1.1 When did we start pretending to care about diversity?
He says 1978. What? He's fabricating a story to prop up his flawed belief system.
1.2 Diversity is intellectual?
It's good because it promotes a good education. What? It's far more about that: representation, opportunities for historically marginalized groups, challenging the status quo with ideas of how things should be done, etc.
2.1 The argument for affirmative action
How did we get to affirmative action? Are we back in the 1980's view of how we are supposed to level the playing field?
> by diversifying the racial composition of the student body, we will be indirectly producing intellectual diversity.
Yikes. He's totally missing the point around opportunities, exposure to diverse backgrounds that force you break out of your own stereotypical thinking...
2.2 Idealogy
> The most “woke” people are the ones who aggressively try to silence all dissent and to exclude conservatives, libertarians, etc., from the Academy.
This is a myth. Conservatives tend to get excluded because their whole goal is to exclude others based on their religion, their desire to prevent others from being able to become self actualized (ex against same sex marriage), their support for laws and institutions that maintain the status quo...
2.3 Other countries
> the most diverse people would naturally be those from other countries.
Yikes. He's totally gone off the rails now. Completely misses the point of what DEI is about.
2.4 Other races
> Affirmative action would also apply more strongly to, say, immigrants from Iran, or Korea, or Israel, than to black people (or anyone else) from our own society.
face palm that is just so painful to read. Yes, on the surface it's true, but not what DEI is actually trying to address in the US.
2.5 social class
> rural white people would get more affirmative action points than middle class suburban blacks.
lol this guy doesn't understand racism very well.
2.6 Proportionality
His point: you don't need a proportional representation for diversity.
And...? Not sure why this is even here. Seems pretty obvious.
2.7. Non of this is happening
> Conclusion: By and large, they don’t care about diversity. They’re just lying, in a really transparent way, because they think it gives them a patina of legal legitimacy.
lol my god how did we land here?
3. Conclusion
> “Diversity, inclusion, and equity” refers to ideological uniformity, exclusion, and discrimination.
Sigh. He really has no clue what he's writing about or how this works outside of his world view. I can't shake the feeling how sad I from having slogged through this. I'll chalk this up to being useless noise that's out of touch on what's going on in the larger world.