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> Most fundamentally, in this context, diversity would be variety of ideas, experiences, and attitudes, especially those relevant to the things that people are learning about in school.

In the context the author wants us to assume, sure. But that is not what big-D Diversity is.

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." - Humpty Dumpty

In this case, of course, this is very intentional on behalf of the author, to argue a very specific agenda. Which I guess is fair enough, except that it is quite provocative in a generally bad way for society, IMHO. The author knows better and shouldn't depend on this ... diversion (heh) to promote his point.




I would posit that the advocates of "big-D Diversity" are the ones intentionally setting up a provocative and tendentious definition of "diversity".




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