[tostonescon]

The goal is to cure cancer. In the meantime, those efforts shouldn't be limited to people who (largely) fit the existing power structures and historical privilege.

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

The fact is our institutions of science and education have not been and are not pure meritocracies (and if they were, they are meritocracies in a society that gives more tools to achieve merit to specific groups of people)

The status quo is not truly based on merit, and is not the most efficient cause because it systemically excludes massive amounts of people.

This op ed implies that someone who doesn't believe in racial injustice is more meritous and worth considering and making space for rather than the Black woman who wasn't hired because of her [hair/vernacular/skin color/gender/couldn't get an internship or lab placement because of those same factors]