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re: Is diversity a good thing?
Posted on 10/12/15 at 1:16 am to rpg37
Posted on 10/12/15 at 1:16 am to rpg37
Fact is we're heterogeneous, and we're never going to reach peak productivity (and the higher living standards that come with it) without enlisting and enfranchising all subcultures within a society.
Value judgements aside, we play better together when we think we're on the same team.
Value judgements aside, we play better together when we think we're on the same team.
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Posted on 10/12/15 at 1:42 am to reddy tiger
I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship
Posted on 10/12/15 at 1:51 am to GaryMyMan
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A great place for this discussion is on a SEC football message board populated with racist, uneducated, lower-middle class white bigots who blame all their failings on "libtards", "Obummer", and "blacks."
Spoken like a true condescending prick.
I blame myself for my failures and I demand others do the same. If that makes me a bigot, so be it.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 1:56 am to NashBamaFan
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lived in upstate NY till I was 16 and up till then had never heard or been told there was any difference between blacks , whites , hispanics , etc.. At 16 I moved to Nashville and it was a different world when it came to race.
Every school district in Mississippi was desegregated by 1970.
Boston public schools didn't start desegregating until 1974 and weren't out from under the federal court gun until 1987. LINK
Screw you, you Yankee a-hole.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 3:26 am to texashorn
I have been all over the world with my work and have seen many cultures. Some diverse and some not. What I've learned is that humans, by nature, want to surround themselves with people they identify with. However, when diversity happens organically, it generally works quite well - especially when people ingratiate themselves into the host culture.
What the diversity initiative, as a political tool, has done is forced diversity onto cultures, usually with people who are not willing to accept the culture of the host in any way. This is where the problems begin. To make things worse, the PC crowd has trained us that being drawn to other people like us is wrong, even in the non-racial sense. We are shamed for sticking together as the cultures that wish to enter our country remain absolutely inflexible in their own exclusive behavior.
Diversity is not the problem. The political expropriation of diversity is the problem.
What the diversity initiative, as a political tool, has done is forced diversity onto cultures, usually with people who are not willing to accept the culture of the host in any way. This is where the problems begin. To make things worse, the PC crowd has trained us that being drawn to other people like us is wrong, even in the non-racial sense. We are shamed for sticking together as the cultures that wish to enter our country remain absolutely inflexible in their own exclusive behavior.
Diversity is not the problem. The political expropriation of diversity is the problem.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:48 am to DrSteveBrule
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quote:Is diversity a good thing?
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Competence is. If "diversity" comes with that, then fine.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:32 am to GaryMyMan
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A great place for this discussion is on a SEC football message board populated with racist, uneducated, lower-middle class white bigots who blame all their failings on "libtards", "Obummer", and "blacks."
Your bio says you're a teacher, which I find to be the saddest fact of all.
Even sadder is that he thinks Thomas Jefferson actually wrote what he put in his signature.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:37 am to reddy tiger
Of course it's a good thing. But this ain't the best place to ask your question. You know- cultcha and all.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:40 am to LSUTANGERINE
Diversity of thought is a good thing. Having the most competent people on your team, regardless of ethnicity or race or creed, is fine.
Quotas and forcing diversity into something is a recipe for disaster. Let diversity happen naturally.
Quotas and forcing diversity into something is a recipe for disaster. Let diversity happen naturally.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:44 am to rpg37
All people should have their own place in this world. Somewhere they can call their own and preserve their culture.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:48 am to Easy
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People do tend to prefer to be around people that look and think like them
No way, I'd much rather be around attractive people
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:52 am to NashBamaFan
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It's the only cause. Problem is each generation down here in the south continues to pass on the same stupid shite over and over again. And it's not just blacks or just hispanics in the south , the whites are just as uneducated as the rest. And then they wonder why people from the north look down on them. Well because southerners are blind to the fact that the education levels in the south are pure garbage!
My old English teacher would have marked your whole paragraph in one color.....RED.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:18 am to rpg37
It's like every other word the left gets a hold of, it's become meaningless.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:29 am to Tigris
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It's like every other word the left gets a hold of, it's become meaningless
so it's only liberals? Unless of course conservatives are against diversity. No way that is true. Lol.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:36 am to rpg37
Like it's been said many times in here, forced diversity is the problem. If you force someone onto your team or work group they will feel like the outsider and you will see them as one. It's great to have a different perspective of things sometimes. For example an all male group having one female, men and women view situations differently and this can stop the group from ignoring a perspective, but let it happen naturally. If I have someone on my team it's because they have a specifically defined skill that I need, and they're the best for that job, doesn't matter if they're black, white, woman, whatever. THATS diversity, not what people call it now a days Forcing an outsider into a group they don't belong creates a lot of "them vs me" tension which causes the complete opposite of productivity. Politicians just like using the word diversity because it's a buzz word right now. Some people don't belong in certain positions just because of their race, religion, skin color. For example our community organizer of a president just because he's black, look how well that's working out for us now...
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Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:48 am to rpg37
No. Diversity is terribe. Really.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:52 am to rpg37
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of all domesticated countries
Please explain what the frick this means.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:54 am to rpg37
quote:Diversity is an old, old wooden ship...
Is diversity a good thing?
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:59 am to The Sad Banana
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Diversity is an old, old wooden ship...
Did it sail a long, long time ago? I think in almost everything is IS a good thing. From the Kama Sutra to fresh ideas in a company meeting it CAN be good. Forcing it to happen in society is not good though. It is why we don't marry out of our own family.
Hi SB. Hope you are well.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 8:10 am to rpg37
I think most of the conflicts are if there are too many women in the office. I can hear one now stirring up shite at 8:10
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