Many in the STEM fields now use "JEDI" as the acronym for "justice, equality, diversity, and inclusion." This, however, is offensive according to these academics (mostly from education schools). One mathematician who sent this to me, singled out this passage from the article:
[T]he Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.). The Jedi are also an exclusionary cult, membership to which is partly predicated on the possession of heightened psychic and physical abilities (or “Force-sensitivity”).
The mathematician added: "At first I was certain it was Onion-style parody. But the rest is too sanctimonious. Maybe we *are* in end-times?" Characteriznig the Jedi as "white" makes about as much sense as characterizing Plato as "white." Vide Professor Reed.
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