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?Diversity? For Thee, But Not For Me

A freshman at the University of North Texas, responding to an earlier article in the school paper, makes a good point regarding

the idea that a diverse faculty is good for exposing students to different ways of thinking. While I agree, a later statement in favor of diversity goes completely against it.

Olivia Sanders states that she needs a professor who understands her background and knows what she needs to do well. From what I can gather, that is saying someone from your background (not a diverse or different one) is the only one who can properly prepare someone for life after college. This is, in my opinion, slightly racist, and, at any rate, it goes against the very ideas of diversity.

Yes, it does. Unless, of course, when students like Olivia Sanders call for ?diversity? what they are really saying is, to paraphrase a popular campaign slogan, that ?we are the diversity that we demand.?

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).