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Beautiful People,
Diversity. If I had a nickel for every time I heard this word during the last year, I would have traveled far away to a place with no news and live blissfully.
In our exceptionally verbal, exceedingly broadcasted collective life, it’s quite an achievement to overuse a word in the English vocabulary, and yet we’ve succeeded.
When listening to the many mentions of diversity, aliens might think that diversity is a new concept. “Hey, guess what? We've just discovered that life is more varied than we thought. So many different attitudes and principles. Who knew?”
When I say aliens, I mean Democratic/liberals who most likely live along the shorelines and have the ocean to escape to in times of trouble. The last elections revealed to them that diversity isn’t limited to the predictable, typical groups of immigrants, women, blacks, queers, but it includes ordinary Americans, who are among these demographic groups that simply have a different outlook on life.
It is very honorable, not to mention scholar-istic, discussing diversity as an innovation catalyst in the industry and life while sitting in a contemporary designed living-room, or at a red-blue-white neon lighted TV studio. Citing research that has shown that being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working. Doesn’t those ‘different people’ include Americans who have different priorities, beliefs, and values? If so, why we are not treating them the same?
When it comes to tolerance and accepting differences, why can’t we admit we are hypocrites?
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Last week, President Donald J. Trump rescinded guidance that enabled transgender school children to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice regardless of their birth gender. By doing that the administration sent this issue back to the states and local schools to do what is best for their students.
I don’t mind universal bathrooms, just like in airplanes. I hate the long lines in the women’s bathrooms. I may or may not have used the men’s bathrooms in dire straits (e.g. intermission break). So folks, if we’ve found a way to share bathrooms at 36,000 feet, we can certainly compromise on solid ground. #GivePissAChance.
I wish for Gavin Grimm to win his case. Joshua Block, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU Nationwide, American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT Project, said that Title IX, a federal statute, barring discrimination on the basis of “sex” in education protects transgender students. I hope the Supreme Court will agree.
Having said that, I also accept and respect the beliefs and values of people who think differently about this issue. They have the right to be heard and to disagree. It DOES NOT make them homophobic, ignorant, close-minded, intolerant, hateful human beings. It only makes the people who think that bigots.
America is vast enough for everyone. It is okay to live in a community with which you find more similarities than differences. It is also a good solution to relocate to a place where people share your values and beliefs.
Inclusion cannot be forced; it should be voluntarily accepted by individuals.
XO,
Sharon
Diversity. If I had a nickel for every time I heard this word during the last year, I would have traveled far away to a place with no news and live blissfully.
In our exceptionally verbal, exceedingly broadcasted collective life, it’s quite an achievement to overuse a word in the English vocabulary, and yet we’ve succeeded.
When listening to the many mentions of diversity, aliens might think that diversity is a new concept. “Hey, guess what? We've just discovered that life is more varied than we thought. So many different attitudes and principles. Who knew?”
When I say aliens, I mean Democratic/liberals who most likely live along the shorelines and have the ocean to escape to in times of trouble. The last elections revealed to them that diversity isn’t limited to the predictable, typical groups of immigrants, women, blacks, queers, but it includes ordinary Americans, who are among these demographic groups that simply have a different outlook on life.
It is very honorable, not to mention scholar-istic, discussing diversity as an innovation catalyst in the industry and life while sitting in a contemporary designed living-room, or at a red-blue-white neon lighted TV studio. Citing research that has shown that being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working. Doesn’t those ‘different people’ include Americans who have different priorities, beliefs, and values? If so, why we are not treating them the same?
When it comes to tolerance and accepting differences, why can’t we admit we are hypocrites?
***
Last week, President Donald J. Trump rescinded guidance that enabled transgender school children to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice regardless of their birth gender. By doing that the administration sent this issue back to the states and local schools to do what is best for their students.
I don’t mind universal bathrooms, just like in airplanes. I hate the long lines in the women’s bathrooms. I may or may not have used the men’s bathrooms in dire straits (e.g. intermission break). So folks, if we’ve found a way to share bathrooms at 36,000 feet, we can certainly compromise on solid ground. #GivePissAChance.
I wish for Gavin Grimm to win his case. Joshua Block, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU Nationwide, American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT Project, said that Title IX, a federal statute, barring discrimination on the basis of “sex” in education protects transgender students. I hope the Supreme Court will agree.
Having said that, I also accept and respect the beliefs and values of people who think differently about this issue. They have the right to be heard and to disagree. It DOES NOT make them homophobic, ignorant, close-minded, intolerant, hateful human beings. It only makes the people who think that bigots.
America is vast enough for everyone. It is okay to live in a community with which you find more similarities than differences. It is also a good solution to relocate to a place where people share your values and beliefs.
Inclusion cannot be forced; it should be voluntarily accepted by individuals.
XO,
Sharon
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