Moderating:
Ms2001:
No, that wouldn’t be by my logic, because I haven’t claimed it’s a widespread problem.
Evidently we disagree on how to interpret the common English construction “equally [adjective]”—fine. Had I known what a distraction it’d eventually lead to, I would’ve used different phrasing. But I’ve explained at length what I actually meant, and at this point, it’s disingenuous to continue responding as if I meant something that you now know I didn’t mean.
Mijin:
You are being disingenuous.
You said that if the issues with high schools were as widespread as the issues with DEI…
So yes, while the term “widespread” can be used in a sentence in an open way, that’s not how you used it. The clear implication of what you wrote is that there are a significant number of cases of DEI with illegal behaviour otherwise why set it as a threshold ?
And if you mean even one case is too many then you could have just said that, no compare / contrast required. Of course, this would be a crazy position to take though, as we’d need to start thousands of new investigations and rescind just about every policy or activity in modern society.
Both, please drop the side discussion about the meaning of the term, “widespread.” It’s clear you will reach no agreement on this point and it’s become a hijack to the main topic of discussion. Let’s return to that, please.