Definitely agree with the conclusion of your piece. I disagree, as you seem to, with the narrow phenotypic way in which we treat "diversity" - it's a false god with a light correlation to the things that matter most - differing perspectives. There is a way in which needing x% women or y% "people of color" (whatever that means!) is a redu…
Definitely agree with the conclusion of your piece. I disagree, as you seem to, with the narrow phenotypic way in which we treat "diversity" - it's a false god with a light correlation to the things that matter most - differing perspectives. There is a way in which needing x% women or y% "people of color" (whatever that means!) is a reductio ad absurdum as well as we arrive at the conclusion that there is a "female point of view" or "black point of view", etc.. I see the infusion of race or racial stereotyping as pure noise that vitiates anything we might try to do - I haven't seen it lead to better outcomes, long-term, anywhere. I find myself more and more rejecting the idea of "race" (I am "multiracial") itself as the intersubjective fiction it is, rather than the profound truth some people treat it as.
"I haven't seen it lead to better outcomes, long-term, anywhere."
I don't know when some people forgot that this is supposed to be the goal. All the infighting and name-calling does absolutely noting for the people these movements are supposed to be helping.
Definitely agree with the conclusion of your piece. I disagree, as you seem to, with the narrow phenotypic way in which we treat "diversity" - it's a false god with a light correlation to the things that matter most - differing perspectives. There is a way in which needing x% women or y% "people of color" (whatever that means!) is a reductio ad absurdum as well as we arrive at the conclusion that there is a "female point of view" or "black point of view", etc.. I see the infusion of race or racial stereotyping as pure noise that vitiates anything we might try to do - I haven't seen it lead to better outcomes, long-term, anywhere. I find myself more and more rejecting the idea of "race" (I am "multiracial") itself as the intersubjective fiction it is, rather than the profound truth some people treat it as.
"I haven't seen it lead to better outcomes, long-term, anywhere."
I don't know when some people forgot that this is supposed to be the goal. All the infighting and name-calling does absolutely noting for the people these movements are supposed to be helping.