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These are dangerous times. Scientists globally must stand together for sound science and resist bigotry, bias and hate. To honor one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters.

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The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

Despite attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Black political representation has never been greater. Progress is still possible.

U.S. history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights, these liberal values compete with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class.

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Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism

DEI is not a conspiracy to make white people feel bad about themselves; it’s a society-wide effort to combat past discrimination against everyone who is not a white, straight, able-bodied male. For Trump, that is the problem.

Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.