Diversity Debate - Quillette (Page 3)

Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.

Abigail Shrier

7 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters

A conversation with Jamil Jivani.

Quillette

6 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

What We Owe to ‘The Boys in the Band’—and Other Classics of Gay Film

I’m grateful to every straight director, actor, and writer who has taken up the cause over the last 60 years, and to their closeted friends and colleagues who inspired them.

Allan Stratton

28 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated

As one might imagine, it generally is opposed by many Black Lives Matter supporters, as they disagree with any implied parallel between racist treatment of blacks and the occupational hazards of police work.

Steven Volynets

16 Oct 2020 · 13 min read

The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity

Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?

Lorraine Clark

1 Oct 2020 · 7 min read

Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab

The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.

Stuart Reges

29 Sep 2020 · 15 min read

Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.

Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

How the Nonbinary Trend Hurts Those with Real Gender Dysphoria

Some nonbinary people will say that they don’t like labels such as “gay” or “lesbian” because they are binary terms; attraction to a man or a woman, even in the context of being gay, is still considered attraction to a binary gender.

Debra Soh

19 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.

Julian Vigo

5 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'

The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.

Nick Comilla

20 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’

Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.

Jonathan Kay

17 Jul 2020 · 9 min read

Discovering the Link Between Gender Identity and Peer Contagion

The lack of childhood history was critical, since traditional gender dysphoria typically begins in early childhood.

Abigail Shrier

8 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem

There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists.

Lawrence M. Krauss

3 Jul 2020 · 11 min read

Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists

Wæver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

5 Jun 2020 · 10 min read

Diversity and Discrimination in Open Source

What is the problem with that? Isn’t diversity something we should incentivize? As it happens, I don’t think diversity is either inherently good or inherently bad.

Rafael Avila de Espindola

26 Jun 2018 · 7 min read