1. Wokeism is a social justice movement that aims to address sytemic inequalities. The movement encourages individuals to examine their own biases and privleges and actively work towards creating a more just and equitable society. 2. Wokeism places a strong emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion and recognizes the importance of representation and equal opportunities for marginalized groups in all areas of society. The movement involves a wide range of practices and strategies, including community organizing, activism, allyship, and education, all aimed at advancing social justing goals. 3. Wokeism is based on social conflict theory, which asserts that society is divided by power struggles between different social groups, and that these struggles are the driving force behind social change. The movement seeks to challenge and dismantle systems of oppression, including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination.
Jesus did not pray that his followers would be 'diverse.' He prayed that they would be 'one.' Modern revelation does not say 'be diverse; and if ye are not diverse ye are not mine.' It says 'be one; and if ye are not one, ye are not mine.' We teach our members to concentrate their efforts to strengthen our unity, not to glorify our diversity.
In the eyes of the diversity and inclusiveness czars, the STEM fields don't have a pleasing mixture of blacks, Hispanics and women. The effort to get this "pleasing mix" is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated, threatening innovation and American competitiveness. Universities and other institutions have started watering down standards and requirements in order to attract more minorities and women. Some of the arguments for doing so border on insanity.
A math education professor at the University of Illinois wrote that "mathematics itself operates as Whiteness." She says that the ability to solve algebra and geometry problems perpetuates "unearned privilege" among whites. A professor at Purdue University's School of Engineering Education published an article in a peer-reviewed journal positing that academic rigor is a "dirty deed" that upholds "white male heterosexual privilege," adding that "scientific knowledge itself is gendered, raced, and colonizing."
"All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by 'changing' (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?" Mac Donald observes, "Mathematical problem-solving is being deemphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is being slowed down so that no one gets left behind."
Mac Donald answers the question of whether scientific progress depends on diversity. She says: "Somehow, NSF-backed scientists managed to rack up more than 200 Nobel Prizes before the agency realized that scientific progress depends on 'diversity.' Those 'un-diverse' scientists discovered the fundamental particles of matter and unlocked the genetics of viruses." She might have added that there wasn't even diversity among those white Nobel laureates. Jews constitute no more than 3 percent of the U.S. population but are 35 percent of American Nobel Prize winners. One wonders what diversity and inclusion czars might propose to promote ethnic diversity among Nobel Prize winners.