Comments on: What is Diversity University’s Commitment to Actual Diversity? http://wesleyanargus.com/2009/05/05/what-is-diversity-university%e2%80%99s-commitment-to-actual-diversity/ Twice-weekly student newspaper of Wesleyan University in Middletown. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:52:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Nick Moutinho '09 http://wesleyanargus.com/2009/05/05/what-is-diversity-university%e2%80%99s-commitment-to-actual-diversity/comment-page-1/#comment-20949 Nick Moutinho '09 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:49:04 +0000 http://wesleyanargus.com/?p=9780#comment-20949 "What does it mean to have a liberal arts education without multiple points of view?" I agree with this rhetorical question, but it is also possible to have a racially diverse staff that has only one point of view (i.e. ALL of academia being flooded by leftists). I would have killed to have someone show me Bastiat, Hayek, or Mises my freshman year. Unfortunately, my introduction to politics class didnt feel the need to introduce classical liberalism, which shares many of the principles upon which our country was founded! My point being: racial diversity is undoubtedly secondary to intellectual diversity (as in points of view), and race is not a primary causal factor in determining points of view, although it has a partial influence. "What does it mean to have a liberal arts education without multiple points of view?"

I agree with this rhetorical question, but it is also possible to have a racially diverse staff that has only one point of view (i.e. ALL of academia being flooded by leftists).

I would have killed to have someone show me Bastiat, Hayek, or Mises my freshman year. Unfortunately, my introduction to politics class didnt feel the need to introduce classical liberalism, which shares many of the principles upon which our country was founded!

My point being: racial diversity is undoubtedly secondary to intellectual diversity (as in points of view), and race is not a primary causal factor in determining points of view, although it has a partial influence.

]]> By: alum http://wesleyanargus.com/2009/05/05/what-is-diversity-university%e2%80%99s-commitment-to-actual-diversity/comment-page-1/#comment-9907 alum Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:12:31 +0000 http://wesleyanargus.com/?p=9780#comment-9907 I oppose every form of racial discrimination, including the nonsense above. That a Wesleyan student is concerned because a professor does not "look like them" is alarming. This same fixation on exteriors underlies every kind of hateful prejudice. Furthermore, I take issue with the bigoted insinuation that white professors are somehow unable or unwilling to comprehend and convey perspectives "outside the Western European canon." A white scholar can't study/teach African American studies? A black scholar can't study/teach European history? Really? Please someone - anyone - disabuse me of my ignorance, because as it stands, I'm having trouble understanding how so many bright, educated Wesleyan students fail to recognize racism when it's staring them in the face, or in this case, coming out of their mouths. I oppose every form of racial discrimination, including the nonsense above. That a Wesleyan student is concerned because a professor does not "look like them" is alarming. This same fixation on exteriors underlies every kind of hateful prejudice. Furthermore, I take issue with the bigoted insinuation that white professors are somehow unable or unwilling to comprehend and convey perspectives "outside the Western European canon." A white scholar can't study/teach African American studies? A black scholar can't study/teach European history? Really? Please someone - anyone - disabuse me of my ignorance, because as it stands, I'm having trouble understanding how so many bright, educated Wesleyan students fail to recognize racism when it's staring them in the face, or in this case, coming out of their mouths.

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