Mandated diversity statement drives Jonathan Haidt to quit academic society
He’s right to do so. Statements that your research must be presented with a filter based on how it will advance political goals calls into question the integrity of all research. When people don’t “trust the science” this will be why.<p>But further, I’d never seen the statement from antiracist before…wow. The idea that the only cure for discrimination is discrimination is akin to saying the only cure for violence is violence. It’s abject insanity that such a notion is being advanced in society.<p>The cure for discrimination is forgiveness. The cure for violence is forgiveness. The cure for hatred is forgiveness.<p>The only way anything stops is for people to have the humility and wisdom to say “this will stop with me.”