Tabbye Chavous, Chief Diversity Officer at UMich, has penned a long response to the NYT piece on her DEI bureaucracy.
Chavous says the article reminded her of “the novice student writing a class paper,” makes accusations of sexism, and then ties the piece to Project 2025. 🧵
She starts with a string of strong, specific condemnations: "misinformation," "disinformation," "sexism," "a preconceived thesis," "confirmation bias."
She then gives a quick summary of the article's ostensibly worst offenses. One is that she only had two days to respond to a list of questions.
Another is that the article only cites @PsychRabble's article on microaggressions, "very thin analysis," and not the "decades" of scholarship on the topic.
@PsychRabble She argues the Heritage Foundation is a "primary" source showing "the failures of DEI."
@nickconfessore mentions Heritage twice. Once citing the only study of its kind on the growth of DEI; once illustrating what conservatives think about DEI.
Therefore: Project 2025.
@PsychRabble @nickconfessore Says that the article is "rife with sexist tropes." Specifically:
1) mentioning her marital status
2) not mentioning her credentials
3) using "gendered language"
@PsychRabble @nickconfessore Seems relevant that Chavous is married to UMich's former head of DEI, whose marital status is thus also mentioned.
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