Tim Urban: Berkeley and UCLA require diversity statements for chemistry professorships
Tim Urban · #AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022 · May 26, 2022 · at 42:39
Author Tim Urban argues that university hiring practices enforce ideological conformity when discussing academic speech at the All-In Summit.
0:00 / 0:34exact quote · 34.2s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“Berkeley, right now, and UCLA, and about 20 other schools. If you want to apply to be a chemistry professor, The first thing that you do is you have to fill out a diversity statement, and it's called, that sounds nice, a diversity statement, but it's actually, you have to basically prove that you have a proven track record of social justice activism of the woke variety, not MLK style social justice, very specific social justice, and if you are not a proven activist that has the right political, that's more than even a political litmus test, you have to actually be an activist to get, to even be seen by the chemistry department.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Tim Urban
Urban: Wokeness is a far-left, postmodern, Marxist ideology
“I think wokeness is two things. It's a far left ideology, and it is far left. It's, you know, postmodern, and it's Marxist, and that's fine.”
Urban: James Bennet was fired for publishing Tom Cotton's op-ed
“We see James Bennett, the editor of the New York Times op-ed section, getting fired because he published an op-ed by Tom Cotton that 62% of the country agreed with, But it didn't jive with woke orthodoxy.”
Urban: Apple fired diversity head Denise Young Smith over comments
“You see Denise Young at Apple, a black woman who's the head of diversity, who says, to me, diversity is not, you know, it's more complicated than just about something like race. When I look at 12 blue-eyed, blond-haired guys, I see diversity. I see different p…”
Urban: Outrage mobs hijack reputable institutions and spend down their trust
“A mob like this, they don't build anything, you know, they don't create. What they do is they appropriate, they hijack something, they take its existing good reputation, which is real, which is a lot of power, And they spend it down.”
Tim Urban: The far left and far right aren't inherently bad
“The far left and far right aren't inherently bad.”
Tim Urban: Low-rung thinkers adopt rigid, predictable political checklists across all issues
“In high-rung politics, if someone tells me their position on guns, I have no idea what their position is on climate change or on abortion or on immigration. In low-rung politics, You hear one position from someone, boom. I, you can just look at their demeanor,…”