"A problem I've been very concerned about since 2015 is that as American society has been getting more polarized - actually this began in the late 90s - as left and right have begun to hate each other more, institutions are getting pulled, either to the right or the left, and then they get purified."
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" - John Stuart Mill
"It's taboo to question whether or not diversity policies work."
"The easy way to tell which side is wrong and the answer is - it's the side that shoots its dissidents."
"We've developed a culture survey that looks at a number of different outcomes for ethical culture one of the most important is procedural fairness."
"Even though equity used to mean proportionality, now equity means equality of outcome, and the only way to get equality of outcome is to violate procedural fairness."
Is the problem in the corporate world slightly easier to address than in higher education, due to profit motive and a desire to do what works?
"I think there are reasons to think that the corporate world has certain advantages here and certain disadvantages. So Alana put a finger on the biggest one which is that they actually care about what works. They want things to work. They don't want to waste money so in the long run. They're very motivated to stop doing this. The other advantage they have is that the corporate world generally has a lot more viewpoint diversity, so there are certain industries such as journalism and media where almost everybody's on the left and then you can get orthodoxies as we have in the in higher ed, but for the most part in the corporate world you know, if there's ten people in there, you can't assume that they're all ardently progressive politically. So viewpoint diversity is a big benefit here. On the other hand, the corporate world is much more concerned about lawsuits than we are in higher ed. People are really walking on eggshells and doing anything to avoid triggering a lawsuit from an employee or some sort of class action suit. And they're also much more vulnerable to bad publicity. So in a sense any anyone who has an objection, anyone who gets angry, can wreak a lot of damage via Twitter or Glassdoor. Especially, Twitter and other platforms, so in general, I'd say it's a wash."
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