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I support the purported intent of this policy, not the misuse of it. But that's something that has to be challenged when it happens, and it hasn't happened yet. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make any policy since it could always potentially be misused. For the record I expect there will be some misuse of it, but broadly I also expect it to curtail the fake woke "science" that was itself a kind of misuse of the system.





...can you point to some of this 'fake "woke" science'?

Here's a study that looked at precisely the kind of thing this policy will address: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/increasing-politicization-and-h...

To be clear, I would be in support of this policy even if there was no evidence because it sets a tone that I think is positive.


The tone it sets is that "we don't care about studying anything relating to minorities or people who weren't born with a silver spoon" which I wouldn't call a positive tone.

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The list very clearly spells it out and it will go that far if it hasn't already.

"wokesters" ah, that must be the IT standards organization that banned the use of the words "master" and "slave."

But is the "woke science" incorrect? It is possible that it is both accurate and something you dislike?



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