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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm James Lindsay and you are listening to the new Discourses podcast. |
0:25.5 | I've been meaning for a while to go through kind of one of these diversity statements put |
0:30.8 | out by an entity kind of like I have, you know, I've read through these other documents |
0:36.8 | like repressive tolerance and mapping the margins. |
0:39.4 | I still have some others that I want to do, but I've been meaning to kind of go through |
0:42.5 | one of these apparently boilerplate diversity documents that is being put out by a corporation |
0:50.3 | or university or something kind of decoded. |
0:53.6 | So I realize that, you know, while I'm doing this one, I probably won't do lots and lots |
0:57.5 | of these. |
0:58.5 | I may do some more in the future. |
1:00.1 | This could be used as a kind of template to understand what you're seeing when some |
1:05.1 | institution or organization or company or church or whatever happens to put one of these |
1:10.6 | kind of impenetrable stupid documents about diversity, equity and inclusion or something |
1:16.8 | like that out of the world. |
1:19.2 | You can use this kind of as a road map then this one, which is a strategic plan for faculty, |
1:25.9 | diversity, equity and inclusivity from the University of Texas at Austin, Office of the |
1:31.3 | Executive Vice President and Provost, somebody sent to me, I get three or four examples of |
1:37.2 | these a day. |
1:38.2 | I got a couple more today as a matter of fact, not just this one, and I read through part |
1:46.3 | of this one. |
1:47.3 | And I thought it might be helpful to kind of break down the assumptions, try to translate |
1:50.8 | it into plain English. |
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