| I mean...sucks bro. I can imagine that in much of science, where DEI and the wokeness is unrelated to the things you actually study, it was just lip service. And you were sometimes forced to hire idiots, I guess. But when you study human behavior, it's not just lip service - the DEI edicts, speech controls, etc. are about the things you study. "90% of the systematic differences in behavior between men and women are driven by biology" "~70-80% of the variance in intelligence is heritable" "Your personality is mostly defined by your genes" "Small-scale societies before modernity were hierarchical and extremely violent, which is why they were successful" "There are no matriarchal societies at all, past or present" "Slavery was a human universal until recently. Its end was when a bunch of Westerners were like "Maybe that's wrong and we should stop" - and they forced everyone else" You know what's also cutting off your nose to spite your face? Getting rid of math classes in public high schools because brown kids do poorly in them. All people are born a blank slate, amirite? So it must be ~~systemic racism~~. And bullshit "research" that was designed (and advertised) to come to that conclusion got funded everywhere. The government was entirely captured by this complete nonsense. And it did a huge amount of damage, not least of which is the reaction to it we are now experiencing. I can imagine how it just seems like a stupid social game in physics, but if you study humans it's really the meat of the thing. |