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Originally Posted by rubecube
In all seriousness, although it's not essential, I think it's usually a good idea to have someone with the minority perspective in there as long as you've actually found someone with a coherent take on the situation, and it's not just tokenism.
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These are people with legal opinions. Being black or gay would not make their opinions more or less valid. This is a telling statement - I don't know if you actually watched the thing, but after that joke was made, it was pointed out that there's actually a fair bit of diversity of legal opinion on that stage - even Volokh and Lukianoff, who are about as aligned as is possible among constitutional law specialists, completely disagreed about the impact of one of the major recent decisions on the first amendment.
Diversity of opinion is the only thing that matters. It may occur as a result of other forms of diversity, but those aren't an end in themselves, and if they're treated as such tokenism is the only thing it CAN be.