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Out of Africa way predates DEI. Are you saying this is a 1980s conspiracy?
by ripped_britches 2y ago
Out of Africa way predates DEI. Are you saying this is a 1980s conspiracy?
- zo1 2y ago[flagged]
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoDEI is a term used by a vague group of people to vilify certain media, or in this particular case, push an anti-science narrative claiming DEI is used in an anti-scientific fashion. It does not allow anyone that questions it to be called racist per se, but the questioning itself is just unsubstantiated and vague. This comment chain started with someone claiming contradictory evidence is not considered; where is this contradictory evidence? I mean sure, if there is an effective suppression campaign going on then said evidence would be gone, but surely there'd be whistleblowers and first hand accounts of scientific oppression and the like? If not, it's more effective than e.g. North Korea's regime in keeping information hidden, and like the moon landings, hundreds of thousands of people would be complicit. Which would be really interesting.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoDEI does exist at universities, but the idea that human evolutionary biologists let their research be directed by DEI concerns is ridiculous. The whole out-of-Africa vs. multiregional debate played out over many years between different research groups, and what ultimately settled it was DNA evidence that heavily favored the out-of-Africa hypothesis. With more data and more findings, it's become clear that modern humans do have some DNA from different populations outside Africa, but out of Africa is still basically correct.