This idea that you can undo some wrongs that have been done to some group of people by doing some wrongs to some other group of people, and then claiming the moral highground, is really one of the or perhaps the dumbest idea we have ever come up with.
replyThe comment above says "uplifting" could you not counter some wrongs by doing some rights?
replyNo I understood the framing. But if you privilege all groups except one, you're not uplifting but discriminating.
replyAre you just talking hypothetically about an abstract harm that might occur in an imaginary world or do you think that's what DEI is?
replyBeing in academia, I'm facing it almost every single day.
replyYou're not able to publish cutting edge research in an era where you have LLMs and Arxiv?
replyAcademia seems more open and competitive today than ever before, with more weight and influence given to more universities around the world
Are you denying that that's what DEI is?
replyBasically all competitive sports in the US work like this
replyIf you win the championship, you get the worst draft picks for next season
Do you believe they discriminate against winning teams and reduced the quality of the sport? The Yankees definitely complained a lot about it
I don't know; we also grow corn for ethanol and add it to gas.
replyNo child left behind
replySpending money to give scholarships to people who are coming out of 300 years of tariff imposed poverty to access the same education as those who can easily afford to pay their food/housing costs in college is "the dumbest idea we have ever come up with" ?
replyPlease recall we paid more in reparations to Germany post WW2 than we paid to India post-colonialism
We seem to not have much problem undo'ing the Nazis' wrongs with our money, why do we have a problem uplifting the Nigerians?
yee old Billionaire trolley problem "If we do anything, one white dude with too much money might suffer"
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