Yes. Trying to end discrimination means that nobody is penalised for their skin colour /gender etc. That's different from actively
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pushing for more people from 'diverse' bgs through incentives. (Whatever diversity means to you, and it could mean many things.)
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Problem with the latter is people can feel resentment that someone has been hired / given an incentive just to make things more 'diverse'.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @kpanyc
Then we talk to those folks about history, sociology, psychology, etc. We de-personalize but still account for structural inequalities.
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Replying to @joshua_r_eyler @kpanyc
Yeah, but a lot of this stuff is unscientific crap put about by activist scholars. Doesn't really hold up. (Sorry to be blunt.)
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Replying to @christianjbdev @kpanyc
Also, this is pretty disparaging to whole fields and whole groups of people. Are you suggesting that one cannot be both activist & scholar?
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One can but its essential to make every effort to keep ideology out of scholarship & that isn't happening in certain fields right now.
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Since we're using anec-data in this debate, I'll just say that I disagree. I also think it's unreasonable to make such blanket claims.
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Do you disagree that ideology should be kept out of scholarship or that there has been a significant failure to do this?
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I disagree that there has been a universal failure to do so.
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Well, no. I try very hard to do so. But I do get penalised for this.
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