OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 135
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What we now call Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training in virtually any format, including “cultural competence” and “unconscious bias” trainings, derive from an earlier program more simply known as “Sensitivity Training.” Well, in 1974, the CIA published an internal memo about whether or not Sensitivity Training (or “Encounter Group” training) is appropriate for the agency, and they determined that it is not. The reasons are really something too: it creates groupthink, destroys independent thought, may not produce real (only false or apparent) results, and appears to be similar to thought-reform and brainwashing programs in Mao Zedong’s Communist China! Join me in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, to hear all about it.
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3 comments
The more I think about it, the more I view DEI and such things as the extreme form of “toxic femininity”.
Lying, manipulating, working as a group to ostracize others, painting others to be the bad guy when it’s really the opposite, guilt-tripping, etc., etc., etc.
Perhaps it’s no wonder this stuff comes from and/or blossoms at universities where several “social studies” might attract and sustain a disproportionate amount of women and certain types of men (e.g. look up “sneaker males” in fish, or characteristics of psychopathy).
Just call it Cultural Marxism or communism.