Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The myth of diversity

[Tony G. Rocco (tgr]

Rob, you're saying that intentional communities 
should consist of people who want to be in intentional 
communities and are willing to participate in the 
necessary process of communication and building. 
That's reasonable and rational. It is taking an 
exclusionary attitude toward those people who do 
want to live in intentional communities by imposing 
additional restrictions based on class, religion, diet, 
political inclination, etc. that I object to. Once you 
have selected for people who want to live in 
community, the attitude should be as inclusive as 
possible, not as exclusive as possible. This doesn't rule 
out preventing a Ku Klux Klan member from moving 
in, but it does mean that the basic bias should be to 
include as much diversity as possible without letting 
in people who would be detrimental to the group or 
community environment. I wouldn't want David 
Duke or Newt Gingrich living next door to me either.

- Tony