The following alleged remarks at a NOW meeting caused great offence in some circles:
"The California chapter president, Kimberly Salter, who was talking about visiting New Orleans during the National NOW State Presidents' conference and talking to New Orleans residents, stated that the residents were all very appreciative of "the Mexicans" for coming to work there and live in tent cities, and she added that it was a cultural issue, because Mexicans were used to leaving their families and living in tent cities to send money home, and that other cultures wouldn't do that."
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I have no brief for NOW. If someone told me that they are just a bunch of Lesbian harpies I would not be interested in arguing. But the remarks above by the NOW president seem to me a reasonable theory. It seems that the objection is to ANY statement about group differences. But groups DO differ. What is true of a group is of course not true of all people in the group but to ban statements about groups is to ban a very large area of discourse.
