Momma Angel wrote:Dys,
You totally misunderstood me. It's a long story but the problem with the Diversity Training we had was then every single difference (no matter how large or small) came to the surface. The whole point of the Diversity Training was to point out the SIMILARITIES of everyone. It wasn't supposed to divide the employees the way it did. In this case, if things had been left the way they originally were (the standards and code of ethics, etc.) of the company, it would not have had the negative effect on morale as the diversity training had. They company eventually dropped the diversity issue altogether.
It had nothing at all to do with bigotry. The company tried very hard to accomodate everyone. Unfortunately, it was not possible.
He doesn't misunderstand you Momma.
Dys and his Fellow Travellers worship at the alter of Diversity.
Their priests have pronounced that Diversity is holy and therefore anyone who might even suggest that there is something bogus about the way the concept is enforced in our daily lives must be a heretic, or worse ---a bigot (or racist - eventually the epithet will find its way into the mix).
Your company's Diversity Training was doomed from the start if it attempted to focus on similarities. Any meaningful discussion of diversity, whether applied socially or ecologically, must be based on differences, not similarities.
In the post-modern world, Diversity and Tolerance go hand in hand, and are the tenets of a religion every bit as fundamental as the extreme sects of Islam and Christianity.
Begin with the premise that there are no absolutes. Everything is relative. If the actions of the individual are to be judged, they must be judged within the context of that person's life experiences.
In such a world where every moral judgement is, in some way, legitimate (unless of course it is made by a Republican) how can there be any more important concepts to embrace than diversity and tolerance?
It is the philosophy of those who are either hopelessly optimistic or moral cowards.
