DEI Is Not The Insult People Might Think It Is
A look at recent rhetoric that ignores our shared humanity
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
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Election years sound a lot of alarms
Sound bites are little blinking, and winking, lights to signal to those of “your kind” that someone is out to get you. The worst are dog whistles, but most are just an ingroup signal. Are you an US? Or a THEM?
There are those who want division and those who want inclusion. There are those who want immigration and diversity, and those who are afraid of it. There are those who want sex and gender parity, and those who may not. The same can be said about age, class, color — every aspect that humans share. For example, if you say step mothers, or adoptive parents, are not “really” mothers, there is a clear implication that people are only real when they are genetically related.
There’s two ideas here: 1. A woman’s role is to have babies. 2. Those babies better be the right color.
That’s kind of Master-racy, isn’t it?