#dei — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dei, aggregated by home.social.
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💟 One of my favorite quotes from Coretta Scott King at The Embrace. A reminder that love for humanity isn't passive—it’s the driving force for civic courage, community action, taking personal risks, and working to dismantle structural inequalities for people you might never even meet.
📍1965 Freedom Plaza, Boston, MA
#CorettaScottKing #TheEmbrace #BostonCommon #1965FreedomPlaza #CivilRights #Equality #Humanity #equity #CommunityAction #BostonMA #MLK #Love #dei #history #vote
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"Mediocre people did not arrive in elite institutions with DEI. They were already there! And when a professor of any majority demographic turns out to be mediocre, fraudulent, abusive, intellectually unserious, or simply wrong, we rarely ask whether his appointment proves that the majority demographic are systematically unqualified for academia. He or she or they failed. Not their whole race or gender"
- Julian Vasquez Heilig in the above essay.
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Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig of Western Michigan University on how #TylerAustinHarper correctly identifies problems in #HigherEd, only to misidentify the causes, and hence, the solutions.
"Tyler [Austin Harper] repeatedly takes evidence of **institutions behaving badly around race** and transforms it into evidence that **racial equity has caused institutions to behave badly.** Those are profoundly different arguments."
https://cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/the-truths-that-failed-tyler-austin-harper/
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“ #Trump admin recommends stripping American Bar Association of law school oversight authority.
The ABA, which accredits roughly 200 law schools, has come under GOP criticism over promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion ( #DEI ) standards.”
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Trump admin moves to strip bar association’s power to accredit law schools. #Trump & #Republicans have accused American Bar Association of liberal bias promoting #DEI pushing a political agenda in law schools. Education Dept report said ABA which accredits nearly 200 #lawschools failed 2 keep both sides of its house “separate & independent,” undermining effectiveness as an accreditor. Report https://surveys.ope.ed.gov/erecognition/#/public-documents:~:text=American%20Bar%20Association%2C%20Council%20of%20the%20Section%20of%20Legal%20Education%20and%20Admissions%20to%20the%20Bar - search title ABA Council of Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar
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#Trump & #Republicans have accused American Bar Association #ABA of liberal bias, promoting #DEI, pushing a political agenda in #lawschools. #Education Department report said ABA, which accredits nearly 200 law schools, had failed to keep both sides of its house “separate and independent,” undermining its effectiveness as an accreditor. Report - "American Bar Association, Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar" - embedded in this report - https://surveys.ope.ed.gov/erecognition/#/public-documents:~:text=American%20Bar%20Association%2C%20Council%20of%20the%20Section%20of%20Legal%20Education%20and%20Admissions%20to%20the%20Bar
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@MugsysRapSheet
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"If a #DEI hire is someone who got the job despite not being qualified to do the job, then we just described the entire T**** White House." 👍
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Resharing what a former student of mine wrote on LinkedIn here, because I am glad that our work @[email protected] in #anthropology seems to pay off. #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #DEI is a practice, not a policy !
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Modell258: Chiara Sabadin is a researcher in Mathematics Education, with a focus in Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) in Mathematics and founder and co-lead of the Women in Mathematics group of the University of Regensburg.
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‘Alarm bells should start ringing when we discover that one of the first people to publicly accuse #Arday of plagiarism and fabrication was #nathancofnas .
Cofnas is an advocate of ‘hereditarianism’, the belief that heredity plays a central role in determining human personality and intelligence…As a Cambridge academic, he published a blog arguing that ‘Only hereditarianism stops the cycle of wokism’, and that #DEI was anti-white and anti-male.’
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Trying to raise some confidence that (most) people are good, see how keeping values is creating value:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/dei-policy-company-performance?CMP=GTUS_email
And for anyone interested to make life a little bit more interesting for all the other companies: Here is a list who really deserves your #boycott :
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The three women of different (or no) faiths all want the same thing. A recently filed attempt to remove #Christian teachings from #PublicSchools used #StateLaw - not federal - and is awaiting #appeal.
