Comments on: I am Brown, so what?

By: Kabir

Kabir — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 09:13:03 +0000

It’s a bit ironic that someone who is arguing that a British university needs to be more sensitive to racism supports a party back home that doesn’t treat minorities well at all (to greatly understate the case).

By: Clovis

Clovis — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 07:13:43 +0000

I have a lot of sympathy with the writer of this piece. They mirror the same feelings I have had being a man in the world of psychology research, which is almost exclusively female, HIGHLY AND ACTIVELY POLITICISED with intersectional gender ideology and where dissent from this position is not tolerated. Were I to voice my real opinions I have absolutely no doubt I would be accused of bigotry and find my position endangered.

This is how I feel anyway… I’m sure all my female colleagues see things differently. I’m sure they would feel appalled at helping create my feelings of exclusion and isolation. But ultimately I can’t tell how many of my feelings of discomfort are because of my simply being in a minority…. Not everything *I* experience is objectively real.

I wonder how much more real it would be if I spoke about feeling excluded all the time…? Would I be helping create a reinforced sense of isolation and alienation?
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By: Mitchell Porter

Mitchell Porter — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:15:20 +0000

Do they talk about “the OBC community” in India? There’s something very artificial about the attempt to treat these acronyms – BAME, even LGBT – as organic social realities.

By: X.T.M

X.T.M — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:20:08 +0000

In reply to Razib Khan.

Ha no – This is MJ https://www.gradunion.cam.ac.uk/directory/Mrittunjoy-Guha-Majumdar

Inclusive Cambridge can mean different things to different people

By: X.T.M

X.T.M — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:18:05 +0000

In reply to Violet. Yes intersectionality?

By: Violet

Violet — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:05:35 +0000

Not being offensive, but I find this very funny.
The writing describes exactly the experience of being a female engineering researcher at conferences or technical committees or management meetings.
Hahaha. A**h***s be a**h***s. It is their burden to carry and be hypocrites. Being a few standard deviations away from mean/median is our burden. Nobody said being different is easy. No point asking others to be different too.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:31:03 +0000

Let us truly build an inclusive Cambridge (if we can)!

wut does inclusion mean?

also, is that a pic of u?