Yes. We shouldn't define people by what they're not (white, cis-gendered, male,
etc.). But we should also adopt an expanded conceptualization of "competency"
that is more inclusive. What we think of as competency has been defined by people who
found their own specific skills particularly important (and their own race better than
other people's). To be inclusive means to understand and value the competencies that
people bring, in stead of requiring that people of colour can join as long as they also
have all the "white" competencies.
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On Friday, May 6th, 2022 at 2:59 AM, Lorenzo Losa <llosa(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On mer, 2022-05-04 at 14:36 +0000, H4CUSEG via Wikimedia-l wrote:
>
> > Can we stop referring to "diverse people" please? It's offensive.
>
>
> I'm sorry for that.
>
> If I understand it right - and correct me if I'm wrong - you are saying
> that calling someone a "diverse person" is labeling that person in a
> bad way. This is a fair point. Diversity relates to a multitude, not to
> an individual.
> To rephrase my sentence: we need trustees who are individually skilled
> and experienced, forming a board that is collectively diverse - that is
> able to express and create space for different perspectives and ideas.
>
> Lorenzo
>
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