- A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
Apr 23, 2025 00:23
- And I’ll just say, I am grateful for a partner who pulled me back in some places, but few pieces get me out of bed to write immediately. Berk’s piece did that. And whatever shade is evident in the piece of mine you read here, know there was more.
- Merit, you say? Okay, given this public display of absolutely fatuous opinion masquerading as fact, and your deep commitment to rooting out ideology for academic rigor, you won’t mind if we start an investigation into your tenure file? Or is that only for the Black Women you attack?
- (Hakeem you are the pass-through vector of this message, not its target!)
- Hah. Oh, I understood that!
- "But the argument descends further. Berk asserts — without irony — that in contrast to today, “After WWII and the GI Bill, private universities like Stanford became places that provided opportunities to bright young minds from all strata in society.” this is wild! I'm glad you responded
- That’s the part that got me out of bed at 630 am to start writing!
