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mitment. And that's precisely what happened; I could see it in
the men's faces. They supported the idea, smoothly and soberly.
They held steady at the level of principle-let's hire and maintain more senior women-and suspended thoughts of actual
practices of hiring and promotion in the future and in the past,
including the practices that put them in their current positions.
They could vote "Aye" without facing what the resolution said
about them. As I observed them in the meeting and at its conclusion, they didn't look or act differently from the women in the
room. In their minds at that moment, they were no different from
the women around them. In other words, they were in bad faith.
They had managed to ignore the very sexual reality that others
in the meeting highlighted. To escape the implied accusation of
sexism, they unsexed themselves.
This episode is another piece of evidence for why it is a mistake
to judge academics as cynical or canny or simply dishonest when
they rehearse the progressive axioms of diversity and inclusion.
They have done it too many times and for too long for the egalitarian claim to be merely a lie or shtick. Few people can pretend
so adroitly for months and years in professional spheres, turning
on the fakery when they have to and dropping it as soon as they
leave the room. It is cognitively arduous, not just morally discomfiting, to playact day in and day out. It fosters an internal conflict
as well as the external one. Conformity is easier. All that the professors need is a self-deluding way to make the progressive wishlist true, to utter diversity and inclusion and tolerance and equality
and believe in them at the instant of utterance. Something goes
"click" in their heads and they become sincere. It doesn't matter that the utterance has no referent in the real world. It doesn't
have to, not when it receives certain approval from colleagues
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