> Two-Spirit people now this is new.
How do you prove this?
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#12> In accordance with UBC’s CRC Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Action Plan, and pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights code, the selection will be restricted to members of the following designated groups: persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, women and gender minorities (transgender, gender-fluid, nonbinary and Two-Spirit people), and racialized minorities. Applicants to CRC positions are asked to comp…
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#13Asian Canadians are overwhelmingly the most over-represented group at UBC and due to this, minorities overall are hugely over-represented at UBC.
So do Asians count as White? Minority? Where do the Authorities say today?
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#14Majorly editorialized title for a link to the position posting. IIUC that's not OK by the site guidelines.
So does that change what the site says? Does that change the requirements for the position?
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#15Codified racism, plain and simple.
Not racism because it doesn't apply to race minorities only, but also disabilities, sexual orientations, or simply women (which aren't even a minority), but I can still understand that some might find it disturbing.
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#18> Two-Spirit people now this is new.
Nope. It's basically just a term used for trans/non-binary people in an indigenous community.
For example, We'wha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We'wha
The term "two spirit" is relatively new(1990s), but many tribes would have a term for basically "a man who lives as a woman" or vice versa.
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#19> Two-Spirit people now this is new.
The first documented evidence of it seems to go back 300 years, most likely it has existed hundreds, if not thousands, of years before that.
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#20My first reaction was, "This is fucking ridiculous!"
But after looking at their complete jobs page, it seems like this requirement of being from one of the designated groups may be coming from the source which funds the Canada Research Chair?
(see the PDF they link on their job description: https://academic.ubc.ca/sites/vpa.ubc.ca/files/documents/EDI...)
If so, then I don't really see a problem with it. It seems like it is a measure on the part of the government of Canada to increase diversity in technical academia.