I've often heard "diversity of thought" (i.e. conservatives) as being callously injected into the diversity convo. Typically this coming from white men. What are your thoughts on this?

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Two points—Given our political climate, I understand the inclination to equate 'conservative’ with all the anti-isms they have shown themselves to espouse. Not necessarily or historically true. I personally don’t kick it with conservatives, but I think it’s safe to say, I have (and we all) work with them and will always. That said, I do believe they should have a seat at the table, otherwise, we are liable of the very same silencing of counter-thought of which we accuse them. I also personally enjoy the intellectual sport of challenging their archaic and misinformed ideas. 🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️

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Diversity of thought is code for “I’m tired of talking about race.” It’s such bullshit. I think the industry thinks they’ve done enough for racial diversity and wants to move on, but we’re not done yet!

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Recall that racial diversity is being pushed as a critical business imperative because we need different viewpoints to connect with different audiences. So it is hilarious to see the indignant reactions like on this thread when someone points out that the viewpoints of 90% of the industry are products of the SF-NYC leftist bubble, and maybe we need some actual viewpoint diversity, instead of just people who find the same half the country to be deplorable.

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Yes! The stretching of “diversity” seems to be such a widespread symptom of this industry’s fear of addressing the uncomfortable realities of race within it. Is this not a distraction? Very “All Lives Matter” ... How do we everyone focused?

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I am frustrated as a Gay Woman who has given her all for 30+ years grinding to be the best. I have been in closet, out of closet, in-between and am tired of it. I want to be VALUED as a human being. I have gone from Rock Star to problem when people "found out". I have trained and promoted hundreds of people and been passed over for promotions because of not being a man. I have trained men with less experience, worse results only for them to move forward. If Diversity is important...prove it!

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I really feel like I should be excused from this "diversity and inclusiveness" training stuff lmao. It's about implicit bias and I'm sorry it's just not believable coming from an old white man's mouth when there are maybe 4 non-white associates. We're having these meetings 3 times this week. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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I’m sad that instead of showing that there are no differences between human beings, we are advocating for races (what I understand it is very necessary). Just afraid that will create more division.

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