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> I find that the bay area and Seattle (my home) value the wrong kind of diversity. Its the unimportant stuff like skin color and gender that everyone means whe
by rifung 10y ago
> I find that the bay area and Seattle (my home) value the wrong kind of diversity. Its the unimportant stuff like skin color and gender that everyone means when talking about diversity.
The diversity that matters (diversity of thought and experience) is not the major area of focus for some reason.
Why do you say that it's unimportant?
I can see how you could argue that it's not the only thing that matters and that too much focus is being placed on it, but it is still important for people who are of a gender or race to feel valued, included, and like they are treated equally. Otherwise, they won't be as open to sharing their ideas.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agoThe computer doesn't care what color fingers are hitting the keyboard. Diversity of thought is the goal in the workplace (unless you've got some other diversity metric you need to hit for regulatory reasons). If you've got a group that's very homogeneous except for skin color and gender you're not gonna get much diversity of thought.
- a_t48 10y agoI'd argue that the difference in background that generally comes from a different skin color will help a lot with being heterogenous.
- ehnto 10y agoYou are conflating the goal of gender and race diversity with the goal of having a diverse set of minds. They are both important points of diversity but their goals and means are entirely different discussions.
- devmunchies 10y agoBut wouldn't ignoring gender and race show that you are valuing everybody equally? Its a Chinese finger trap. You have to ignore race to have better race relations. If you try to nurture race relations, it causes rifts. I have the same viewpoint as Morgan Freeman on this subject. He said to get rid of racism, you have to "Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man"