Comment by overboard2
4 years ago
>Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion.
They disagreed with her politics.
4 years ago
>Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion.
They disagreed with her politics.
She had no politics that they knew of. They disagreed with willful misrepresentations of politics that she had never expressed, and felt that they could get away with it because of race politics in Georgia.
And they did.
Being willing to be part of a DEI office is politics, just like choosing to be a commissar rather than an artillery officer is politics. It’s deeply unfortunate that Ms Lewis was unaware of that but it’s going to become clear over the next decade or two of backlash that DEI is a loser, politically. People are going to either attack it or dissociate from it.
Are you saying that being asked to apply for a job is a political act?
>At first, the scope of the role gave Lewis pause. In her current district, these responsibilities were split among several people, and she’d never held a position dedicated to anything as specific as that before. But she had served on the District Equity Leadership Team in her Maryland county and felt prepared for this new challenge. She believed the job would allow her, as she put it, to analyze the district’s “systemic and instructional practices” in order to better support “the whole child.”