Colin Wright: How Misguided "Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion" Harms Science

[@kimj5037]

"They're not about inclusion, but rather the exclusion of people with differing opinions. We need diversity of thought to get the best ideas to fight racism and bigotry..." Perfectly said! Thank you FAIR for everything you are doing.

[@duncanweller1]

I dropped out of my Masters program in English literature not because of a situation regarding D.E.I. statements, but because the department was allowing for several professors to attempt to indoctrinate students into a communist or Marxist ideology, hidden behind the title of "radical imagination." Another issue the incredible number of useless essays we were required to read which pushed "postmodernism" with a nihilistic agenda, seemingly out to destroy individual thought regarding literature. I felt physically sick by all the nonsense and will be making a very public protest against the department and the university for allowing this kind of situation to develop. It's a situation that causes students to avoid the Humanities. And for people like myself to miss out on opportunities to earn a living by sharing what I've learned as an award winning writer and illustrator. Apparently ideology rules over experience, knowledge, art and individuality.

[@kevst5047]

Duncan, txs for sharing and truly sorry for what happened. It takes courage from people like u to change the system - & i hope u find happiness in ur next endeavor.

[@davidegentile2324]

I believe in this organization.

[@shubhamvyas3192]

Wow, Colin Wright is one of my favorites. I believe that this organization has a great future. Hopefully we will be able to hear diverse viewpoints and a humanistic compassionate humble discourse. I can't donate, but I can share this to people, that is what I can do at best. I hope to see this channel and organization get big in future

[@susanbarrotvaldes]

Colin, thank you for sharing your experience and warning us what DEI is really about. I had not heard of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion till 2020. I heard the words diversity and inclusion so I assumed it must be a good thing. I didn’t understand equity cause I kept thinking it’s different than equality. I now know how DEI is the opposite of equality. I admire your good character for not going along.

[@mrsfoss3368]

What a brilliant video... brought me to tears at the end... I'm so tired of division... can't we just get on with life! Whoever you want to be, or whoever you are is YOUR journey... no one else has to know your private stuff and if your share it, it's not for us to judge... we should all be loved and accepted but we do not have to agree or take on other's ideas of what things SHOULD BE... fairness for ALL... isn't this what we have been fighting for for years?

[@Muonium1]

I have such a crush on Colin. Intelligent, skeptical, BASED, willing to stand up for what's right even when it costs him, handsome, and besides all that....those arms, bro 🥰🥰

[@SwipeWright]

❤️

[@Mbwcahill]

Thanks for this level-headed and concise discussions of “DEI in Science” Colin. Keep up the good work. We have decades of distorted and embedded destructive ideology to overcome. Each of us must do our part to oppose this nonsense. We must spread the word on the destructiveness of DEI in Science and in all other aspects of life, and provide a different vision of how to live with fairness and dignity.

[@ProkofNY]

Dear FAIR, I love your animated videos on the topics of racism, slavery and progress; your balanced and fair-minded approach to such topics is exactly what we need to counteract those divisive narratives that can be very confusing to young children. It would be fantastic to have similar videos on topics related to gender/sexuality; these topics as they are currently taught in many schools, can be equally confusing.

[@JustPassingThrough-999]

FAIR gives me hope that there are still some people left who are brave enough to speak out against bigotry and hatred so heavily forced upon us by American institutions and leftist media.

[@geoffmarcy677]

Thank you for this brilliant summary of forced race-based and gender-based policies in universities. Ironically, it is thoughtful, empathic professors who are being turned away from jobs as teachers. If you show a student you care, you can easily be accused of misbehavior by the DEI enforcement office. Meanwhile, the admission of students is now determined, in part, by a child's skin color or gender identity. Even the SAT entrance exam for students is being eliminated. I am worried about Western Civilization .

[@mca4093]

Very good message.

[@andylunt2]

Great video Colin!

[@exlesoes]

This man is everywhere. He has spoken on topics of biology and this. Also he is speaking on equity diversity and inclusion and ALSO psychology

[@bradstokes7061]

Great thoughts thank you

[@tomcotter4299]

There is no barrier to entry to starting a DEI consulting firm. The people who run them now are literally just a bunch of know-nothing ideologues. Success in the field is purely up to your ability to market and sell yourself. We should all start DEI consulting companies and flood the market with companies run by sane people who share our views. We can block DEI from spreading by simply sucking up all the dollars that companies spend on it for ourselves, they'll never know the difference.

