Steel Daniel, Paier Karoline
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada.
Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Synthese. 2022;200(5):357. doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03785-w. Epub 2022 Aug 22.
Pro-diversity beliefs hold that greater diversity leads to better results in academia, business, politics and a variety of other contexts. This paper explores the possibility that pro-diversity beliefs can generate unfair expectations that marginalized people produce distinctive bonuses, a phenomenon we refer to as the "diverse person's burden". We suggest that a normic conception of diversity, according to which non-diversity entails social privilege, together with empirical research on psychological entitlement suggests an explanation of how the diverse person's burden can arise in many social settings. We also suggest structural and institutional remedies to address the diverse person's burden, as well as an individual virtue we label positional awareness.
支持多元化的信念认为，在学术界、商业、政治以及其他各种背景下，更大的多样性会带来更好的结果。本文探讨了一种可能性，即支持多元化的信念可能会产生不公平的期望，认为边缘化群体的人会带来独特的额外收益，我们将这种现象称为“多元化者的负担”。我们认为，一种关于多样性的规范概念，即非多样性意味着社会特权，再加上对心理权利的实证研究，为多元化者的负担如何在许多社会环境中产生提供了解释。我们还提出了应对多元化者负担的结构性和制度性补救措施，以及一种我们称之为位置意识的个人美德。
