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The New Color of Diversity Leaders
Corporations are increasingly turning to White men to be the point men on diversity projects.
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9 Responses to “The New Color of Diversity Leaders”
Why is “diversity” defined in terms of race?
The short article makes some valid points.
And while “non-white, non-older, non-men” don’t ever think so, white male management members can still be pretty savvy about how to steer the course of a corporation in current times.
The “old boys network” mindset is getting to be more the exception than the rule. You see it more in movies than in real life.
Because race is the area where the pushback against hyperuniversalism really took off–and is probably the area where homogony held the most dominance.
Jason,
He did say white men.
Yeah, I just keep wondering why “diversity” is so sought-after by its adherents on physical grounds (race, sex, ethnicity) and so undervalued in ideological grounds. David has now posted two articles in as many days decrying lack of “diversity” on racial grounds, but I haven’t seen nearly as much interest in the declining ideological diversity on America’s college campuses (including David’s, one I am somewhat familiar with).
I know this is a diversion from the actual topic of the post, so I will shut up now.
Actually, I wrote an article once in my college’s flaship liberal publication advocating increased ideological diversity on campus. I said it should be a trade–liberals support ideological aff action, conservatives support racial aff action, but I do agree with the argument (though I’m not sure what ideologies need to be represented in corporations, in colleges it is quite important).
I blogged on that point as well.
So I’m not unsympathetic to your point. Nevertheless, the fact is that race-based exclusion is a far more deeply rooted, epidemic, and pernicious problem than ideological exclusion, and one that I think poses a deeper threat to America’s claimed commitment to equality and justice. So my focus lies there for that reason, more than any other.
Why is “diversity†defined in terms of race?
Because in all too many instances it doesn’t really mean diversity. It’s codespeak for quota-filling and appearances.
J Steck – When law says that only Libruls or neocons can eat at certain counters, then attacks on idealogy will have the signifance, just like the “War on the Easter Bunnies”. When RINO’s are lynched in Maine or Harvard the Horowitz crowd has a valid argument.
In the 1950′s , the good ole days, even ethnic whites were locked out of the boardroom. Lee Iaccoca was an exception, CEO’s and POTUS are always WASP’s – Ford, Henry Ford II, Clinton and Bush. All are names of people on the Mayflower manifest. A Kucinich isn’t dismissed because of wacky thoughts, it’s a Slavic backround that stops the elevator before that glass ceiling.