You're welcome Walter. I should mention that a Diversity/Inclusion/Equity-based purge of the Big Data wonks might not be necessary to frustrate efforts at woke central planning at some universities. One might think that measuring whether or not quotas are being complied with would be simple, but in a vast bureaucracy that's not the case.
Prior to my retirement a little over a year ago, I had the interesting challenge of reporting faculty salary data to various annual national surveys on behalf of the University of California's campuses. These surveys still require binary gender categories (how quaint), but UC's personnel database had already transitioned to self-identified non-binary genders for new hires.
Even worse, the new non-binary variable has a generic default value that offers no clue at all about what an employee's gender is (binary or otherwise), and many new hires simply don't bother to pick a non-default value. Filling out these surveys thus turned into a massive exercise in having to make arbitrary gender assignments for thousands of faculty members, especially in tracks where the turnover is high (e.g. certain types of lecturers).
Of course, this challenge pales in comparison to efforts by UC's leadership to conduct woke policing using other databases that lack their own race/ethnicity/gender profiles and that don't have good linkages to the personnel database either. A systemwide Vice President bluntly told me, after looking through a list of names, that UC's inventors are "too white and too Asian," so of course a committee had to be formed to figure out how to link the inventions database with the personnel data so they could track down the sources of this monstrous racial disparity. Never mind that the inventions database wasn't even designed with data reporting in mind; back in the bad old days of privilege (a legacy of slavery no doubt) we thought that keeping the royalties flowing into the University was more important than making sure that invention disclosures could be tracked with respect to the canons of diversity, inclusion, and equity. That data task was moving into the realm of fuzzy matching and artificial intelligence as I was leaving.
Despicable displays of this very dangerous,disingenuous construct I’ve witnessed have been incited by flaccid, pallid,male elites and academics.
Bret Weinstein,a classic liberal tenured professor at Evergreen College,fell prey to a violent, abusive mob of BLM activist students during a literal campus siege.Hed committed the unthinkable-refused capitulating to “No Whites Day”.He was surrounded by feral thugs,spewing antisemitic hatred,threatened with death and NOBODY came to his aid.Not the dean,campus security nor a single student..He managed to escape..barely.Nobody was held accountable.
Another hideous , surreal racially motivated event was Biden’s Philadelphia address.Standing at a podium in front of a historical building bathed in blood red lighting with what resembled a Wolfsangel banner, two armed soldiers, he ranted and gesticulated wildly.Spewing disgusting accusations of White Supremacy,systemic racism ,fascism naming Trump supporters and extremist far- alt right fringe Conservative “The Enemy”. Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud.A scene stolen from her Nazi propaganda films,Biden was Hitler incarnate.It was terrifying.I’m Jewish and the fanatical insanity was visceral. Hitler redux . Naming half of America Nazis .
Again, zero accountability.It didn’t go unnoticed.A swathe of lifelong liberal Democrats abdicated, many were Jewish, several were well-known public figures.The most formerly iconic- Naomi Wolf.She has experienced an epiphany and is incredibly brave and vocal.
The UniParty Establishment and Marxist no longer recognizable Dem Death Cult- silent.
It continues and metastasizes. without pause. The House Investigations are horror shows.Attacking and threatening witnesses and whistleblowers, exacerbating the racial onslaught with a side dish of the antisemitism card spewed by the most virulent antisemites…the Left. Zero accountability.McConnell? MIA.
Having established that mathematics is racist and sexist, it is urgent that we take a critical look at statistics and at the data sciences too. There can be little doubt that such fields are also an expression of a eurocentric/patriarchal cultural imperialism that seeks to suppress diversity, inclusion, and equity in the name of arbitrary conceptual constructs like "merit" and "objectivity" that originated as self-serving inventions of past generations of oppressors and have been subsequently propagated through unconscious cognitive biases to corrupt the culture and uphold the power structure.
The plan to destroy American sovereignty is quite expansive. Each day is replete with another “ catastrophic” event serving to distract and incite fear, divide and create greater government dependency.
Huxley presciently warned of the dystopian future we have entered. Willful slavery.” You will love your servitude”
All the “ isms” are a deliberate, long planned cog in the wheel. The “ Pandemic”, bogus Ukraine/Putin conflict, the climate hysteria, increasing surveillance , weaponized Intel, political prisoners, censorship, trans-activism, forced “ vaccinations”, lockdowns, stripping away every right and freedom guaranteed in our Constitution, banking and currency collapse, small business and brick and mortar closures, seized farmland, supply chain glitches, restricting and banning our essential creature comforts, wildfires, train derailments, explosions,soaring inflation… no such thing as coincidence.
We’ve been sleepwalking for several decades.This didn’t happen overnight. It was years in the making. We were too complacent.
Dear Gail: Who knew? Thanks for educating me. Best regards, Walter
Who knew? Oy!
We have a mutual friend. A wunderkind.
Dear Gail. Wow. Thanks. Walter
You rock, Walter! Always enjoy your colorful phraseology.Which succinctly hits the nail on the head.
