Here my super selfish thought process. I want good people in my lab so I can do good research. How do I get good people? One key way is showing that they can get whatever career they want and be happy when they leave the lab. So it turns out helping them do that is in my own selfish best interest.

We need to be a lot more critical towards a narrative that can’t and/or deliberately won’t recognize that “unity” and “stability” sound good in a vacuum but have always been in tension with the goal of moving the country closer towards the democratic ideal of egalitarian multiracial pluralism.

Normatively, the “polarization” paradigm privileges unity, stability, and cohesion over social justice and equal participation; empirically, it gets the diagnosis of the current situation wrong; historically, it indulges an ahistorical nostalgia for a golden age that never existed. 4/