#DIVERSITY

Citizen of Somewhere Else

CitizenSE

I have to disagree with this one. Finishing up our F21 teaching schedule's first complete draft and struck by how aggressive I've gotten at offering upper-level writing courses to make

Joe Hogan

jwhogan42

Something I've thought about a lot in the last couple of days it that the same country whose scientists and infrastructure produced not one but TWO highly effective vaccines in

Lauren

sapheneias

Ethno-nationalism is only complex when we’re talking about European countries. No one would care if we said ‘Chinese is an ethnicity AND a nationality. Moving to China doesn’t make me

Ananya Chakravarti

achakrava

1/ Zoom academia may have intriguing possibilities I hadn't thought about. I tuned into #SHEAR2020 out of pure curiosity. I would never have entered that conference IRL. I am sure

James

214american

1) There is an agenda against White Americans.This is being done through a variety of ways.I'll explain the situation in this thread. 2) Demonizing our ancestorsSlavery, lynchings, Jim Crow laws,

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

For all the epidemiologists who were furious at banks' initial horribly confounded correlation analyses of COVID outcomes across countries, I would've thought one of them would recognize the equal absurdity

Nat Cutter

NatCutter

Bloodthirsty pirates, white slaves, renegadoes and raging Turks. The scourge of Christendom. Terrorists, hostage-takers, treaty-breakers, an early modern ISIS. Or participants in a Mediterranean-wide system of maritime predation, slavery an

Dino Digma

leonardinosaur

This is an interesting interpretation of these data. I, too, have been deeply inspired by Dr. Fauci and all of the front-line health care heroes. In addition, I wonder how

Samantha Shannon

say_shannon

I am . . . not sure of my feelings on this statue.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years I understand what it's trying to do, and I know the artist is a woman and w

john milbank

johnmilbank3

James Hawes notes that Harry Potter turned round the fortunes of public schools. Their products now over-dominate acting, media, sports, Oxbridge. But have state schools and universities learnt from this

Geoffrey Miller

primalpoly

Here's the new 'Inclusivity Statement' that's in the syllabus for all of the college courses I teach. The goal is to promote genuine diversity of opinion & to nudge students

Indivisible Guide

IndivisibleTeam

We’re thrilled to hear that @KamalaHarris is @JoeBiden’s choice for Vice President. She brings energy and historic diversity to the Democratic ticket as the first Black and South Asian woman

Quattro-Whiskey-Guns

dark_knight1587

Another new week, another thread to clean up the dirt being tossed around by #S386 & #HR1044 opponents. This includes a lot of AILA atty's and a lot of "scholars"

Madina Touré

madinatoure

.@EdWriters is hosting a webinar on its new national report on the state of the education beat in 2021. Caroline Hendrie, EWA's executive director, says they surveyed more than 400

NOOR

NTagouri

A THREAD on: media coverage on Muslims, France and the questions we aren’t asking enough.Today’s episode of NYT’s The Daily about Islam/France/ Laïcite was incredibly unsettling. 1/ This is a

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

Video from a real DEI training at work where it is implied that people answer 4 to "2+2" because we've been conditioned to do so. The point raised next is

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