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> being forced to profess beliefs you don't hold I don't understand what beliefs you're referring to? I thought they were asking people to promote diversity, w

• romwell 4y ago
  "Belief" that there's something wrong with the fact that you might spend your entire career in academia and never see a Black mathematics professor who was born and educated in the US. It's a very radical concept for many people, including Scott Adams.
  • AinderS 4y ago
    You should update your assumptions. This is the current composition of the Ivy League: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339041 You can take a guess how good your chances of passing the diversity filter are, if your main contribution is trying to reduce the discrimination against non-Jewish whites, by which they are 12-times less likely to be admitted to the Ivy League than their Jewish counterparts.
  • namdnay 4y ago
    that's just basic human decency, no? are we now to respect someone who believes it's completely normal not to see any black professors in a country that's 15% balck?
    • romwell 4y ago
      Yes, it's decent human decency. And yet, most commentors here would want you to respect such a person. Welcome to HN.