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0 pointsceejayoz1y ago0 comments

I’m not the one redefining terms. Diversity covers far more variation than skin color alone. DEI efforts have long included things like “women in tech” or “LGBT friendly”.

Your country may be homogenous in color, but in everything? Closest you probably get to that is the Vatican, and even there there’s various kinds of diversity.

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Johanx641y ago· 2 in thread

Preferential treatment based on immutable characteristics. It's called discrimination. Great idea!

What you're engaging in is transparent and glaringly obvious. It's subversive and downright malicious.

Even in a cohesive and homogenous society, you are desperately looking for any and all means to split, fracture and divvy up the population in warring "diversity" groups that are constantly at odds with each other. There has to be something you can use right?

Young children, the elderly, women, atheists or religious folk aren't a diversity group. They are just people.

I know exactly what you're doing, and it doesn't work in cohesive functional societies. They reject it.

ceejayozOP1y ago

> Preferential treatment based on immutable characteristics.

No. Not preferential.

> It's called discrimination.

Using the US as an example again, we only got our first female Supreme Court justice until the 1980s. Two hundred years of men. Never a female President. This is pretty concrete evidence for discrimination against them in American society.

Somehow, trying to recognize that gets twisted backwards into the act itself.

A cohesive, functional society seeing significant gendered threats and violence: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2621gzvkdo

Why are black people “diverse” but women or Jews or blind people are not?

You keep dodging the question. Help me understand - what’s “diverse” and what’s “normal homogenous”? How do you determine which is which?

Johanx641y ago

It's very simple, I've lived in cities that have "black neighborhoods", pakistani neighborhoods, muslim neighborhoods, asian neighborhoods, indian neighborhoods and gay neighborhoods, and many more hoods in just one city. That's diversity for you.

People don't live together, they live appart, that's a fractured, atomized society.

Homogenous countries don't have this, people just comfortably live together. There's no blind neighborhood, amputee neighborhood or woman neighborhood... that's ridiculous. And people don't constantly think which "hood" they represent or need special discriminatory "programmes" to forcefully include "everyone" from every "hood" who demonstrably don't want to live together and want to form their own hoods instead.

Way less woman on average being interested in programming isn't a sign of discrimination. That's completely normal.

Re: link. Not interested discusing anecdotes of all sorts of warring internet weirdos. Is not an argument.

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