It's sad that they couldn't just photograph real diversity instead of inventing it. I think it demonstrates the emptiness of being PC. You want to give the appearance of being diverse when you're not. Like make up, it's something you use to try to fix what you don't have.
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At WTS they could have walked into any classroom and photographed diversity, they wouldn't have had to create it. But the diversity police probably would have thought that there were way too many Asians.
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there were way too many Asians.
Catholicity?
I shared a classroom this week with old, white people.
Well the one redeemnmg quality of these hamhanded exercises in Orwellian photography is that mosy of them are pretty hilarious.
I especially love the black woman with the white belly.
Vitiligo?
I agree with one of the commenters on the linked site about the black women with a white stomach. No one would Photoshop out her navel and forget to change her skin color. So it is likely a undershirt under her sweater and not skin.
To be fair, the primary reason for a lot of this wasn't "PC" but rather marketing. If you are a business or a university that wants to be patronized by blacks or a company that wants blacks to apply to work there, then pictures that only depict white people are going to alienate them. (Before you feign outrage at the grotesquely racist attitudes and actions of black people, please propose statistics on the number of whites that have ever been members of a black church, lived in a black neighborhood, worked for a black owned business, attended a black college, or even considered such a thing.) Also, an increasing number of whites - especially younger ones - don't want to patronize such places either. That is why an increasing number of conservative Christian organizations - churches and seminaries - are doing their best to promote themselves as diverse also. Avoiding the "we are 99.999% white and proud of it, and even better our one black guy is Clarence Thomas!" is simply good for business.
"Before you feign outrage at the grotesquely racist attitudes and actions of black people, please propose statistics on the number of whites that have ever been members of a black church, lived in a black neighborhood, worked for a black owned business, attended a black college, or even considered such a thing."
Here's something you might not know about me, I came from a black neighborhood.I've also worked for a minority owned company (a number of whites and Asians also worked at the company) and I've also gone to a black church a few times and it did have quite a few whites. We decided not to attend because we had just come from another church where we were the minority (Norwegians were the majority) and we were tired of being excluded.
"That is why an increasing number of conservative Christian organizations - churches and seminaries - are doing their best to promote themselves as diverse also. Avoiding the "we are 99.999% white and proud of it, and even better our one black guy is Clarence Thomas!" is simply good for business."
My point isn't that they shouldn't advertise diversity, it's that they shouldn't lie about it.
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