Diversity
2:08 pm Feb 25th
Diversity for the sake of diversity is complete garbage. Making a conscious effort to turn the workplace into a microcosm of the United Nations is a stupid, empty gesture. Nobody’s going to wander into your place of business and count how many people you have of each color.
“Oh, oh, oh! You’ve got three black people, but only two Indian people! You’re not diverse!”
Instead of defining your employees by arbitrary characteristics such as skin color, get your head out of your butt and try to see them as individuals, not just a way to lord yourself over the competition.
“Why yes, my third-world sweatshop IS diverse! 90% of the child laborers I use are of a different ethnic background than the white management!”
Despite it being a retarded way to do things, most businesses are diversified. Would a company be any less effective and/or productive if it wasn’t? Not a chance. The workplace as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts; removing a few people wouldn’t change anything. I’ll say that again, because it’s important. Companies, schools, communities, and cities are affected by the people in them indirectly. You know what that means? It means that DIVERSITY DOESN’T DO ANYTHING.
There’s just no good reason for diversity. People will go where they please; you don’t have to bring in people of a different race, cultural or socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, religion, different political views, different views on the death penalty, different views on abortion, different views on women’s rights, or anything else to make yourself feel better. That’s as small minded and racist as only hiring W.A.S.P.s. Hire people because they’d be a good addition to your company. Hiring someone for any other reason is a guaranteed failure.
I’m going to slap the next person I hear running their mouth about how important diversity is.