Thread: It comes up often on Twitter and emails in academia, holding up flags to indicate diversity is inherently problematic for some of
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Flags are political and politicised. Asking me to choose to hold up a flag, be it the Union flag or the Republic of Cyprus' or both, I'd say
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no because doing so feels inherently exclusionary. This is the case for many ethnic minorities in the UK. We might have left "home" due to
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war, the regime, etc. We might not want to be seen as associated with something that hurt us. Diversity cannot be quantified using a proxy.
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I'm going to end with Eddie Izzard's thing on flags. Because fuck flags. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8 …
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