Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
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Re: Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
#2Why not have equal representation on the board in the first place. Seems like someone thought, how can we solve this by stirring up as much controversy as possible.
Re: Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
#3> aimed at improving the representation of Indigenous, Black and racialized teachers
Globally, whites are a minority. But since that's becoming true of more and more places locally in the US and Canada as well, the term "minority" is being phased out in favor of "racialized". "Marginalized", "minoritized", and "historically underrepresented" serve the same function - sufficiently flexible and ambiguous that they can always exclude whites, without having to openly say "non-white", or admitting that whites are a racial group.
Re: Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
#4Why not have equal representation on the board in the first place. Seems like someone thought, how can we solve this by stirring up as much controversy as possible.
Would equal representation achieve a 50/50 split? The article doesn't say, but I am skeptical that the part of southern Ontario covered by this union is 50% "Indigenous, Black or racialized".
Re: Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
#5This is utter madness. How is this not illegal for running afoul of discrimination law? While we’re at it, affirmative action should also be banned for instituting discrimination.
Even leaving that aside, it is plainly illogical to create this kind of system. Where does it stop? Why not also allocate some weighting for the urban versus rural origin gap? Or for religious representation? Or for those who are overweight and those who aren’t? It is arbitrary to focus just on certain characteristics like race in this way.
Re: Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
#6So instead of solving the actual problem, you scale it up by bringing even more racism but now against whites, because now their vote is not as worthy as other groups, and now polarizing people even more by bringing more significance to the fact that someone may belong to another group.
Imagine a classroom of students, where the teacher says "the black student is not like the rest of you, but he is not the same with you. His vote is worth more." How would you imagine that would go? Why would you think that this is not equally racist?
Re: Teachers’ union implements weighted voting to increase minority representation
#7This is utter madness. How is this not illegal for running afoul of discrimination law? While we’re at it, affirmative action should also be banned for instituting discrimination. Even leaving that aside, it is plainly illogical to create this kind of system. Where does it stop? Why not also allocate some weighting for the urban versus rural origin gap? Or for religious representation? Or for those who are overweight…
It’s fashionable. It’s dogma. It’s ideology. It’s ultimately self-destructive. I only hope we don’t go down with it.