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0 pointsomegaworks8y ago0 comments

* Why assume Group 2 has, or can produce, higher-valued thoughts?

* Why are there only three seats at the table?

Diversity and inclusion is about analyzing and addressing systemic assumptions and the arbitrary, exclusionary constraints we put on ourselves as an industry.

Contrived hypothetical scenarios fail to frame the real problem because those contrived scenarios are exactly what good policies push back against.

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dictum8y ago· 2 in thread

I don't see where the parent comment implies Group 2 is expected to produce "higher-valued" thoughts.

Neither more diversity of thought between members of a group OR a single leaning, shared by all members of a group imply higher value.

omegaworksOP8y ago

The parent comment doesn't just imply that Group 2 has more valuable thought-diversity, they state it out right:

> In [Group 2's] case, diversity of thought is valued more than diversity of skin color.

zaarn8y ago

No, that simply states that the diversity property of the thought is higher, not that the value property of the thought is higher.

And you claimed, quote, "Why assume Group 2 has, or can produce, higher-valued thoughts?"

Value of Thought and Diversity of Thought are two independent properties that can coexist independently.

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