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Diversity is a bullshit term. It does not exist in reality. It's an illusion, a joke. Equality is a bullshit term. It does not exist in reality. It's an illusi
by angersock 12y ago
Diversity is a bullshit term. It does not exist in reality. It's an illusion, a joke.
Equality is a bullshit term. It does not exist in reality. It's an illusion, a joke.
See what I did there? You've got to explain why you think it's a bullshit term--because as an ideal, it's a damned sight more useful than whatever else people are pushing.
- c3o 12y ago- Because the criteria of "merit" usually "just happen" to be a description of the people who get to define them and evaluate others. - Because measuring only at the finishing line while ignoring how far people have had to come is in fact unequal, not equal treatment. - Because the concept victim-blames those who aren’t allowed/enabled/supported to succeed according to it. - Because it's a really astounding statistical anomaly that all those "meritocratic" communities "who don't care about gender etc." are in practice ridiculously less diverse than the population in general.
- angersock 12y agoThought exercise: reconcile concept of victim blaming with objective criteria-based meritocracy.