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Originally Posted by 28StGreek
Is that just your personal opinion or is that actually a widely held view by NPHC members? Regardless, I find that kind of attitude to be disturbing if you at the same time criticise the lack of diversity of other groups.
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I stand to be corrected—I certainly could have missed it as this is a long thread—but I haven't seen DrPhil criticize NPC orgs for lack of diversity. I think she's made pretty clear she's not doing that.
What I have seen her question are the ideas that having a relatively small percentage of African American or other minority members = real diversity or that suggesting "they are just sisters/brothers and no one notices the color of their skin" = real diversity. I admit that I'm with her in thinking that attempts at "colorblindness" are in many ways the opposite of diversity, as they reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator instead of acknowledging what actually makes people diverse.
DrPhil can speak for herself—I have
no doubt of that—but what she's been saying seems pretty clear to me: If groups prefer not to be diverse, that's fine. But if they want to be diverse, then they should dive in and work at really being diverse, including understanding why they aren't diverse already, not just be satisfied an appearance of diversity.