"Diversity of thought means being open to people with different perspectives and opinions." Where exactly do you draw that line? As some thoughts are felt as h

"Diversity of thought means being open to people with different perspectives and opinions." Where exactly do you draw that line? As some thoughts are felt as hostile/ insulting to other people and enter grey territory. You can't really obligate people to be open to all thoughts - good luck with that. What does that look like anyway within a workplace? If such a memo was sent out in my workplace and I had a slew of different thoughts on the topic, would I be allowed to spend work time to pitch my ideas to my coworkers and discuss them to my hearts content or simply send out a memo of my own? And then where does it end? "Women tend to be more empathetic than men, and this may have something to do with why they're more likely to pursue psychiatry as a profession than men." While that may be true statistically it's impossible to prove woman choose psychiatry because they're empathetic rather a myriad of other complex reasons. I can tell you as a woman, I don't think Biology plays a large part at all. "But as long as affirmative action is conducted the way it is (discriminating in favor of underrepresented minorities), those prejudices will always exist." Affirmative action is meant to level the playing field and balance out the effect of existing prejudices and biases when interviewing etc. So the real question is do you think those prejudices exist and can be alleviated by affirmative action? I do and talking with the woman of the previous generation I would say we've come a long way thanks to affirmative action. Thanks for the discussion!