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by tzs 1175 days ago
Okun says people are using that work wrong. Here’s a recent interview about that: https://theintercept.com/2023/02/03/deconstructed-tema-okun-...
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Right, and for whatever it's worth, most sane DEI-type people have disavowed the interpretation used by slides like the one in this story. Everybody involved in this story looks bad. There's a sort of fascinating sociological phenomenon here where stories like this have so much valence for so many ideologies, confirm so many different priors, that people glom onto them without realizing the side they're taking in it is also terrible.