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Your response reveals the way you're thinking about this. i.e. If I accept and employ a conservative person then I'm aligning with conservative values and betr
by ap99 1y ago
Your response reveals the way you're thinking about this.
i.e. If I accept and employ a conservative person then I'm aligning with conservative values and betraying liberal values.
What the GP is proposing is abandoning this black and white thinking, or in other words: accepting diversity of thought.
(Waiting for downvotes from the HN echo chamber that abhors diversity of thought.)
- saubeidl 1y agoThat is straight up not what's happening though and the "diversity of thought" framing is a way conservatives like to gaslight people into accepting their censorship. Climate change research is being threatened. Universities are being bullied for supporting trans athletes. There's a reason these folks are fleeing. It's not because they can't stand to have colleagues with opposing views, it's because they are threatened. To reframe it as "diversity of thought" is disingenuous and dishonest.
- ap99 1y agoYou're implying there was an abundance of diversity of thought before 2024 or 2016. Was there? Academia has been this way for decades.
- saubeidl 1y agoSo which is it now? Is it newly found diversity of thought or has it always been this way? I don't remember the last time the president bullied universities the way this one is doing, fwiw.
- kentm 1y agoI would argue there was. You’re using “Accepts conservative thoughts uncritically” as the barometer here. Conservative thought just tends to lose out when examined critically, so the right seeks to compensate by authoritarian measures. See heavy handed, top down efforts to suppress climate science, gender and trans science, research into effects of diversity, etc.
- jklinger410 1y ago> Climate change research is being threatened. Universities are being bullied for supporting trans athletes. These two things are not equivalent.
- saubeidl 1y agoWhy not? Both are "diversity of thought", aren't they?
- sophacles 1y agoIt's only diversity of thought if it's lockstep with thier thoughts. You know... diversity - rigid sameness.
- saubeidl 1y agoThat is exactly what I called out in my post above. "Diversity of thought" is just a mask conservatives use for "our groupthink", in my experience. Same as "freedom of speech" or "states rights". Always only when it's convenient for them.
- kentm 1y agoThey are. Transgenderism has decades of research backing it and the right has just unilaterally decided that it’s wrong. They didn’t do this based on any sort of real research but rather empty appeals to nature and essentialism. Sports bans were not put in place because of a prevalence of trans athletes beating cis athletes.
- 762236 1y agoGender affirming care is unsupported by evidence, so it is inaccurate to say "unilaterally". Trans woman tend to dominate their sports. There are so many examples of this. We don't need to have opinions on this: just use the evidence.
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