Randall Kennedy

Just suppose, and let's change it around, let's not make it a DEI campaign.

Let's make it a Make America Great Again campaign.

What would we think then?

Let's suppose it was something that said, instead of it saying DEI, let's make it say the advancement of American capitalism as we know it.

We want you to be down with that.

What have you done that shows us that you believe in the advancement of capitalism in America?

Would I be happy about?

No, I would say this is no.

Well, no, with respect to these, as far as I'm concerned with the, you know, the DEI statements.

Oh, here's another one.

I just learned.

And in fact, I mean, there's certain things that are happening that,

And I must say, I mean, I'm in academia, but it's news to me.

I didn't know until relatively recently about positionality statements.

So these are statements in which somebody writes an article.

Let's suppose, you know, I write an article.

And...

It's not enough for me just to submit my article to some law review or to some other sort of journal.

No, in addition to me submitting my article,

I've got to give a positionality statement in which I say whether I am gay or straight or what have you, in which I say my race, in which I say my nationality, in which I say my stance toward this ideological position or that ideological position.