> These are non-sequiturs. The research question here is whether faculty are hired from those prestigious schools above and beyond the rate at which they would

> These are non-sequiturs. The research question here is whether faculty are hired from those prestigious schools above and beyond the rate at which they would have been hired based on other signals of their potential as researchers, which, presumably, are related to what school they go to. > I am not seeing how schools' historical relationships with marginalized peoples bears on that question. You're right, but it would be truly hilarious if those universities used this same reasoning to defend themselves. Now they don't like the intersectionality they preach when it's going to be used against them.