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Our society is like that cartoon monkey who tries to pick a bunch of coconuts: she holds three in her arms, she tries to pick another one, but two fall out. She

Our society is like that cartoon monkey who tries to pick a bunch of coconuts: she holds three in her arms, she tries to pick another one, but two fall out. She tries to pick the fallen ones, but drops the rest... We proclaim "more focus to women" and we immediately forget "more focus to black people" we put on our banners ten years ago. We then jump to "more focus to lgbtqrst" and completely forget about women. Should we indeed focus on personalities and abilities, not on whether a person has a vagina or a certain skin color?

longerthoughts 8y ago
>Should we indeed focus on personalities and abilities, not on whether a person has a vagina or a certain skin color? Yes, we should recognize abilities and contributions irrespective of sex or race. The problem is that this historically has not been the case and to argue otherwise is to imply that people of a certain sex or race are inherently less capable. The problem hasn't been naturally corrected without deliberate intervention so far, so it seems reasonable to think a deliberate, targeted approach is required to make sure we're getting better at recognizing and cultivating talent from the entire population.