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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is an dei grad?  You lost me.  Why do people continue to use worda-that-are-not-du-jour.  DEI is over. That acronym is only ten years old.   Instead, “say equal opportunity”  “a hand up” -and “social safety nets.”

That was safe in the 90s and 2000s. Everyone “got” that. Time to stop fussing around with words and language. Word play lost this last election. [/quote]

DP.  Sorry you’re lost. Let’s move beyond acronyms to actual words.  Yale — including Yale Law School — has actively valued a modicum of diversity of many kinds at least as far back as Kingman Brewster’s presidency.  Diversity means a lot of things — from admitting women to Yale College in the late 1960’s, to mentioning how many states and countries are represented in their student body, to noting that someone from an underrepresented state with military expertise and a possibly compelling backstory might add something to their class.  It’s not really about equal opportunity, or social safety nets. It’s about adding something to the class that otherwise would be minimally represented— if at all.

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OK, cool. Most people know how higher ed institutions selects students. We have seen it evolve with the Supreme Court. Got it.

My point, which I failed to make, is that DEI is now toxic. Think of it as the word “promiscuous.” We know that phenomenon exists.  We deliberately choose not to use that word for various reasons. No one has called me that in years! (joke).

Anyhow, the faster we retire those letters the faster we move on.

I honestly believe most people want the same things. During my childhood, my black friend, every year,
would recite the MLK Dream speech at a school assembly. It was so powerful.  Let’s get back to that!

We are a modest and quiet people. Some of these forces changes lost the election.

—that my point.[/quote]

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