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Diversity, race, ethnicity, and privilege

Diversity, race, ethnicity, and privilege

I am an American. That designation being insufficient for purposes of the diversity-accountants of the modern civil-rights movement, I am a straight, cis-gendered male of European ancestry, particularly Irish. Apparently, this means that I am the product of privilege. I am, in the sense that that I was born into a family with two loving parents, grew up in a nice town with a good public school system, and haven't been racially profiled (with the exception of a college summer flight from Dublin t

I am an American. That designation being insufficient for purposes of the diversity-accountants of the modern civil-rights movement, I am a straight, cis-gendered male of European ancestry, particularly Irish. Apparently, this means that I am the product of privilege. I am, in the sense that that I was born into a family with two loving parents, grew up in a nice town with a good public school system, and haven't been racially profiled (with the exception of a college summer flight from Dublin t…