Thread by @kylewalterdavis

Here's the thing about this DEI survey disaster: if you didn't respond, & esp if you started to respond and stopped, you committed a racist act. DEI work, and the work to get to it, are anti-racist acts. There is no middle ground.

I'm so disappointed on our community today.

https://twitter.com/mcmannello/status/1329927503683547136

This DEI work is not a neat thing NSGC is doing. It's not some cool idea. It's not something other people will do and you can just coast along.

It's imperative anti-racist work we all have to do for ourselves and our community.

If you got flustered hearing that you committed a racist act by withdrawing from the survey or ignoring it, then good. That means you have work to do. Luckily, GCs are a plucky group of learners.

For starters, at least read How to Be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi.

And then at least read lots of other stuff, too. 1619, White Fragility, So You Want to Talk About Race, etc. The list is long and it's all good to read bc neither you (nor I) learned anything in school. But you can change that. Read, think, talk with friends, act.

Next time you see DEI anything from NSGC, know it's vital. It's the social equivalent of the PSS & more important than the PSS. The PSS is about $$$ and DEI is about people -- your boss, colleagues, friends, students, and prospective students. The future of our society.

Fin.