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Adrienne Scott's avatar

About damn time.

Mandatory DEI statements are akin to swearing fealty to a religious order and have no place in an academic institution (unless that institution is specifically religious). As a former academic, I loathe what academia has become and can't imagine having to swear an oath of fealty that leads to researching only topics that affirm the orthodoxy of the woke.

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Terry M.'s avatar

This is a lucid and cogent statement of common sense. I am glad that a Harvard law professor chose to make it. I would however have welcomed a definition of “social justice” that includes the full range of disadvantaged groups including poor working class white people who are excluded from the DEI catechism and thus expose its true exclusionary nature.

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