That’s well documented and while it creates blind spots it arguably has upsides and downsides in terms of creative pressure and change.* Set aside that the average progressive funder is way way way to the political and cultural left of the average American (and the average Black American it should be noted). Or more specifically the structure of funding.
I think an aspect of this issue that is not being discussed enough overall is funding. People are forced out for wrong think at odds with orthodoxy, even when that wrong think aligns more generally with broadly held viewpoints.
For instance, some education organizations embraced the trendy idea that deadlines reflect a culture of “whiteness” or white supremacy and then got to navigate what it means to run an organization where employees can resist deadline pressure as a DEI issue. Matt Yglesias sees a pipeline problem, Sarah Haider offers some ideas to escape it. Lots of other thoughtful reaction.Īlthough education media has studiously managed to avoid covering this in education organizations, it’s present in the ed sector as well. There is a lot of reaction to the Ryan Grim Intercept article I linked the other day about the struggles at progressive organizations.
