https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943953/Former-Harvard-lecturer-overcome-emotion-shares-student-DEI-officer-destroyed-career-college-Twitter-shaming-saying-two-sexes.html?ico=related-replace

The audacity of young people never ceases to amaze me. Your brain isn't even fully developed, you have no life experience, and yet here you are, ruining someone's life because she doesn't think like you.

"She said, in her position as Director of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force within the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, that Hooven's opposition to terms such as 'pregnant people' was 'dangerous.' "

You need to fucking stop with this "words are dangerous" bullshit. THAT is what is dangerous. Declaring words "dangerous" is literally what they did in Nineteen Eighty Four!

"'Let’s be clear: if you respect diverse gender identities & aim to use correct pronouns, then you would know that people with diverse genders/sexes can be pregnant incl Trans men, intersex people & gender nonconforming people,' she said. "

Let's be clear - you're a smug little shit, and "gender identity" does not exist. I do not respect the stupid fiction created by stupid people.

"'Inclusive language like “pregnant people” demonstrates respect for EVERYONE who has the ability to get pregnant, not just cis women."

No. "Pregnant people" is not "inclusive", nor is it respectful. It is exclusive and disrespectful to women.

"Lewis' attack on Hooven sparked a wave of backlash online, with many coming out in support of the biological researcher and mocking Lewis' position."

Excellent. All DEI coordinators should be mocked mercilessly.

"Hooven said her department's DEI Task Force quickly had the ability to run departmental meetings, launch subcommittees into how to 'de-colonize' professors' syllabi, and make hiring decisions."

I love the "decolonize" bullshit because 1) you know it's all White people doing it, and 2) it really shows how racist they are, because it works on the assumption that universities outside the Anglosphere operate in completely different ways, which isn't true at all. My favorite is "decolonize math" because it would blow their small fucking minds if they realized mathematics go back to Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, two civilizations very much not White, Western, or European. The Hindu-Arabic numerical system, which everyone around the globe uses today, began in India and was spread by Arabs through their colonization the Middle East, North Africa, and what we now know as Spain. But oh, that's not what they mean when they say "decolonize".

"'A lot of the norms of discourse changed because of DEI influence,' she said."

Yes, and not for the better. DEI has made things considerably worse, and that's why I don't support it.

"It was very influential, and I know for a fact that faculty were nervous about p*****g off the people on the DEI task force,"

I know this feeling all too well. Fortunately, our DEI committee is small and doesn't have as much influence as they would like, but I keep getting asked to join it, and have to think of polite ways to say no, lest I suffer for my non-compliance.

"'I think that (Lewis) knew that she could get away with what she did get away with,' because of DEI practices, Hooven added."

Oh, this is also why I hate DEI. They preach "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion", but treat anyone, especially a woman, who doesn't think exactly like them like dirt beneath their designer shoes. "Diversity" means "people of all backgrounds who think like me". "Equity" means "I play favorites". "Inclusion" means "whoever I personally believe belongs". DEI is a scam.

"'I had expected that they would (support me),' she concluded. 'But nobody knew what to do.'"

I'm sorry, but you made the wrong assumption. A university is a business. They support their bottom line - money. Nothing more, nothing less.

"'I did think that if I go on Fox News and say there are two genders, then someone might have an issue with that, but I just thought 'well, I'm not transphobic so it doesn't matter if they say that because everyone knows that I'm not''."

Oh, you sweet summer child.

"The lecturer said she believes this came down to a statement from the Harvard student union, that her 'actions had caused (Lewis) to suffer racist abuse.' "

OK, even if Hooven did start a shitstorm on Twitter (she didn't), how exactly is it her fault that strangers online threw racist slurs at the smug DEI student?

"'There was no evidence provided, and I looked for it, of any racist abuse on Twitter (related to the tweet),' she said. 'But that was the narrative, that's all you need is just the appearance of something, a narrative.'"

Behold. Modern day "progressivism" in a nutshell.