Teh One Who Knocks
05-13-2015, 11:19 AM
Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk
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A university diversity officer who banned men and white people from an event about equality has said she cannot be racist because she’s an ethnic minority woman.
Bahar Mustafa faced a backlash after hosting the event which she said was a ‘BME Women and non-binary event only’.
Other students disagreed with what she said, and Goldsmith’s, where she is the student union welfare and diversity officer, expressed concern over the views.
But she has now defended what she said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9uMArSeg38
She said: ‘There have been charges laid against me that I am racist and sexist towards white men.
‘I, an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist towards white men, because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender.
‘Therefore, women of colour and minority genders cannot be racist or sexist, since we do not stand to benefit from such a system.’
http://i.imgur.com/eJPS8mT.jpg
A university diversity officer who banned men and white people from an event about equality has said she cannot be racist because she’s an ethnic minority woman.
Bahar Mustafa faced a backlash after hosting the event which she said was a ‘BME Women and non-binary event only’.
Other students disagreed with what she said, and Goldsmith’s, where she is the student union welfare and diversity officer, expressed concern over the views.
But she has now defended what she said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9uMArSeg38
She said: ‘There have been charges laid against me that I am racist and sexist towards white men.
‘I, an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist towards white men, because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender.
‘Therefore, women of colour and minority genders cannot be racist or sexist, since we do not stand to benefit from such a system.’