[NCSG-Discuss] On Diversity and Discrimination

[Carl Smith]

Geographic diversity is primary goal we seek for the world view.  Sexual 
diversity will be a natural process.  And the guys here are going to 
have to step it up or these right and ready women will pass to 
leadership which in this group is good.

Thanks to all for the progress I'm seeing lately.  I encourage the 
respectful banter here.  Even some of the foolishness does lighten 
things up.

Lou

On 2/4/2013 12:06 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I agree with geographic diversity.
>
> On 2/3/2013 8:59 PM, David Cake wrote:
>>
>> On 31/01/2013, at 10:03 PM, Marc Perkel <marc at CHURCHOFREALITY.ORG 
>> <mailto:marc at CHURCHOFREALITY.ORG>> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree on interest diversity. Third world view needs 
>>> representation. I'm from West Virginia, kind of third world if 
>>> you've ever been there. NGOs, education, Libertarians, genius geeks, 
>>> and hookers. Hookers are always being discriminated against.
>>
>> I have friends who run sex worker activism NGOs (including one that 
>> is sex worker run by charter). Next time I see them I'll ask if they 
>> want to join NCUC. I think they'd be perfectly welcome here, and 
>> would fit in, but I'm not sure how much of a policy priority ICANN 
>> issues might be for them (but hey, .xxx, IFFOR, legal restrictions on 
>> advertising in some jurisdictions, etc - maybe they do have enough to 
>> justify their participation, I don't know).
>>
>>
>>> But - I agree with the premise about a broad range of ideas. But I'm 
>>> not sure that the source of broad range means gender/sexual 
>>> preferences/ or the frequencies of light reflected off the surface 
>>> of the skin. Especially since we communicate by email, I have no 
>>> idea what color anyone is, nor do I care. If we go back 75,000 years 
>>> we all come from Africa and humans are less genetically diverse than 
>>> my 3 cats.
>>
>> The actual ICANN requirements (and requirements within this group) 
>> are for geographic diversity. I represented the Asia/Pacific on our 
>> EC for a while, and as it happens I'm a white guy - but I do actually 
>> live in Australia, which is in that region, and so satisfy the 
>> requirements. Norbert has replaced me. He is also a white guy. He 
>> lives in Cambodia. Our residency does actually change our 
>> perspective, and inform our participation.
>>
>>
>> On 31/01/2013, at 11:11 PM, Marc Perkel <marc at CHURCHOFREALITY.ORG 
>> <mailto:marc at CHURCHOFREALITY.ORG>> wrote:
>>> I think my definitions of diversity are more relevant than the 
>>> traditional one in this context.
>> I do not. I think both your definitions of diversity and the 
>> traditional ones, however you define them, are equally irrelevant, 
>> neither more relevant than the other.
>> What are more relevant than either are the rules that actually apply 
>> within the ICANN world, the most significant of which is geographic 
>> diversity.
>> Cheers
>> David
>

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