[Vision2020] Logos School's all-male board

[Ted Moffett]

Dale, Bill et. al.

Dale, you make sense quite often, yet here you show an unreasoning bias, it 
seems to me.

Why is it logical for a person who wants to promote diversity to accept the 
conduct of a group which is trying to limit diversity in its institutions?  
For the sake of promoting a diversity of types of institutions in society?  
If this is your argument, it is like saying that those who promote free 
speech should allow people to yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, or they are 
contradicting themselves.

Promoting diversity, or free speech, is of course subject to limits 
conditioned by the harm that the application of free speech or promoting 
diversity will inflict on those involved in specific cases.

Causing personal injury and panic in a crowded theater is too grievous a 
harm to allow free speech of the sort when someone will yell "fire" in a 
crowded theater.  In like manner, accepting sexist agendas that limit the 
opportunities of women is too grievous a harm to accept this, in the name of 
"diversity," without protest.

QED

Ted









>From: "Dale Courtney" <dale@courtneys.us>
>To: "'Vision2020'" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Logos School's all-male board
>Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:08:07 -0700
>
> > But, yes,
> > I think Logos as a private institution has a legal right (as
> > defined now by the US Supreme Court) to bar females from
> > serving on their board.
>
>Thank you. So now your question is one of preference.
>
> > However, I think that is wrong (such
> > discrimination is ethically
> > vacant) and foolish (diversity of perspectives and
> > experiences is vital for a well-functioning organization). BL
>
>Bill, you really surprise me. For someone who advertises his tolerance, you
>are *definitely* intolerant about this. I would hope that a champion of
>tolerance would be jumping up and down and saying that a private
>organization may do as it pleases.
>
>In fact, if you *really* believed in diversity, you would be heralding this
>organization as the only one of its kind to be so different.
>
>I guess what really matters is tolerance and diversity that you agree with,
>not tolerance and diversity in general.
>
>Best,
>Dale
>
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