All I can say is that people with penises can indeed get pregnant. My proof? Arnold Schwartzenegger in one of his movies!
Dear Marina: Yes that's too true. Best regards, Walter
Dear Vincent: Well said. No. I take that back. Rather, magnificently said. Wow, you da man! Thanks, Walter
You're welcome Walter. I should mention that a Diversity/Inclusion/Equity-based purge of the Big Data wonks might not be necessary to frustrate efforts at woke central planning at some universities. One might think that measuring whether or not quotas are being complied with would be simple, but in a vast bureaucracy that's not the case.
Prior to my retirement a little over a year ago, I had the interesting challenge of reporting faculty salary data to various annual national surveys on behalf of the University of California's campuses. These surveys still require binary gender categories (how quaint), but UC's personnel database had already transitioned to self-identified non-binary genders for new hires.
Even worse, the new non-binary variable has a generic default value that offers no clue at all about what an employee's gender is (binary or otherwise), and many new hires simply don't bother to pick a non-default value. Filling out these surveys thus turned into a massive exercise in having to make arbitrary gender assignments for thousands of faculty members, especially in tracks where the turnover is high (e.g. certain types of lecturers).
Of course, this challenge pales in comparison to efforts by UC's leadership to conduct woke policing using other databases that lack their own race/ethnicity/gender profiles and that don't have good linkages to the personnel database either. A systemwide Vice President bluntly told me, after looking through a list of names, that UC's inventors are "too white and too Asian," so of course a committee had to be formed to figure out how to link the inventions database with the personnel data so they could track down the sources of this monstrous racial disparity. Never mind that the inventions database wasn't even designed with data reporting in mind; back in the bad old days of privilege (a legacy of slavery no doubt) we thought that keeping the royalties flowing into the University was more important than making sure that invention disclosures could be tracked with respect to the canons of diversity, inclusion, and equity. That data task was moving into the realm of fuzzy matching and artificial intelligence as I was leaving.
yes, indeed. Racism is indeed racist. I never realized that
some people talk like that in a serious way
Despicable displays of this very dangerous,disingenuous construct I’ve witnessed have been incited by flaccid, pallid,male elites and academics.
Bret Weinstein,a classic liberal tenured professor at Evergreen College,fell prey to a violent, abusive mob of BLM activist students during a literal campus siege.Hed committed the unthinkable-refused capitulating to “No Whites Day”.He was surrounded by feral thugs,spewing antisemitic hatred,threatened with death and NOBODY came to his aid.Not the dean,campus security nor a single student..He managed to escape..barely.Nobody was held accountable.
Another hideous , surreal racially motivated event was Biden’s Philadelphia address.Standing at a podium in front of a historical building bathed in blood red lighting with what resembled a Wolfsangel banner, two armed soldiers, he ranted and gesticulated wildly.Spewing disgusting accusations of White Supremacy,systemic racism ,fascism naming Trump supporters and extremist far- alt right fringe Conservative “The Enemy”. Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud.A scene stolen from her Nazi propaganda films,Biden was Hitler incarnate.It was terrifying.I’m Jewish and the fanatical insanity was visceral. Hitler redux . Naming half of America Nazis .
Again, zero accountability.It didn’t go unnoticed.A swathe of lifelong liberal Democrats abdicated, many were Jewish, several were well-known public figures.The most formerly iconic- Naomi Wolf.She has experienced an epiphany and is incredibly brave and vocal.
The UniParty Establishment and Marxist no longer recognizable Dem Death Cult- silent.
It continues and metastasizes. without pause. The House Investigations are horror shows.Attacking and threatening witnesses and whistleblowers, exacerbating the racial onslaught with a side dish of the antisemitism card spewed by the most virulent antisemites…the Left. Zero accountability.McConnell? MIA.
Having established that mathematics is racist and sexist, it is urgent that we take a critical look at statistics and at the data sciences too. There can be little doubt that such fields are also an expression of a eurocentric/patriarchal cultural imperialism that seeks to suppress diversity, inclusion, and equity in the name of arbitrary conceptual constructs like "merit" and "objectivity" that originated as self-serving inventions of past generations of oppressors and have been subsequently propagated through unconscious cognitive biases to corrupt the culture and uphold the power structure.
The plan to destroy American sovereignty is quite expansive. Each day is replete with another “ catastrophic” event serving to distract and incite fear, divide and create greater government dependency.
Huxley presciently warned of the dystopian future we have entered. Willful slavery.” You will love your servitude”
All the “ isms” are a deliberate, long planned cog in the wheel. The “ Pandemic”, bogus Ukraine/Putin conflict, the climate hysteria, increasing surveillance , weaponized Intel, political prisoners, censorship, trans-activism, forced “ vaccinations”, lockdowns, stripping away every right and freedom guaranteed in our Constitution, banking and currency collapse, small business and brick and mortar closures, seized farmland, supply chain glitches, restricting and banning our essential creature comforts, wildfires, train derailments, explosions,soaring inflation… no such thing as coincidence.
We’ve been sleepwalking for several decades.This didn’t happen overnight. It was years in the making. We were too complacent.
Racism is racist.