The Thing About Diversity, etc
A sort of lazy gripe about diversity (and you all know what I mean by it when I say it) is that it rewards whining. Whoever can position themselves as the most aggrieved gets advantage (they argue to offset a historical disadvantage). While in a one off situation, this calculus may be right, may even be fair, but life isn't a one off situation. What we've done is incentivized whining. So now we get more whining in response like the younger sibling who says, "But wait...no fair..." And I think this is sort what you have right now with the Alt Right and that is, basically white folks getting in on the whining game. And the Harvard admissions thing we've got the Asian folks whining. So now we just get a whole bunch of whiners and it's a really poor look and so yes, I do kinda think this thing we call diversity is a problem, or at least badly defined.
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