[@cre8iveone699]

I would hate to discriminated for my skin color, gender, orentation or anything else superficial. I want to be accepted and respected for my hard work, accomplishments, skills and character as a person.

[@valerief8824]

Excellent video! Your point is also made by evolutionary biologists whom you're surely aware of, Bret Weinstein and Dr. Heather Heying of Dark Horse podcasts. Keep up the good work--we need people speaking up for true equality for everyone!

[@ronzacharias5497]

great video, loved seeing colin!

[@TexHorn210]

I’m very interested to hear more about academics with tenure who are worried about being fired. Because that sounds like a falsehood.

[@davidhowe6905]

I think Bret Weinstein was fired.

[@tonyradcliff1021]

Right on my friend.

[@adrianarchie]

There is no such a thing as a nondisguided DEI Training

[@aranisles8292]

Good stuff,but let's jettison the word 'equity' altogether. It is not a synonym for equality.

[@boredvet]

Of course California

[@TheZipeedoo]

At 3:08 in a 4:46 video, after talking about yourself for the entire time, you say: "But this video isn't really about me." Lol. But really, this video is just a bunch of platitudes and canned corn. "I only hire the best." DEI isn't about promoting people based on something other than merit. It's about creating opportunities for people who, due to accident of birth, have fewer opportunities to demonstrate their merit. One often hears a phrase like "the NBA doesn't practice affirmative action". The totality of all NBA players is essentially zero percent of the human population, so it's not a good sample, but the interesting thing about this sort of statement is how it misses the point. In most pro sports, a disproportionately large percentage of athletes are born in the first calendar quarter of the fiscal year of the youth version of their sport. This is because, at young ages, that earlier birth manifests as larger size, strength, speed, etc. Those athletes excel. As a result, they get more playing minutes and coaching time. Lots of data by now demonstrating that those psychological advantages carry through to older years, even where birth order no longer confers any material physical advantage. The path to a professional athletic career has many other variables as well. Injuries, for example -- and access to quality medical care, which is often a function of socio-economic status of a young athlete's parents. Family or life factors that require an athlete to leave a sport in order to earn money to support a family, etc. In these ways, and many more, the path from birth to a berth on a pro NBA team is heavily impacted by accidents of birth and parentage. The NBA is not a distillation of the best players. Rather, it's a distillation of the best players out of the sub-group of players born with the advantages that foster a lifelong path of basketball training and development. That modifier is what DEI is about. Our nation has a history of systematically denying opportunity to citizens based solely on physiognomy. Thought we have as a nation made great strides in the direction of equality of opportunity, it is still the case today that deeply entrenched, multi-generational poverty and its associated malaise resides disproportionately within certain minority communities, meaning that, structurally, children from those communities enjoy diminished opportunity. Nobody is suggesting that NASA hire an engineer who is bad at math just because he's black. Rockets crash when the math is wrong. Rather, the concept is to give others, at younger ages, an opportunity to prove that they can excel at math. As to the world of academic science, that whole world has become so corrupted by politicization of science via the grant process that it is somewhat of a snort to suggest it is a meritocracy at all. Science has been politicized in the US since the days of so-called "Eugenics". Ancel Keys vs. John Yudkin -- Yudkin was the better scientist, but Keys got the money and adulation, essentially single-handedly launching the US along its path of endemic obesity and so-called Type II diabetes. Just one of dozens of examples.

[@aaaaaauyt]

skin pigments and sex organ - that is what DEI is about

[@willard39]

Ew. Why would you ask your mentees their aexual orientation. That sounds gross and an invasion of their privacy. Same with race, to a lesser extent, but what if you don't once for sure? Do you ask them "what's your race?" In the end, all of those answers will just be formalities that applicants fake to get the position, except in rare cases where they too drink that kool-aid. The bigger question is, do these institutions want people who are passionate and knowledgeable about their subjects? Or just someone who can answer the DEI facade questions properly?

[@howardhutton6806]

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