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> somehow the "intellectual elite" cannot wrap their heads around a very simple negotiating tactic

This is extremely disingenous. Throughout this thread you've been arguing on the basis that hiring people simply to fit a political viewoint is wrong, but when it's pointed out that that's exactly what your team wants as well you fall back to name-calling.




What they want is to hire people based on merit, first and foremost. They say that explicitly several times.


That's not the only demand in the letter.




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