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This alt-right trope that diversity and inclusion is modern racial segregation should have been DOA but I keep seeing it crop up even here. Frustrating. The as

This alt-right trope that diversity and inclusion is modern racial segregation should have been DOA but I keep seeing it crop up even here. Frustrating. The ask is to become aware of and fight against your own unconscious biases, nothing more.

staticautomatic 6y ago
I think part of the philosophical disagreement here is whether fighting against one’s bias is a necessary precursor to treating people equally. As a practical matter I think that’s probably true for most people, but I’m not sure it’s universally true either in theory or in practice. I respect this line of thinking but it also assumes or implies that anyone who just treats people equally because it’s the right thing to do has either necessarily failed to confront their biases or done so without knowing it. I don’t know if that’s true or not but I doubt we’ll ever find out because it doesn’t appear to be a falsifiable assertion.
nec4b 6y ago
Oh the ctrl-left trope we are only fighting unconscious biases. Is fighting the unconscious biases like Don Quixote fighting the wind mills or more like repentance for the original sin your born with?
- komali2 6y ago
  Do you disagree that society should be equitable regardless of race?
  - nec4b 6y ago
    Yes I do. People should be treated equal regardless of race. All people should be individually judged and not infantilized or demonized because of their skin color. Everything else is deeply anti-humanist and leads to more suffering in pain down the road.
    - komali2 6y ago
      > All people should be individually judged This isn't in opposition to what I'm saying. > not infantilized or demonized because of their skin color. Good, we don't disagree. So, unless you're operating off some kind of strawman of what a good diversity and inclusion initiative does, I think we're on the same page.

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This alt-right trope that diversity and inclusion is modern racial segregation should have been DOA but I keep seeing it crop up even here. Frustrating. The as

by komali2 6y ago

staticautomatic 6y ago
I think part of the philosophical disagreement here is whether fighting against one’s bias is a necessary precursor to treating people equally. As a practical matter I think that’s probably true for most people, but I’m not sure it’s universally true either in theory or in practice. I respect this line of thinking but it also assumes or implies that anyone who just treats people equally because it’s the right thing to do has either necessarily failed to confront their biases or done so without knowing it. I don’t know if that’s true or not but I doubt we’ll ever find out because it doesn’t appear to be a falsifiable assertion.
nec4b 6y ago
Oh the ctrl-left trope we are only fighting unconscious biases. Is fighting the unconscious biases like Don Quixote fighting the wind mills or more like repentance for the original sin your born with?
- komali2 6y ago
  Do you disagree that society should be equitable regardless of race?
  - nec4b 6y ago
    Yes I do. People should be treated equal regardless of race. All people should be individually judged and not infantilized or demonized because of their skin color. Everything else is deeply anti-humanist and leads to more suffering in pain down the road.
    - komali2 6y ago
      > All people should be individually judged This isn't in opposition to what I'm saying. > not infantilized or demonized because of their skin color. Good, we don't disagree. So, unless you're operating off some kind of strawman of what a good diversity and inclusion initiative does, I think we're on the same page.