Diversity adds up to discrimination

RE: Police board status quo holding us back (April 24)

The author uses the word “diversity” at the same time she is asking for discrimination.

Boards, just like the general population, are imperfect but it is somewhat judgmental to say these imperfections are due to lack of diversity as if diversity were connected to the ability to perform one’s civic duty. In this letter, I see more exclusion than inclusion. How could the author possibly determine the content of a person’s mind and character by the colour of his/her skin or the outer clothing he/she is wearing? Why does she assume that every person, regardless of colour, is not capable of representing all Canadians?

The act of separating and segregating groups and individuals into a hierarchy according to level of acceptability by those who engage in identity politics has a huge downside — it forgets that we are all one people under the Canadian flag. It is selectively prejudicial and it is discriminatory. Gary Gerofsky, Hamilton