Diversity: Coming face-to-face with it in Academia

While you were sleeping....

I recently concluded a weeks-long initiative with my old college Alma mater (I graduated in the late 20th Century). I'm still in deep shock about how DEI has infested the entire administrative system there and how the concept of excellence has all but vanished. If you think I'm exaggerating, bookmark this thread and compare notes after your next Alumni interaction.

How you are immediately devalued and muted is impressive. It’s like I’m still in a mild state of shock… It’s one thing hearing it from others… hoping they’re over-dramatizing… but seeing it first-hand is a real eye-opener… And if you think you can just call back and find someone else with a rational approach - I have news for you... And if you think it's limited to public colleges, think again.

I'm naturally skeptical of stuff I read nowadays, but I assure you, the following is a spot-on description of what I experienced:
• "When everything is potentially offensive, all communication must be as indirect as possible, and the result is that clear communication using direct and precise language becomes impossible."
• "Academic discourse, characterized by impenetrable jargon at the best of times, has become a submarine mine field of accepted nomenclatures continuously evolving into deeply offensive expressions of various isms and phobias under the savage selective pressure of the rabid status games played by academics desperately scrambling after the small and shrinking number of jobs. Self-censorship, as everyone knows, has become pervasive - in an environment where yesterday's mandatory vocabulary is today's cancellable hate speech, the only safe expression is to say nothing."
• “The rot is everywhere, touching everything, a miasma of mandatory make-believe that has choked off the oxygen of rational inquiry.”
• “Naturally the narrative is always false; it is precisely because it is false that it forbids even the discussion of alternatives, a taboo that expresses itself in the deplatforming or cancellation of deviants who dare "deny" the sacred narrative, or even to raise the most timid of questions about some minor aspect of it.”

The gypsies are in the palace...

The DIEing Academy