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This seems like a very European perspective and not even responding to the OP’s question about why diversity helps. Here in the US most of my friends are secon
by opportune 4y ago
This seems like a very European perspective and not even responding to the OP’s question about why diversity helps.
Here in the US most of my friends are second generation immigrants - many not white - who are fully assimilated and just as capable as any one else. Diversity is, in my opinion, entirely about making sure those individuals are fairly considered and welcome, even if racist and edgelords think they must be incapable of fitting in because other people of their ethnicity haven’t integrated.
- chmod600 4y ago"fully assimilated" Then do they still represent diversity? I think you are confusing a rejection of prejudice (treating like people as different based on superficial factors) with desire for diversity (favoring people because of differences).
- fwungy 4y agoMany groups have arrived poor to the US and worked themselves up to over-representation in academia and the professions, without intervention. They were not white and not always native English speakers. To further diversity should their numbers not be limited, to make space for other groups that have not exceled in the same way? If racism is such an endemic problem in the US why have these non-white immigrant groups been able to achieve over-representation in academia, government, and the professions? Why would racists allow a system that harmed rather than benefited themselves. A lot of stuff around DEI doesn't add up. It feels more like a power grab hiding behind virtue signaling.