On ‘People of Color’ and ‘Systemic Racism’ — And Why I Am Sick of Hearing It

Spectator ^ | 2/28/2021 | Dov Fischer

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I voluntarily signed up for the first or second time the university offered a certificate course in “Diversity Training.” Each week we learned about another demographic group in our society — Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gays, Women, the Elderly, Indo-Asians — and then we would bond as a group each week at a group lunch at a restaurant themed around that group: a Black “Soul Food” restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant. I privately approached the program director and said, “Y’know, for all the sensitivity and group bonding, you are isolating me as an Orthodox Jew. All the group meals are at non-kosher restaurants where I cannot eat, and all the gatherings are on Saturday afternoons, Shabbat, the day of my Holy Sabbath, so I cannot attend.” He looked at me — this master of sensitivity and diversity — and said, “We cannot accommodate everyone, Dov.” That’s how I learned about diversity.

[ealgeone]

Selectively and Exclusivety.

[ealgeone]

We’re all people of color. Every last one of us.

[1Old Pro]

“People of Color” and “colored people” — two terms meaning the exact same thing. Only one is a new some and politically correct way of expressing racism. The other is too be shunned.

PC language police, this never should have been acceptable in the first place.

[JimRed]

Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but what constitutes a “gay” restaurant?

Check the bathroom stalls; if there are two pairs of feet...

[Chode]