BECAUSE DIVERSITY!: A “diversity” officer at Goldsmiths, University of London, Bahar Mustafa, sponsored a meeting recently to discuss the need for greater “diversity” in the curriculum, announcing on Facebook:
Invite loads of BME [Black and Minority Ethnic] Women and non-binary people!! Also, if you’ve been invited and you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME just cos i invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only.
Non-binary is a term that apparently refers to individuals who don’t identify as exclusively male or female. Ms. Mustafa tried explain the exclusion of whites and men:
Don’t worry lads we will give you and allies things to do.
How thoughtful and inclusive of her, especially for a department that touts as its goals:
- combat discrimination, victimisation and harassment
- advance and promote equality of opportunity between different groups
- foster good relations between people from different groups
Ms. Mustafa–is it a microagression to refer to her as “Ms.”?– describes herself as follows :
I am particularly interested in looking at the gendered body in Japanese pornographic anime and horror through a Foucauldian framework in order to analyse the West’s gaze upon a world it attempts to categorize. My politics are intersectional, queer, feminist, anti-racist . . . I am a working class, Turkish Cypriot, queer, disabled woman and activist.
Um, okay. I cannot for the life of me translate that first sentence into English. She is interested in Japanese anime porn’s portrayal of “gendered” bodies (is there any other kind?) because it attempts to “categorize”? Whatever. Yawn.
Apparently, the University was forced to back-walk its exclusionary policy, later posting “ALLIES NOW WELCOME.” Yeah, right– about as welcome as a bleeding pig in a lion cage.
Can you imagine a University holding an event and publicizing it as “whites only, please?” Of course you can’t. “Diversity” is a just a politically-correct label for discrimination against whites, especially white males. And it most certainly does not include diversity of viewpoint (i.e., conservative thought).
RELATED (kind of): Abercrombie and Fitch decides to ditch its uber-sexual teen marketing and simultaneously announced plans to continue to encourage “inclusion and diversity,” such as hiring more non-white “associates” (formerly called “models”). It also announced plans to establish the A&F Global Diversity and Leadership scholarship program with the National Society of High School Scholars.
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the Supreme Court case currently under consideration, Equal Employment Opportunity Comm’n v. Abercrombie & Fitch? This is a discrimination claim by a Muslim individual who was not hired by Abercrombie. During the interview, she wore a headscarf, though it wasn’t mentioned during the interview. She was later told by a friend that she wasn’t hired because of the headscarf.
Bottom line: Make it very expensive not to hire anyone other than a white male. And of course, make white men feel unwelcome as much as possible. Because #diversity!