[jummy29084]

i’m looking at your signature line and it indicates ‘over 4 years of college’. it shows. why must it be stressed that ‘leaders’ (which i assume means the people forced to take the seminar) should ‘respect and honor’ each other. shouldn’t that be left to their own individual ADULT judgement? what if one of the ‘leaders’ isn’t worthy of the others’ respect? are they to respect them anyway because your program, taking the place of the schoolmarm at the head of the conferenceroom, struck the pointer against the table and commanded it? do you think yourself invisible behind the superfluous graduate school jargon? you want to know what people think when they read about the ‘need we have as members of our American culture to ‘un-learn racism’ and value ‘inclusivity’? they hear, ‘you are a racist, and you need to be told this by someone like me because you’re like an ant before the comparative clarity and breadth of intellect, you frenchfry-eating wallmart-shopper.’ they think this not because they don’t know you, either. they know you. you moved to the coast from indiana where you were somebody’s insufferably pretentious cousin — one of the kids who smoked cloves and listend to the cure in junior high and sighed with affected disinterest whenever anyone would talk with earnestness about what makes them happy. they are also not too stupid to understand that the jargon you use was crafted to indemnify you from ‘(taking) the risk, and reach(ing) across differences…to see the value of listening to ways that others are different.’ try being honest instead. use words that everybody can share. and if, after stripping all of the dishonest jargon away, all that is left is a nakedly hatefull set of personal judgements about people you deem to be at your feet requiring your training to be ‘diverse’, then you’ll know what to do with it.

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