Diversity, Diagnosis, and Nonsense: When Ideas Turn into Ideologies

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Okay, I (Bruce) get to rant in this one. Bring on the arguments! How does the good idea of diversity turn into the ideology that makes universities insist that candidates for faculty positions sign loyalty oaths? How does the good idea of understanding the experience of trans people turn into the ideology that says you can’t question whether someone who grew up in a male body should be allowed to swim on the girls’ team? How does the good idea of differential diagnosis turn into the ideology that totalizes and pathologizes people?

More generally, how do ideologies turn otherwise intelligent, caring people into malevolent idiots?

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