The Missing Link

February 28, 2006

A Critique of Diversity

This is a rather eloquent critique of diversity as currently practiced:

Diversity practitioners claim that individual life experiences matter, and contribute to various positive outcomes. The claim is understandable; but the practitioners do not follow their own claim. Instead, individuals are stripped of life experiences that matter, and an externally-applied group identification is substituted. Worse, the group identification is often antithetical to reasoned judgment based on facts, logic, or even empathy.

The group identification is applied involuntarily (that is, by force). It is an outrageous violation of its own fundamental principle, that individual life experience matters. It is a miscarriage of justice, in that benefits and penalties owed to individuals are applied by group identification, even if the individual did not participate in, or inherit the results of, the attributed behaviors and experiences of others.

Posted by Conor at February 28, 2006 07:49 PM