Commodify me, Baby.
Oh, God! The pain! The horror!
Doesn’t treating “people of color” as faceless statistics defeat the purpose of diversity?
The University was slightly less diverse in fall term 2004 than in 2003! A 12.9% decrease in minority and international student enrollment since 2002? How will we ever go on? How can we call ourselves a politically correct campus with…gasp!…an increase in white students?!
Perhaps we should blame Greg Vincent: Dr. Diversity isn’t doing his job. The stats don’t lie, doc. All the fluff and nonsense leaving your mouth in those anti-OC leadership seminars won’t sway those figures.
Perhaps we should blame the UK, China and Australia for being more interesting (and less hostile) than the USA. Stealing our diversity: the nerve!
Perhaps we should just go home and cry ourselves to sleep knowing that diversity doesn’t love us anymore. People of color, why hast thou forsaken UO?! We’ll bow to your accusations of American hegemony. We’ll vow not to cheat on you with any other self-identified international victims. We won’t even act like The Man! Wherever you go, whatever you do, we will be right here waiting for you…(sob!)
