>> our dominant paradigms were based on racist and sexist assumptions
> I don't think they actually were.
Open a book!
The dscovery doctrine
In the USA there is westward expansion, both genocidal and racist
Women have only been entitled to equal pay since the 1970s in most places
Indigenous Australians were only considered fully people in the 1960s
Most European countries restricted the rights of Jews until mid nineteenth century (or worse)
The Tasmainian genocide
In New Zealand the invasion of the Waikato
Canadian Christian schools
In New Zealand Māori were denied university education from about 1880 until the 1970s (a very few snuck through, some pretending they were foreign)
It was legal to rape your wife until very recently
When a woman married she had to resign her job (my grandmother)
Until the 1960s in NZ a married woman needed her husband's permission for a bank loan
On and on, from my memory banks. I am no historian nor sociologist so I may have buzzed some details, but you should get the point. The West's dominant paradigms are historically deeply racist and sexist.
More generally it is prejudice and bigotry
Whatever, you should see why DEI, even if it has become a box ticking farce, it has deep roots in desperate need
> I don't think they actually were.
Open a book!
The dscovery doctrine
In the USA there is westward expansion, both genocidal and racist
Women have only been entitled to equal pay since the 1970s in most places
Indigenous Australians were only considered fully people in the 1960s
Most European countries restricted the rights of Jews until mid nineteenth century (or worse)
The Tasmainian genocide
In New Zealand the invasion of the Waikato
Canadian Christian schools
In New Zealand Māori were denied university education from about 1880 until the 1970s (a very few snuck through, some pretending they were foreign)
It was legal to rape your wife until very recently
When a woman married she had to resign her job (my grandmother)
Until the 1960s in NZ a married woman needed her husband's permission for a bank loan
On and on, from my memory banks. I am no historian nor sociologist so I may have buzzed some details, but you should get the point. The West's dominant paradigms are historically deeply racist and sexist.
More generally it is prejudice and bigotry
Whatever, you should see why DEI, even if it has become a box ticking farce, it has deep roots in desperate need