In a discussion around the merits of diversity in the university education, @GlennLoury defends teaching the Western canon to @JohnHMcWhorter. "You don't see anybody who looks like you? Are you kidding me? Everybody here is a human being."
Multicultural education has a lot of merits ( https://diversebooks.org/ ) but the idea that you can't learn from someone who doesn't look like you is odd and autocratic
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In this article I talk about one of my mentors, who came from a completely different ethnic background, but taught me a lot about my own. This stuff happens! People don't have to look like you to be like you. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/23/race-unlearn-blackness-thomas-chatterton-williams
A provocative new book argues we must 'unlearn' race. We absolutely should | Zaid Jilani

While many on the left now reject gender categories, they seem as determined as ever to enshrine racial categories. Let’s do better

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/23/race-unlearn-blackness-thomas-chatterton-williams
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