When you’re an early-career scientist working postdoctoral contracts, [DIE dogma] isn’t theoretical – it gets shoved in your face, every day. It was particularly disheartening when I was trying to find a job at the next career stage up, as a tenure-track professor, and being told I had to compromise my integrity and compose a diversity statement first ... with the knowledge that in all likelihood I’d be nevertheless be passed over in favour of the diversity to which I had written the humiliating paean. For the record, I simply refused to do this. That limited my options to the few institutions that didn’t demand obeisance.
I constantly challenge all those (moderate Leftists) who would still rather focus on the Republican party or the ‘far-right’ while remaining silent about the excesses of totalitarian Leftism: is this right? Should someone have to lie and misrepresent their values to be a scientist? Should only people who believe some very specific, fringe (anti-scientific) things about racism and merit and sexism be allowed to be scientists? If your answer is ‘no’ to both of these then you should be against these policies.
The problem is not that people don’t disagree with these rules. The problem is that most people are ambivalent, or cowards. The ambivalent are losing the opportunity to really change their society for the better and the cowardly know exactly who they are and resent the brave every day for being better people than they are.
