carrot colored dragons

I just want to take a minute to voice my utter distaste for diversity committees. The best way to make someone with a ‘diverse’ background feel welcome at your institution is to make sure they know they were chosen based on their abilities and merits and not because of the box they checked in the demographics section of the application.
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Stop pointing them out in a room full of other equally educated and opinionated people to give their opinion on ‘diversity issues’. The not-whiteness of my skin does not make my opinion any more valid and the whiteness of your skin does not make yours any less so.

Just get over it all, already.