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“Ériger la diversité en principe, c'est entretenir l'altérité. On évoque d'ailleurs de plus en plus souvent des minorités ethno-raciales comme des personnes "issues de la diversité", voire de "divers". Cette appellation pour le moins curieuse laisse entendre que certaines personnes viendraient d'un mystérieux pays nommé la Diversité dont les habitants seraient les Divers. La diversité ne serait donc pas le produit d'un mélange entre Blancs et non-Blancs mais le nom que l'on donne à l'entité exclusivement composée de non-Blancs. Les personnes blanches n'étant pas "issues de la diversité", nous en déduirons logiquement qu'elles sont déjà dans leur pays, la Normalité.”

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