Affinity Grouping (aka Neo-Segretationism)

[Graham2001]

A little article from TheFire.org discussing how the practice of 'Affinity Grouping' beloved by the Social Justice crowd may fall afoul of anti-discrimination legislation passed during the Civil Rights era.


I can remember seeing the phrase on right-wing sites I monitor along with plenty of commentary to the effect that 'If they want to racially segregate themselves, we'll be happy to help.' Where the 'They was generally assumed to refer to what is now euphamistically referred to as B/I/POC.


For consideration, here is the article:

With nearly 60 years having passed since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Americans have the right to expect racial segregation — at least of the “official” variety — to be a thing of the past on our nation’s college campuses. Yet along with others, FIRE has noticed a recent pattern of events that explicitly segregate on the basis of race.

https://www.thefire.org/trend-of-ra...tting-institutions-on-dangerous-legal-ground/

 

[cullennz]

A little article from TheFire.org discussing how the practice of 'Affinity Grouping' beloved by the Social Justice crowd may fall afoul of anti-discrimination legislation passed during the Civil Rights era.


I can remember seeing the phrase on right-wing sites I monitor along with plenty of commentary to the effect that 'If they want to racially segregate themselves, we'll be happy to help.' Where the 'They was generally assumed to refer to what is now euphamistically referred to as B/I/POC.


For consideration, here is the article:





https://www.thefire.org/trend-of-ra...tting-institutions-on-dangerous-legal-ground/

Interesting. Never heard of that before your post. Had to Google

With regard to your actual post.

Seems to be the same with the whole "gender" thing as well.

 

[gnome]

This comes to mind:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eacz1rPXgAAS04S.jpg

 

[theprestige]

I saw an article about a similar phenomenon in social studies, in the "X studies" fields. Women go into women's studies. Black people go into black people studies. Queer people go into queer studies, etc. The result is that everybody ends up studying themselves, rather than each other.

Except for white men, who apparently just study how to seize power, and then get on with it.