This statement is fantastic! I am a faculty member at a university and my department requires diversity statements, which I am very much opposed to for the precise reasons indicated (they were not required when I started as an assistant professor). I would like to move elsewhere, but I am stuck because I would be forced to submit a diversity statement that I don't believe in, if I applied to another university. I refuse to do that based on moral principle (i.e., I'm not going to lie). Yet, like the author, I have a disability--a severe hearing impairment. But, because I'm white, that doesn't count. It's not the right kind of diversity.
My honest diversity statement
This statement is fantastic! I am a faculty member at a university and my department requires diversity statements, which I am very much opposed to for the precise reasons indicated (they were not required when I started as an assistant professor). I would like to move elsewhere, but I am stuck because I would be forced to submit a diversity statement that I don't believe in, if I applied to another university. I refuse to do that based on moral principle (i.e., I'm not going to lie). Yet, like the author, I have a disability--a severe hearing impairment. But, because I'm white, that doesn't count. It's not the right kind of diversity.