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You can't solve social issues by forcefully addressing the symptoms. Diversity, in most of the ways the word is used, is one of the issues this principle applie
by happytoexplain 2y ago
You can't solve social issues by forcefully addressing the symptoms. Diversity, in most of the ways the word is used, is one of the issues this principle applies to the strongest. A less subtle example: You can't solve economic inequality by a forced one-step redistribution of trillions of dollars, due to the ephemeral nature of the solution, collateral damage, and severity of the backlash, to put it lightly. You have to fight to address the system, which unfortunately is hard to accomplish, hard to get right, and takes decades to produce results, so no wonder we want to cheat. It's the same with social inequality, but with even less clear options for addressing the system. It's an unfortunate reality of being human. One must accept that diversity is not an all-or-nothing topic. The human part of the equation is too intrinsic, fundamental, and enormous.