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Graham Cunningham's avatar

Does DEI help or harm education?

"In 2017, at Evergreen State College, a biology professor had his class invaded by a frenzied mob hurling ‘Fuck you, you piece of shit’ type abuse. The professor, ironically a lifelong progressive, “had refused to obey an edict from Evergreen’s Director of First Peoples Multicultural Advising Services that all white faculty cancel their courses for a day and…white students were also ordered to absent themselves from the school to show ‘solidarity’.” Evergreen’s president expressed his “gratitude” for the mob’s “passion and courage”". This and dozens of other examples are examined in Heather Mac Donald's copious examination of DEI 'helpfulness' in her book The Diversity Delusion. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind

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Ken's avatar

“The central purpose of universities is to pursue truth.”

The central purpose has become the accumulation of assets. Money. Administrations are led by people chosen because that is where they excel. The money, in turn, comes from private-sector research grants, secondary only to government research grants. That tends to explain the interest in DEI.

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