Ryan Boren<p><strong>DEIB and Their Adversaries</strong></p><p>What are diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? What are their narrative adversaries? We provide a glossary of terms below. Follow the links for deeply sourced reference materials.</p> <p><strong>DEIB</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/diversity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">diversity</a></strong> = a range of differences; variety</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/equity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">equity</a></strong> = the process of redistributing access and opportunity to be fair and just; the state of being free of bias, discrimination, and identity-predictable outcomes and experiences</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/inclusion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inclusion</a></strong> = the act of extending fellowship, membership, association, and connection—agnostic of rank, status, gender, race, appearance, intelligence, education, beliefs, values, politics, habits, traditions, language, customs, history, or any other defining characteristic</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/belonging/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">belonging</a></strong> = the extent to which we feel personally accepted, respected, included, and supported by others; the experience of being at home in ourselves as well as the social, environmental, organizational, and cultural contexts of our lives</p> <p><strong>Their Adversaries</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/meritocracy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">meritocracy myth</a></strong> = a widely held but false assertion that individual merit is always rewarded; the myth of meritocracy is one of the longest lasting and most dangerous falsehoods in American life</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/lowering-the-bar/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lowering the bar</a></strong> = a racist, sexist, and ableist narrative with no basis in reality that represents diversifying hiring pipelines, attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, and supporting them in the workplace as “lowering the bar” by hiring less-qualified individuals</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/resentment/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">politics of resentment</a></strong> = manipulations of status anxiety; organization of interest groups based on perceived deprivation or the threat of deprivation</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/equity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sameness-based fairness</a></strong> = notion of fairness where everyone gets the same thing rather than each getting what they need</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/fundamental-attribution-error/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fundamental attribution error</a></strong> = to underestimate the impact of situational factors and to overestimate the role of dispositional factors in controlling behaviour</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2023/04/01/conquering-gaze-from-nowhere-meritocracy-myths-marked-bodies-and-spoiled-identities/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">conquering gaze from nowhere</a></strong>= the interpretation of objectivity as neutral and not allowing for participation or stances; an uninvolved, uninvested approach that claims objectivity to “represent while escaping representation”</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/scientism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">scientism</a></strong> = the belief that science is the only route to useful knowledge</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/epistemic-injustice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">epistemic injustice</a></strong> = where our status as knowers, interpreters, and providers of information, is unduly diminished or stifled in a way that undermines the agent’s agency and dignity</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/behaviorism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">behaviorism</a> </strong>= a dehumanizing mechanism of learning that reduces human beings to simple inputs and outputs</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/ableism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ableism</a></strong> = a system of assigning value to people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/deficit-ideology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">deficit ideology</a></strong> = a worldview that explains and justifies outcome inequalities by pointing to supposed deficiencies within disenfranchised individuals and communities</p><p><strong><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2023/08/04/we-dont-prepare-students-for-a-world-of-potential-oppression-by-oppressing-them-better-get-used-to-it-is-violence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">better get used to it</a></strong> = preparing people for oppression by oppressing them</p> <p><strong>Name the Systems of Power</strong></p><ul><li>Neoliberalism<ul><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/respectability-politics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Respectability Politics</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/w-e-i-r-d/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">W.E.I.R.D.</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/meritocracy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Meritocracy Myth</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/policing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Policing</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/predatory-inclusion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Predatory Inclusion</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/burnout/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Burnout</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/stem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">STEM</a></li><li>Ableism</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2021/07/24/fundamental-attribution-error-and-harm-reduction-theater/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harm Reduction Theater</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/conservatism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Conservatism</a><ul><li>Resentment</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/southern-strategy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Southern Strategy</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/lost-cause/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lost Cause</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/segregationist-discourse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Segregationist Discourse</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/meritocracy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Meritocracy Myth</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/minority-stress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Minority Stress</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/policing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://stimpunks.org/policing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Policing</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/toxic-masculinity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toxic Masculinity</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/bodily-autonomy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bodily Autonomy</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/biological-essentialism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Biological Essentialism</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/stigma/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stigma</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/shame/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shame</a></li><li>Ableism</li></ul></li><li>Precarity<ul><li>Extractive Abandonment</li><li>Artificial Scarcity</li><li>Collective Risk Shift</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/burnout/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Burnout</a></li><li>”Better get used to it.”</li></ul></li><li>Oligarchy</li><li>Sadopopulism</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/rot-economy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rot Economy</a><ul><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2024/07/21/its-not-deis-fault-its-the-rot-economy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">It’s not DEI’s Fault; It’s the Rot Economy</a></li><li>Enshittification</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/metric-fixation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Metric Fixation</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/fantasy-economy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fantasy Economy</a><ul><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/stem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">STEM</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/metric-fixation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Metric Fixation</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/metric-fixation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Metric Fixation</a><ul><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/efficiency/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Efficiency</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/mcnamara-fallacy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">McNamara Fallacy</a></li><li>Enshittification</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/objectivity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Objectivity</a><ul><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/philosophy/when-you-measure-include-the-measurer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When you measure include the measurer.</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/scientism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scientism</a></li><li>Epistemic Injustice</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/scientific-essentialism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scientific Essentialism</a></li><li>Fundamental Attribution Error</li><li>Conquering Gaze From Nowhere</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/on-the-problems-with-science-of-reading/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading”</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/pathways/tech-ethics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tech Ethics</a><ul><li>Techno-solutionism</li><li>Technoableism</li><li>Algorithm</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/roaming-autodidact/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roaming Autodidact</a></li><li>Enshittification</li><li>Disability Dongle</li><li>Artificial Intelligence</li><li>Luddite Sensibilities</li><li>Hear me out a bit before the future comes around.</li></ul></li><li>Ableism<ul><li>Neuronormativity</li><li>Pathology Paradigm</li><li>Behaviorism</li><li>Deficit Ideology</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2024/08/15/empire-of-normality-an-important-book-necessary-to-our-times/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Empire of Normality</a></li><li>Sameness-Based Fairness</li><li>”Better get used to it.”</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/inspiration-exploitation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inspiration Exploitation</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/school-induced-anxiety/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">School-Induced Anxiety</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/toxic-positivity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toxic Positivity</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/burnout/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Burnout</a></li><li>The Road to Neuronormative Domination.</li><li>Education Technology and the New Behaviorism</li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/access/education/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2024/07/29/10-obstacles-to-neurodiversity-affirming-practice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10 Obstacles to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/double-empathy-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Double Empathy Problem</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/double-empathy-extreme-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Double Empathy Extreme Problem</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/triple-empathy-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Triple Empathy Problem</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/2021/07/24/fundamental-attribution-error-and-harm-reduction-theater/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harm Reduction Theater</a><ul><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/bikeshedding/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bikeshedding</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/wellness" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wellness</a></li><li><a href="https://stimpunks.org/glossary/mindset-marketing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mindset Marketing</a></li></ul></li></ul><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" 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