My dissertation committee was quite diverse, but the members definitely were not selected on that basis. Diversity for its own sake is BS.
Of course, but this doesn't complete the absurdity of the painting. Diversity is BS because of two primaries; A) it is open ended, and B) someone must assume the responsibility of prescribing said diversity, and all the elements that pertain to 'diversity' as they see it, which places it squarely into some kind of twisted non-epistemological subjectivity category. In the end it is less interpretable to the masses than merit, which should consider skill levels, intellection, and so on. Our social hierarchy, regardless of how hard others try and tear it down, is evolutionarily bound to the idea of merit as a permanent facet of construction.
