My thoughts on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

@basilfawlty89 How does that denote anything I said? I'm a languages teacher and know that full well languages build upon previous languages. All of order and entropy, be it at the genetic, societal, language etc level is in a constant state of flux in which things are built up from other things (take the variation of species which adhere to a set of general forms due to step-by-step, gradual evolution from common descent, for example), yet this order will constantly seek to form homogeneous groupings, as that would adhere to the principles of the conservation of entropy.

It seems you want to find fault because you know I'm using what I said to make a point that you politically disagree with. Or what is your point, exactly?

@Therealsteve because the English language literally is not homogeneous.

Furthermore, you are aware most languages have influences from other languages including other language families, right?

I mean the very language we're using is Indo-European, which arose in Europe largely due to Neolithic Anatolian Farmers.

Proto-Indo-European isn't even from Europe.

Cultures don't exist in a vacuum, homogeneity is a myth.

@basilfawlty89 Ah, right yeah. I'm a languages teacher with an interest in history profound enough that I've been hired to do work on the family history of many people, yet I don't know that cultures and languages influence other cultures and languages. -sarcasm-

How about you go into a discussion with someone you feel you may disagree with without immediately going into "I have to make out this person to be stupid" mode.

Either you stop doing that, or I'm not continuing this.

@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.

@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.