Posted on Mar 12, 2024
Bans on diversity, equity and inclusion may halt Latino progress in higher education
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Anti-DEI laws are wiping out tools helping Hispanic students enroll and graduate. “The elephant in the room is racism,” the president of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities said.
Bans on diversity, equity and inclusion may halt Latino progress in higher education
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Texas has energetically climbed aboard the conservative and right-wing campaign to eliminate public, corporate and nonprofit diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
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PV2 Douglas Hainilne
This is an important issue. I don't think either an uncritical embrace of, or a total rejection of, the basic idea behind 'DEI' is correct.
We have two worthy objectives, which at the moment are in tension with each other:
(1) to have the best military possible within the resources available to us, which includes having the most intelligent and competent leadership we can find of that military, and to arrange things so that the combat efficiency of every unit is not compromised, and ...
(2) to keep the military as close to the American people as possible, so that it doesn't become a caste which a significant number of Americans don't identify with. Since race and sex are primary components of self-identity, this means that, everything else being equal, it is a positive good to have a 'diverse' military.
It would be nice if (1) and (2) were easy to achieve at the same time, without any trade-offs, but they aren't. We need to have an unemotional, cold-blooded, serious discussion about this. Of course, that's not possible in America today, but we ought to try. It would be useful if Rallypoint set up a platform for this.
We have two worthy objectives, which at the moment are in tension with each other:
(1) to have the best military possible within the resources available to us, which includes having the most intelligent and competent leadership we can find of that military, and to arrange things so that the combat efficiency of every unit is not compromised, and ...
(2) to keep the military as close to the American people as possible, so that it doesn't become a caste which a significant number of Americans don't identify with. Since race and sex are primary components of self-identity, this means that, everything else being equal, it is a positive good to have a 'diverse' military.
It would be nice if (1) and (2) were easy to achieve at the same time, without any trade-offs, but they aren't. We need to have an unemotional, cold-blooded, serious discussion about this. Of course, that's not possible in America today, but we ought to try. It would be useful if Rallypoint set up a platform for this.
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A truly terrible article. Very very long and it doesn’t explain the premise of what is happening so people can understand the issues here. MHO
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