{"id":17654,"date":"2021-02-16T02:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17654"},"modified":"2021-02-16T02:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:26:03","slug":"diversity-is-inherently-discriminatory-and-exclusionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/02\/16\/diversity-is-inherently-discriminatory-and-exclusionary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Diversity&#8221; Is Inherently Discriminatory And Exclusionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cIntersectionality\u201d makes it easy to unite people against a smaller and smaller groups of purported villains (AKA the \u201cKyriarchs\u201d), by adding new \u201csystems of oppression\u201d and thus ways a person can be oppressed. The flip side of this is that practically anyone can be an \u201coppressor\u201d despite also being \u201cthe oppressed\u201d, depending on how one is placed on the hierarchy of oppression, relative to others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Case in point, a Gay man who is raising mixed-race kids was prevented from joining a parent advisory group because\u2026 is is White and that wouldn\u2019t \u201cbring diversity\u201d to the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They didn\u2019t appoint him, and now the parent group remains all moms which means women must do all the work of the group. And seven hours after the meeting started, they still aren\u2019t talking about how to safely reopen schools.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Heather Knight (@hknightsf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hknightsf\/status\/1359382617682976768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That having a man join the board, which is 100% filled with straight women, would actually increase the \u201cgender diversity\u201d and also include an LGBTQ&amp;c. individual just makes it clear that \u201cdiversity\u201d isn\u2019t about diversity, but of excluding people based on their characteristics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yes, this man being denied a seat on the parent advisory group because <em>he was <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/john-s-2\/2021\/02\/15\/san-francisco-school-board-kept-person-off-parent-advisory-committee-hes-white-male\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not the right race<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">San Francisco board of education commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattalexandersf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mattalexandersf<\/a> on why he doesn\u2019t approve of the candidacy of a white gay dad hoping to volunteer his time for a parent advisory group. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RQZWYEbvFU\">https:\/\/t.co\/RQZWYEbvFU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2u8Ex8hHKd\">pic.twitter.com\/2u8Ex8hHKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sophie Bearman (@stbearman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stbearman\/status\/1359400702485827585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That this is against the state of California\u2019s ban on racial discrimination (upheld by the people thereof in the November 2020 election) doesn\u2019t seem to stop this discrimination from happening. This raised the question: Who <em>really<\/em> has <em>systemic privilege<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists.jpg 408w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Diversity Is Inherently Discriminatory And Exclusionary\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"'Intersectionality' makes it easy to unite people against a smaller and smaller groups of purported villains (AKA the \u201cKyriarchs\u201d), by adding new 'systems of oppression' and thus ways a person can be oppressed.  The flip side of this is that practically anyone can be an 'oppressor' despite also being 'the oppressed', depending on how one is placed on the hierarchy of oppression, relative to others.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cIntersectionality\u201d makes it easy to unite people against a smaller and smaller groups of purported villains (AKA the \u201cKyriarchs\u201d), by adding new \u201csystems of oppression\u201d and thus ways a person can be oppressed. The flip side of this is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/02\/16\/diversity-is-inherently-discriminatory-and-exclusionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[15,46,24,48],"class_list":["post-17654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17655,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654\/revisions\/17655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}