@Therealsteve dang dude, don't be so triggered about the hair comment, jeez.

Secondly, red herring and strawman.

Don't misrepresent my argument.

@basilfawlty89 asking you what it has to do with what was said doesn't make someone triggered. What's it got to do with what was said?

'Not to mention you're trying to find information that justifies your opinion'. Yet stating that your view is that I'm just looking for things that confirm what I think is a straw man...

@Therealsteve Are you aware there's a massive political conflict over DEI as it is being wiped out as a concept governments and corporations use? It's not like federal programs for special needs kids are increasing right now.

By all means be self critical. But it's a weird flex to post something that just sounds like inane anti-DEI ramblings and then be all "Oh I actually love DEI I'm just self-critical".

@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

@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.

@SkeetSkeet congrats on copy pasting what I said

@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.

@basilfawlty89 true, you don't understand. And if someone disagreed with you over the internet then their opinion is always the one that's expressed overly emotionally.