My thoughts on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

@CountScrofula I see. What I don't see is how I wouldn't know what a handicapped parking space is, when I'm a certified and experienced (to the highest of levels) special needs educator.

@CountScrofula so...is he like MarkPaul in outright fascist flavour?

@Therealsteve too many words ...i don't care ...I don't need you to over explain to me ...I know what DEI is

@catastrophecarnival My response wasn't about what DEI is.

@Therealsteve ok

@basilfawlty89 We have a massive variation of life that exists on this one Earth. All life didn't just take one homogenous form. It evolved into many different forms. However, there were pockets of homogenous orders of genes that give rise to what we know as species. And within those species, there are minor variations called subspecies which evolved from the mother species, similar to that species which act as a genetic backbone, however there is enough homogeneity in those forms - all forms - that we can recognise different animals. We all mix on one planet, there isn't a vacuum, yet genetic code has homogenized itself into collectives, and we can map them all on the phylogenetic tree. If this didn't happen, there wouldn't be evolution. We wouldn't be able to map any life we see on Earth. You can similarly create a historic tree of the evolution of language. Again that would require language to form into distinct homogenous collectives with identifiable alphabets, grammar etc in order for their to be identifiable languages to map.

@basilfawlty89 Obvi, the OP has nothing to do with DEI. But sure, let's run with the language analogy. An anti-DEI language would essentially be a language that refuses to grow, refuses to evolve in order to understand the everchanging world, and eventually dies.

@Therealsteve

> Imagine if we applied DEI to language for example
> "Why are you using language as an example?!" 😠

You on thís post, summed up.

@SkeetSkeet Scientific principles can be applied across many different domains. For example, the precepts of natural selection apply to both ideas and language, it is where we get the term "meme" from. It was coined by the biologist Prof Richard Dawkins who noted that ideas go through natural selection, defining a meme as "a unit of cultural inheritance" similar to a gene.

It is why we get different forms of psychologists - educational, child, clinical etc, different forms of biologist - molecular, genetic etc. Science seeks to find patterns, and these patterns are based on an observable order, A phylogenetic model of understanding. Which makes sense, as we all observe the same, objective reality. Hawking's "Universal Theory" was based on this. And everything is going to have overlap with everything else. Just look at the field psychology, of which I work in. All the regulatory disorders have co-morbid traits and difficulties, it's why they are put into "clusters". Meaning they share similarities, despite being different. It's why we have the term "comparative" in science, "comparative psychology, "comparative biology" etc. It's why we have the terms "similes", "metaphors" (I'm also a certified languages teacher). When you get to level of education of any sort of substantial level, making these kind of comparisons is just taken for granted. My college and university courses require it, as does my work.

@Therealsteve Scientific principles can be applied across many different domains. For example, the precepts of natural selection apply to both ideas and language, it is where we get the term "meme" from. It was coined by the biologist Prof Richard Dawkins who noted that ideas go through natural selection, defining a meme as "a unit of cultural inheritance" similar to a gene.

It is why we get different forms of psychologists - educational, child, clinical etc, different forms of biologist - molecular, genetic etc. Science seeks to find patterns, and these patterns are based on an observable order, A phylogenetic model of understanding. Which makes sense, as we all observe the same, objective reality. Hawking's "Universal Theory" was based on this. And everything is going to have overlap with everything else. Just look at the field psychology, of which I work in. All the regulatory disorders have co-morbid traits and difficulties, it's why they are put into "clusters". Meaning they share similarities, despite being different. It's why we have the term "comparative" in science, "comparative psychology, "comparative biology" etc. It's why we have the terms "similes", "metaphors" (I'm also a certified languages teacher). When you get to level of education of any sort of substantial level, making these kind of comparisons is just taken for granted. My college and university courses require it, as does my work.