Bill Ackman's New Pet Project Is a School That Embraces AI and Rejects Dei
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Also how do they reject inclusion? Do they teachers tell the kids “you don’t belong here” as they pass them in the hallways?
For equity they must make the tests harder for some kids than for others. Intentionally hand out different grades for the same results.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gentleman%27s_C
To me, "rejecting DEI" is a dog whistle for attracting firebrand supporters of discriminative racial and social practices, ranging from racism to sexism and whatever they can think of in between.
Primary and secondary school, church, family, these are ready-made, we're ushered into. Thinking broke religion for me.
But cognitive biases and hangups (socially transmitted mental illness) are part of the environment. Took me a lot to break out of the ones I could see. People who lack an ability to see the perspective of another person (common for Asperger's) can revel in arbitrary rule systems and privileges. Can. Not destiny, but not beneficial for the total society.
The "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
> Primary and secondary school, church, family, these are ready-made, we're ushered into.
Yup, and for neurotypicals, belief is a function of loyalty. They believe (unconsciously) in order to demonstrate their allegiance to their clan (which is why you can't argue them out of a belief). The entire social fabric (and all institutions therein) is designed to reinforce your clan's code by telling you what to believe.
Autistics don't work that way. When we believe, we actually do believe. So we need a different approach: pretending to believe in order to preserve our social standing (and thus, safety - because people only help you if they like you, and that usually requires congruent "beliefs").