McClean whinging again.

[John2]

I have zero interest in what it contains.

Herein lies the problem.

Your entire argument centred around diversity statements being a "bad thing" without any justification of why, or evidence you understand what they even are.

In any job, employers have a duty to find the right person for the role.

I don't think a diversity statement is at all what you think it is or has the effects you think it has.

If you don't even care what's in them and are willing to be spoonfed opinions by people espousing marxist-culture war propaganda... how can you be so sure they're a bad thing?

[vaterland_miller]

Herein lies the problem.

Your entire argument centred around diversity statements being a "bad thing" without any justification of why, or evidence you understand what they even are.

In any job, employers have a duty to find the right person for the role.

I don't think a diversity statement is at all what you think it is or has the effects you think it has.

If you don't even care what's in them and are willing to be spoonfed opinions by people espousing marxist-culture war propaganda... how can you be so sure they're a bad thing?

You know as well as I do what is meant by "diversity" and it is not academic diversity. It is social, ethnic and cultural diversity they are obsessed with and such concepts have no place in the selection processes for jobs or places at university. The only diversity that matters at university is diversity of ideas and opinions and that type of diversity is constrained by compulsory "Diversity Statements".

I wonder if the late great Roger Scruton's "Diversity Statement" was the reason he couldn't get a tenure position in his later years - a great loss to the students he would have shared his remarkable wisdom and knowledge with.

To satisfy you I have looked at a random selection of example "diversity statements" on the Internet and tedious it was but it was exactly as I expected. I didn't find any mention of academic diversity or diversity of opinions/ideas. I didn't expect to. I think you are deliberately wasting my time so that I'll eventually just go away and take my inconvenient "out-dated" opinions with me - and I probably will.

Why would you assume I can't think for myself just because I don't subscribe to the currently fashionable political ideas (ideas that are assumed by their proponents to be sacred truths that are the only mark of a good person)? I have never been "spoonfed opinions by people espousing marxist-culture war propaganda" nor have I ever been "spoonfed" anything that I taken on face value - I have always thought about it and read up on it (well that wasn't always very easy before the Internet but we did have books and magazines and journals and newspapers). I have spent a lifetime of active interest in science and technology and I have a diverse set of interests in the Arts and Humanities that have been informed from a wide range of sources. Where have you acquired your trendy, left-wing ideas John?

I don't suppose Putin's armed forces are very worried by the prospect more black lesbian RAF pilots but they are probably pleased that the RAF is wasting its resources and time on "diversity" nonsense.