The DIE ideology is not friend to peace and tolerance.
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Just exactly what am I supposed to do when I meet a graduate student or young professor, hired on DIE grounds? Manifest instant skepticism regarding their professional ability? What a slap in the face to a truly meritorious young outsider. The same social psychologists, broadly speaking, also casually regard conservatism (in the guise of “system justification”) as a form of psychopathology. Much of this can be attributed to her overtly leftist political agenda, as well as to her embeddedness within a sub-discipline of psychology, social psychology, so corrupt that it denied the existence of left-wing authoritarianism for six decades after World War II. The third, Professor Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard, remains recalcitrant. Two of the original designers of that test, Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek, have said as much, publicly. The Implicit Association test - the much-vaunted IAT, which purports to objectively diagnose implicit bias (that’s automatic racism and the like) is by no means powerful enough - valid and reliable enough - to do what it purports to do. Need I point out that implicit attitudes cannot - by the definitions generated by those who have made them a central point of our culture - be transformed by short-term explicit training? Assuming that those biases exist in the manner claimed, and that is a very weak claim, and I’m speaking scientifically here. Such training is now often a precondition to occupy a faculty position on a hiring committee. Some of my colleagues even allow themselves to undergo so-called anti-bias training, conducted by supremely unqualified Human Resources personnel, lecturing inanely and blithely and in an accusatory manner about theoretically all-pervasive racist/sexist/heterosexist attitudes. And they do it constantly, with various rationalizations and justifications, further corrupting what is already a stunningly corrupt enterprise. They all lie (excepting the minority of true believers) and they teach their students to do the same. How can I accept prospective researchers and train them in good conscience knowing their employment prospects to be minimal?Īll my craven colleagues must craft DIE statements to obtain a research grant. These facts rendered my job morally untenable. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. These have been imposed universally in academia, despite the fact that university hiring committees had already done everything reasonable for all the years of my career, and then some, to ensure that no qualified “minority” candidates were ever overlooked. This is partly because of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates (my preferred acronym: DIE). Article contentįirst, my qualified and supremely trained heterosexual white male graduate students (and I’ve had many others, by the way) face a negligible chance of being offered university research positions, despite stellar scientific dossiers. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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