The Analytical Series - Part Three Best Core Forum: Using Critical Reflection to Navigate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Issues Analyzing the ALA and the pending Core Forum Programming of 2024 (original) (raw)
The contemporary social justice imperatives are not wrong in and of themselves, rather the problem is about the practical inability to answer causation. Social justice and civil rights movements are not wrong to want to address the effect or the consequences but they largely lack the practical capacity to address causation and this is legendary. There are, for instance, United Nations (UN) studies of multination, multi-year, social justice movements that illustrate that about 90% of them fail. And why? Because they fail to address causation.
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