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Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 11:34:56
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On 6/19/13 10:25 AM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 6/19/13 8:12 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
On 6/19/13 10:00 AM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 6/19/13 7:56 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Why do you believe that my opinions are unexamined? I have
been thinking and reading about social, cultural, and
personal change for a very long time.

You made an assertion that's at least a little ahistorical,

That depends on which historians you've been reading.

Peter, it's a fact in the US and Canada that court cases preceded 
civil rights protections which preceded social change.  This has
been true for racial minorities, women, glbt folk, etc.  I expect
that there are historians who'd argue otherwise but allow me to
suggest that if so they are very, very far out of the mainstream.

I'm not a great believer in intellectual mainstreams.

It seems to me that without some sort of institutional change it's 
likely that for a few cycles nomcoms will try to be "sensitive" to 
the question of the underrepresentation of women and then it will 
be back to business as usual, because that's the way these things 
go.  It's unusual for people to voluntarily surrender their 
privilege.

Thanks for giving me something to think about.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/


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