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I think the article I linked to is dreadful. The sort of thing the Guardian specialises in, fodder to give the dim-witted something to fume about while they eat their organic muesli.
That's why I made the comparison with cycling. Just because the profile of the participants tends to be skewed toward the white middle class, it doesn't necessarily follow that we're all a bunch of racist bastards.
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As an muesli eating guardian subscriber any better newspapers?
The Independent is the only leftish leaning paper I can think off.
I might be dim witted but I think that's a judgement for others ;)
As a white citizen of nowhere liberal metropolitan elite job straling citizen of nowhere I don't feel personally attacked when people point out some activities are very white.
Best to think on how to share the space with others, reaching out can help a lot.
Often it's not overt racism, just social circles that don't overlap, so many local groups here make a point to visit other groups.
The local conservation group works with the Indian community center, the Irish dancing group a colleague of mine goes to visited the Muslim ran center etc etc.
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I thought it was a weird article - seems there are probably some legitimate concerns but also a lot of allusion to it automatically not being OK if a group isn’t diverse
JWestland
andyfallsoff
It depends - relatively homogenous people? yeah maybe, that seems fair.
Teachers dressing up in other cultures clothing etc to add a veneer of authenticity? Not so much.
I tend to think that whereas the first point isn’t great, it kind of depends on the reasons - being unwelcoming is obviously a problem, but nor can you force a diverse group of people to do things.
The second seems to me worse.