I once helped my advisor write a grant application and he put in some great outreach stuff in the DEI section of the app. What turns me cynical about DEI statements/sections is that after we won the grant, there was no money for that inclusion programming and nobody ever checked whether we'd really done it.
It’s similar to making everyone sort their recycling, and then just throwing it all in the same landfill when it actually gets to the dump.
Why not actually recycle?
And/or if we’re not going to actually recycle, why make everyone go through such a complicated song and dance and spend so much time on something that ends up not mattering?
Wait, this is a lot more applicable of an analogy than I was expecting.
