Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been sweeping the nation. It has been applied to all sorts of institutions, albeit, preeminently, education. It is time, it is past time, that this initiative be spread out, even further. To wit, it should be introduced into the realm of sports.
Bravo! Walter. Jonathan Swift would be proud of your modest proposal. I might add that the late and great Walter Williams made the same point regarding affirmative action. As to that nonsense, I believe we will hear from the Supreme court during the coming months, and it will be over in higher education.
Irony or deliberate malice? DEI is antithetical to “ diversity, equity and inclusion”. It is segregation, tribalism, exclusion and racial supremacy.
Yet, anybody with even a heavily condensed knowledge of Latin, etymology or basic Christianity would immediately recognize “Dei” translating to “God”.
Though I’m not Christian, neither do I believe in coincidence or any extreme leftist movement adopted by government as innocent. DEI is an intentionally provocative acronym.
Regarding the ban on SAT scores, I was working in an office where some of my fellow data analysts were looking into the issue for the University of California system. Their findings indicated that serious racial disparities emerge around the third grade, with almost none being associated with college admissions testing.
However, the point of Diversity/Inclusion/Equity-based discrimination is not to address the causes of such disparities (which have nothing to do with the admissions process) or to provide more educational opportunities for the groups that have been on the short end of such disparities (SATs being a pretty good predictor of an undergraduate's ability to perform on tests in college), but rather to overthrow meritocracy and repurpose academic credentials as privileges to be offered in compensation for past injustices and as proof of ideological conformity instead of as proof of intellectual competence. One doesn't need to test for scholastic aptitude if one is no longer interested in scholarship.
The next step in this process will be to assault class grading, authorship of research publications, and even invention submissions so that these outcomes also reflect "equity"-related quotas instead of merit. This step will be trickier, since it infringes the privileges of the faculty, but the administrators are seriously looking into such things. Another goal will be to increase the number of people receiving credentials from UC. I suspect this is because the universe of people who can be ideologically indoctrinated and considered employable by corporatist bureaucracies is much larger than the universe of people who can function as high-performing intellectuals. Obedience, not thinking, is what fiat dollar-fueled employers want these days.
Dear Bob: Thanks. I'm a big fan of Walter's. I think, but I'm not sure, that I'm his only co author:
Block, Walter E. and Walter E. Williams. 1981. "Male-Female Earnings Differentials: A Critical Reappraisal," The Journal of Labor Research, Vol. II, No. 2, Fall, pp. 385-388; http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/mfearningdifferentials.pdf
Dear Vincent: Yes, yes, yes. Thanks. Best regards, Walter
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Dear Gail: Thanks. Best regards, Walter
a brilliant insight. I never thought of that. thanks.
Bravo! Walter. Jonathan Swift would be proud of your modest proposal. I might add that the late and great Walter Williams made the same point regarding affirmative action. As to that nonsense, I believe we will hear from the Supreme court during the coming months, and it will be over in higher education.
Irony or deliberate malice? DEI is antithetical to “ diversity, equity and inclusion”. It is segregation, tribalism, exclusion and racial supremacy.
Yet, anybody with even a heavily condensed knowledge of Latin, etymology or basic Christianity would immediately recognize “Dei” translating to “God”.
Though I’m not Christian, neither do I believe in coincidence or any extreme leftist movement adopted by government as innocent. DEI is an intentionally provocative acronym.
Regarding the ban on SAT scores, I was working in an office where some of my fellow data analysts were looking into the issue for the University of California system. Their findings indicated that serious racial disparities emerge around the third grade, with almost none being associated with college admissions testing.
However, the point of Diversity/Inclusion/Equity-based discrimination is not to address the causes of such disparities (which have nothing to do with the admissions process) or to provide more educational opportunities for the groups that have been on the short end of such disparities (SATs being a pretty good predictor of an undergraduate's ability to perform on tests in college), but rather to overthrow meritocracy and repurpose academic credentials as privileges to be offered in compensation for past injustices and as proof of ideological conformity instead of as proof of intellectual competence. One doesn't need to test for scholastic aptitude if one is no longer interested in scholarship.
The next step in this process will be to assault class grading, authorship of research publications, and even invention submissions so that these outcomes also reflect "equity"-related quotas instead of merit. This step will be trickier, since it infringes the privileges of the faculty, but the administrators are seriously looking into such things. Another goal will be to increase the number of people receiving credentials from UC. I suspect this is because the universe of people who can be ideologically indoctrinated and considered employable by corporatist bureaucracies is much larger than the universe of people who can function as high-performing intellectuals. Obedience, not thinking, is what fiat dollar-fueled employers want these days.