that's true. At minimum think of the many hours of "training" that all employees, managers, etc. do every year on DEI "work". It produces nothing, but yields only static between employees, more HR complaints, etc. etc. In the extreme case take e.g. the University of Michigan - something like $30M of DEI salaries *annually*. Imagine what the equivalent of $30M in targeted scholarships could do - target on the basis of class and need, not race. A better world awaits us on the other side of all this nonsense.
I don't see anything positive of this part still being acceptable even in ameliorated terms. Still training into guilting white people exclusively. "Training on concepts such as ‘white privilege’, “white fragility’, implicit bias, or critical race theory can contribute positively to nuanced, important conversations about how to form a healthy and inclusive working environment." The assumption being that only so called White people have to be trained for bias or some type of guilt for relationships at work
Keep up the great work, FAIR! You are helping heal our country.
Bless you for fighting this hateful racist agenda. Born in 1968 and I never saw blatant institutional racism till this cropped up.
Racial discrimination is unlawful period.
How DEI struggle sessions and demonization of innocents were every considered acceptable in any setting is beyond comprehension.
I chalk it up to mass hysteria.
Woo hoo!! Go team go! Thank you for your leadership in this area. May it be the first of a long line of dominoes going down! This is the way to fight reasonably and yet powerfully. DEI trainings are divisive and racist at their core.
You all will never get the credit you deserve, but you are saving the world anyway. It's very true to say that not all heroes wear capes. Thank you for your work.
Awesome! Now we just need to multiply this by about 1,000.
You guys should make a pitch to Bill Ackman to fund a massive scaling-up, to the point where you're bigger than the ACLU in every state.
A perspective I have not heard presented is that of the skeptic in regard to claims of racism, sexism, or any of the damning claims. When someone claims something is racist it is taken as true. There is no one saying what if it is not. What if it is just a conclusion someone drew based on his/her position and not on other possibilities? Accusations of racism are so common the word is essentially a filler word like “ummm” and “uh”.
If one holds that racism is horrible then one should consider the gravitas of accusations of racism and with the expectation that evidence supports the claim.
DEI (and CRT) have taken hold because they do not allow for honest debate or challenge to their positions. They decree and we obey. Any diversion (diversity) from this authority and one is damned and destroyed.
When someone makes a claim of racism then that person should provide the evidence and his/her rationale for the claim. Think about this. If someone calls you a murderer, do you think they should provide some evidence of a murder? That person’s “truth” or “lived experience” are meaningless without direct and verifiable facts. That person’s accusation needs to be challenged and dismissed if it doesn’t withstand scrutiny.
Is it possible that the prevalence of racism is more a product of misunderstandings and the reluctance to challenge the claims? Is it possible that claims of racism are more a reflection of the accuser than the accused” Perhaps we can do more good by having higher expectations for solid evidence and sound reasoning for any claims. Maybe the accuser is just wrong.
It's impossible to debate a "feeling". The core issue is that fundamentally unfalsifiable "just so" stories became wrapped in the cloth and language of professionalism (universities, law, medicine, etc) and thus had a patina of being respectable fields of endeavor. But 99.9% of what is out there is just empty, tendentious foolishness. This may sound a bit harsh but I have yet to meet a "smart" DEI professional. If anything is a fake job, these are fake jobs. The reduce the ROI of any institution they touch, do nothing for 'historically disadvantaged' groups, and just serve as self-enriching sinecures. Out with all of it.
I would conjecture that the ROI from DEI is in extreme deficit with regard to society. The DEI ecclesiasts serve only themselves at a great cost to society.
Of course that's true. At minimum think of the many hours of "training" that all employees, managers, etc. do every year on DEI "work". It produces nothing, but yields only static between employees, more HR complaints, etc. etc. In the extreme case take e.g. the University of Michigan - something like $30M of DEI salaries *annually*. Imagine what the equivalent of $30M in targeted scholarships could do - target on the basis of class and need, not race. A better world awaits us on the other side of all this nonsense.
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I don't see anything positive of this part still being acceptable even in ameliorated terms. Still training into guilting white people exclusively. "Training on concepts such as ‘white privilege’, “white fragility’, implicit bias, or critical race theory can contribute positively to nuanced, important conversations about how to form a healthy and inclusive working environment." The assumption being that only so called White people have to be trained for bias or some type of guilt for relationships at work
Great post, Chris…