[Vision2020] Logos School's all-male board

[Dale Courtney]

> Dale, you make sense quite often, 

Why, thanks, Ted!  I'll make a Libertarian out of you yet!  :)

> 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?  

Ah! But is it diversity *within* an organization that matters? Or *across*
organizations that you are concerned about? 

Would you say that the local Jewish Community Center should have skin-heads
as part of their board of directors? That would be diversity within an
organization. 

Or would you argue that it's important to have diversity within
organizations only? 

> 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.

Again, I would argue that what a private institution does is up to them --
as long as they don't break the law. As Bill London agreed, there's nothing
illegal about limiting the board of any private organization to males only,
or, in my fictitious case, to "one-eyed Hittites". If a private country club
wants to have an all-female golf club, more power to them!

My other concern with your argument is the standard by which someone argues
for the appropriate makeup of a private organization. Again, if the Jewish
Community Center insists that all of its board of directors are Jewish, will
people holler that it's not diverse enough? By what standard do we have the
right to impose that upon them? 

Private property rights and voluntary associations here is the key.

Best,
Dale