Thread by @BrandonWarmke

1/ Philosopher Joseph Heath on the five dogmas of DEI

1. Race Is A Social Construct
2. Stereotypes Are False
3. Racism Is Not Innate, But Learned
4. Majority Privilege Is Unjust
5. Racial Disparities Are Unjust (Per Se)

2/ "In every canonical use of the term, race is determined by ancestry, and ancestry is a straightforward biological concept."

3/ "the way that many anti-racism educators have tried to encourage this caution is by telling students that these beliefs about groups are stereotypes, and that stereotypes are simply false, not just as universal generalizations, but even as claims about averages, probabilities, or frequencies."

4/ "The desire to believe in the innocence of children is powerful, but it should not be allowed to influence the study of human nature."

5/ "the advantages that stem from majority privilege are not necessarily unjust (should everyone be able to attend a school at which the majority of teachers are of their own race?). In many cases, the benefits are just a consequence of having mainstream tastes and preferences."

6/ "disparityism jumps directly to the conclusion that the outcome, being unequal, must be unjust. (This is most prominent in the work of Ibram X. Kendi, who defines racism as the existence of racial disparity in outcome.)

The problem with this view is that practically every disparity is the product of multiple causes, some of which are innocent, others of which are not."