I think the thesis of the poster is roughly: The left latched into the concept of “diversity” to make the right hate it, thus becoming more homogeneous and dumber. Seems plausible, yet a bit too clever to be likely.
I don’t believe that the type of thing the left means by diversity makes institutions smarter. I also don’t believe that the right has generalized it’s anti-diversity stance to include all forms of variety which may actually be useful.
imagine you’re playing a game where some rules encoded in words are so special that no one is allowed to touch or change them. these special rules have special properties, so no one questions them. the devil, in this case, is like a sneaky player who hides behind those rules, using them to confuse everyone else. they create a trap by making things so complicated that people can’t figure out what’s really going on. this makes it harder to escape or solve the problem, because the rules are off limits.
The particular words the posting seems to be about are DEI and woke stuff. But Trump is taking a wrecking ball to them, and got elected on a platform to do just that.
I don’t see what the requisite variety stuff has to do with it either. (I think requisite variety is a crock, but that would be another conversation.) When Indiana Jones is confronted with a sword-fighter who demonstrates all manner of dazzlingly fast swordplay, he just draws a gun and shoots him. What matter the “variety” of the swordsman’s skills then?
I don’t think I understood this.
I think the thesis of the poster is roughly: The left latched into the concept of “diversity” to make the right hate it, thus becoming more homogeneous and dumber. Seems plausible, yet a bit too clever to be likely.
I don’t believe that the type of thing the left means by diversity makes institutions smarter.
I also don’t believe that the right has generalized it’s anti-diversity stance to include all forms of variety which may actually be useful.
imagine you’re playing a game where some rules encoded in words are so special that no one is allowed to touch or change them. these special rules have special properties, so no one questions them. the devil, in this case, is like a sneaky player who hides behind those rules, using them to confuse everyone else. they create a trap by making things so complicated that people can’t figure out what’s really going on. this makes it harder to escape or solve the problem, because the rules are off limits.
I still don’t think I understand this.
The particular words the posting seems to be about are DEI and woke stuff. But Trump is taking a wrecking ball to them, and got elected on a platform to do just that.
I don’t see what the requisite variety stuff has to do with it either. (I think requisite variety is a crock, but that would be another conversation.) When Indiana Jones is confronted with a sword-fighter who demonstrates all manner of dazzlingly fast swordplay, he just draws a gun and shoots him. What matter the “variety” of the swordsman’s skills then?