I see no contradiction between the argument “A more diverse university community opens all students up to a broader range of perspectives, helping them become b

I see no contradiction between the argument “A more diverse university community opens all students up to a broader range of perspectives, helping them become better problem solvers and introducing them to new ways of thinking.” and the objection when a black student is “expected to be an authority on the lives of all black people.” Catholic students aren't expected to be an authority on all Catholic people. The idea is the diverse viewpoints can contribute to a variety of situations. This can be a simple as identifying race-based technology bias. Perhaps a class project is to develop a facial recognition system, and the students realize they built one that doesn't recognize the faces of the black students in the class. Better this happen in class than in real-world situation with stronger consequences, like we've read about here on HN. It can come up in a discussion of Sparta; perhaps the black student will more likely bring up the question of who provided the food and other supplies for the 300. Speaking of religion, I was at a talk where the speaker compared InChI (a way to represent molecular structures as a unique string suitable for database lookups) as a sort of Bible, along the lines of "there's only one version, but there are many translations." I objected to the analogy, asking if he meant the Catholic Bible, the Protestant Bible, or the Orthodox Bible? I am no expert on any of those bibles, but my background in multi-cultural Miami might mean I had a context that someone from a monocultural region might not have. > The idea, again, is that there’s something offensive about a Black person being asked to arbitrate the Black view on a given issue — but what if white writers don’t ask? I had a very different interpretation of the evidence presented. Henderson was paid to be a writer. Instead, "[m]uch of her job amounted to answering a single question." That's not writing. It's not going to advance her career if she has fewer writing credits than her co-workers. Studios hire specialists to ensure that, say, the technobabble in Star Trek has the right ring to it. If part of her job is "to arbitrate the Black view on a given issue", then she should be paid for the extra job reponsibilities. Or the studio should hire someone who is actually a specialist. Or hire more writers with knowledge of "the Black view", since it sounds like the studio was overworking her.