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  1. “In order to present research at the conference, all social psychologists are now required to submit a statement explaining ‘whether and how this submission advances the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP.’”

    How about a statement like this one:

    “This submission does nothing to advance the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP. But note that it also does nothing to retard or obstruct the equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals of SPSP. The submission is what it is, and hearers are free to glean from it whatever they may find useful and/or enlightening.”

  2. I got out just in time to avoid having to sign such statement for all the classes I would teach. DEI must be part of senior level QM and all other science courses. Syllabi are now required to be submitted to a central committee for approval.

    There may be a few schools not totally given in to the madness, but not many.

  3. Meanwhile, the medical professional societies (the AMA, the AAP, and the Children’s Hospital Association) are asking Merrick Garland “to censor, deplatform, investigate, and prosecute journalists who question the orthodoxy of radical gender surgeries for minors, arguing that public criticism is ‘disinformation’.”

    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1577029634042253313

    So it isn’t just the academics; it’s the clinical practitioners as well.

  4. So it isn’t just the academics; it’s the clinical practitioners as well.

    How many of the institutional politicians sitting on AMA committees are in something resembling clinical practice? If they actually were, would they have time for anything in excess of one conference per year?

    Note, the American Academy of Pediatrics has been corrupted by politics for 20 years at any rate.

  5. Every white academic who pushes DIE should be pressured to resign to make room for “people of color” to get their job. Every white person who gets paid to advance “ social justice” should be pressured to resign to make room for paying more “ people of color.” Make them live up to what they are trying to force on everybody else.

  6. Haidt is a failure. Liberals hate conservatives, thinking they are “violent”. And conservatives are tired of the persecution by the banks, corporations, government and the leftist thugs.

  7. So it seems that universities have become religious institutions again. Having to adhere to the current dogma, teaching “truth “ instead objective, fact based truth. Having studied history in college and most of my life this is almost funny if it wasn’t so sad.

  8. I liked Haidt’s book _The Righteous Mind_, and wish that his Heterodox Academy project had found more success. However, what we have here is not a failure to communicate. The SPSP will not be shamed by Haidt’s resignation. Indeed I would argue that his resignation is the desired outcome. The left has been consciously driving conservatives and moderates out of the academy since at least the late 1980s. Post-modernist unintelligibility and “Bad Writing” to weed out all but the most conformist, along with the first rollouts of sexual harassment (for example as dramatized in Mamet’s Oleanna_ ) were but early tactics. They can be more explicitly political now.

  9. }}} Or rather, the truth they now seek is a “greater” truth, a sort of lefist “my truth” rather than the truth as best it can be ascertained.

    I suggest, Neo, that the word you are after is Steven Colbert’s “Truthiness”

    I would define it as: Something that may not be true in the least, but “ought to be”.

    ;-P

    Everyone can grasp the desire for such things to turn out true… some of us are intellectually honest enough to grasp that many times, they are not.

    “What We Want” does not equal “What Actually Is”

  10. }}} So it seems that universities have become religious institutions again. Having to adhere to the current dogma, teaching “truth “ instead objective, fact based truth. Having studied history in college and most of my life this is almost funny if it wasn’t so sad.

    Indeed. I suspect the only option is to begin creating our own institutions, which have a focus on the Truth.

    It’s funny, but it occurs to me that we are looking at the flip side of the schism that Robert Persig’s alter ego, “Phaedrus” spoke of in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, when the break between Art and Philosophy occurred — the ones fighting for Truth won out, with tremendous long-term effects on humanity — without that devotion to Truth, the Enlightenment would never have happened, and we would still live in a pre-technology hellhole around the world.

    And to some of The Truth’s detractors, that would be a Real Good Thing.

    The fact that Getting from Here to There would cost about 7 billion lives and leave the rest in squalor and misery is not a problem for them.

    I repeat once more:
    PostModern Liberalism is a Social Cancer. Literally, not Figuratively.

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