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If the women and girls choose to wear it ...

Has been for decades

Before we start, to keep things straight, here is a handy guide to DEI buzzwords that I have compiled: Allyship — complying without complaining Doing the work — agreeing faster Holding space — sitting quietly while being scolded Lived experience — an unlikely and unverifiable personal anecdote, but load-bearing Other ways of knowing — confidently not knowing Calling in (vs. calling out) — calling someone out while smiling Safe space — a separated space excluding you (who are the danger) Centering marginalized voices — the meeting has a new chairman Unpacking — what academics do instead of getting back to work Problematize — to discover a problem though none was reported Equity lens — special glasses that can find racial disparities in a takeout menu Positionality statement — virtue-signaling before the land acknowledgment Land acknowledgment — admitting the theft while keeping the land Cultural humility — humility, but billed hourly at confiscatory rates Restorative practices — like detention, but more boring and with a confession circle As its cachet has boiled off —slowly at first, and then all at once— DEI tried to change its outfit, a sort of political looksmaxxing, by adding letters. DEI tested DEIB (belonging), and some institutions even went with JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, inclusion), until objections were raised that the term was problematic because Jedi —i.e., made-up sci-fi characters— are “inappropriately religious,” and anyway, too many Star Wars characters are white. That objection appeared in Scientific American. It even complained about phallic lightsabers. You can’t make this stuff up.

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Before we start, to keep things straight, here is a handy guide to DEI buzzwords that I have compiled: Allyship — complying without complaining Doing the work — agreeing faster Holding space — sitting quietly while being scolded Lived experience — an unlikely and unverifiable personal anecdote, but load-bearing Other ways of knowing — confidently not knowing Calling in (vs. calling out) — calling someone out while smiling Safe space — a separated space excluding you (who are the danger) Centering marginalized voices — the meeting has a new chairman Unpacking — what academics do instead of getting back to work Problematize — to discover a problem though none was reported Equity lens — special glasses that can find racial disparities in a takeout menu Positionality statement — virtue-signaling before the land acknowledgment Land acknowledgment — admitting the theft while keeping the land Cultural humility — humility, but billed hourly at confiscatory rates Restorative practices — like detention, but more boring and with a confession circle As its cachet has boiled off —slowly at first, and then all at once— DEI tried to change its outfit, a sort of political looksmaxxing, by adding letters. DEI tested DEIB (belonging), and some institutions even went with JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, inclusion), until objections were raised that the term was problematic because Jedi —i.e., made-up sci-fi characters— are “inappropriately religious,” and anyway, too many Star Wars characters are white. That objection appeared in Scientific American. It even complained about phallic lightsabers. You can’t make this stuff up.