What Conversations About DEI Are Missing
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Question of the Week
What is a belief or position you hold that you feel to be misunderstood or misrepresented by many people who disagree with you?
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Conversations of Note
As America’s media outlets and social-media users discuss ongoing controversies about diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, there is significant potential for people to talk past one another. DEI is so variable in what it means, or could mean, that misunderstandings abound.
Should one support DEI or those attacking it?
To my mind, the question is flawed. I could honestly answer that I am enthusiastically pro-diversity. I could also honestly answer that I am