(Christians know they're breaking the law. But they're convinced that we're possessed by #demons, so they don't care. Hard to argue with these people.)
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #DEI #ChristoFascism #parental #rights #TenCommandments #ReligiousFreedom #freedom #from #religion
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/31/texas-ten-commandments-lawsuit-houston-parental-rights/ -
R.I.P. Jason Arday (1985-2026)
Jason Arday, pictured in 2023I read the terrible news about the death of Jason Arday on Friday evening. The first thing I want to do is express heartfelt condolences to his family – especially his wife and two children – and his friends and former colleagues and my hope that the media who hounded Prof. Arday to his death will at least give them some space to mourn his loss.
The word “tragedy” is often misused, applied to any event that is sad which this certainly is. The case of Jason Arday is a true tragedy in the sense arising from Greek drama: the central protagonists are always flawed characters who makes bad decisions, but are propelled relentlessly towards their fate by forces entirely beyond their control. Once the right-wing media lynch mob got hold of this story they were never going to back off. This is just some of the coverage from one newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Source: BlueskyYes, Arday did bad things, but the media attention was utterly disproportionate. Nobody could be expected to withstand such treatment. How did the people churning out these articles think this would end?
I find this whole saga bleaker than anything Sophocles wrote, because nobody comes out of it with any credit at all. Not Arday himself, nor Cambridge University, nor the press, nor Nathan Cofnas, the white supremacist blogger who brought everything out into the open. The latter may have exposed academic misconduct, but his motivation was rooted in his racist views and undoubtedly malicious.
Of course academic misconduct is wrong, but it does not warrant a death sentence. And where was the media furore when a (white) History professor at Cambridge, William O’Reilly, was found to have plagiarised his own students essays? Professor O’Reilly, incidentally, remains in post. That’s just one example. I’m sure there are dozens more that we know nothing about, because they couldn’t be used to further racist ends. If standards are not applied equally then they can be used to reinforce prejudice, as they have in this case. It’s called hypocrisy.
The usual Culture Warmongers are using this case to further their agenda against the principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion which are supposed to be adopted in universities and other institutions. For myself, this tragedy demonstrates that EDI* principles are not satisfied by mere tokenism, a facile form of window-dressing that does nothing to change the culture within the organisation.
(*For any Americans reading this I use the UK/European EDI in preference to the DEI used in the States which reminds me too much of OPUS DEI.)
In a slightly different context, this is why I have become cynical about the “widening participation” efforts by many higher-education institutions to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds. These may succeed in bringing more such students into courses – and hence greater income to the university – but they are rarely backed up by the support needed to enable them to succeed. Many institutions do not even track the outcomes of these students, not because they can’t but because The Management doesn’t care: once they’re in through the door that’s “job done”.
I came from what some people would call a disadvantaged background, although I don’t think of it that way. That I have had a career in academia is a result of an enormous amount of luck, starting way back in primary school. I would dearly like to see a system in which luck wasn’t so important, but what is being done now is not the way to achieve that. If we’re going to do EDI – and we should – let’s do it properly.
UPDATE: 20/8/2026. Nathan Cofnas has been suspended by Gent University pending a disciplinary process.
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The Worldviews We Build With: Why Good Design Starts in the Spirit, by @equalentry.com:
https://equalentry.com/ethical-design-human-values/?ref=frontenddogma.com
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Moral of the story: Never let bullies intimidate you. Ever. #Politics #Democracy #Business #DEI #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #US #USpol https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/dei-policy-company-performance
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The truth can sting.
[All the people who voted for Lindsay's sister refused to vote for Kamala because she was inexperienced.]
The irony is lost on the low information voter.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #DEI #DHS #ICE #Senate #Congress #ironic #truth #voter #election #LindsayGraham #DarlineGraham #nepo #sister #diversity #equity #inclusion #conservatives #target the #most #vulnerable #among #us for #political #gain
