At least in the US, things don't tend to simply improve with time. It's a decades- or centuries-long fight, tooth and nail.
And things are much better now in terms of university diversity than they were even 30 years ago. But people have been fighting that fight this entire time.
This right here is the level of urgency that will reach its goal in 2-4 generations, if we're lucky.
I didn't mean we shouldn't be doing anything. I said that we need to accept that it's going to take those centuries and plan accordingly. The "here and now" people are the ones who need to realize this the most.
> This right here is the level of urgency that will reach its goal in 2-4 generations
"2-4 generations from now" is the exact level of urgency to reach the goal in 2-4 generations. Inflating the urgency of things spends the precious trust people have in you, and harms our decisions by making us miss some things that actually are more urgent. To list a few global things that are more urgent than this discrimination issue of rich Western countries: global warming, sustainability, poverty in other countries, war in Ukraine and other military conflicts, poor education (yes, I'm looking at you, US), autocratic dictatorships all over the world.
And things are much better now in terms of university diversity than they were even 30 years ago. But people have been fighting that fight this entire time.
This right here is the level of urgency that will reach its goal in 2-4 generations, if we're lucky.