Diversity is not a good thing

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So, after seeing my thread title, did you assume I think then that diversity is a bad thing? Seriously, I am interested to know. Don't worry, I won't hold it against you. Because it is a subtle mental trap that is weaved by the politics of diversity.

It isn't a bad thing. It isn't a good thing. It's irrelevant.

I am really tired of seeing it championed as a good thing. Worse, a mandatory thing. It is seriously grating on me seeing its progression as it worms its way ever deeper into the fabric of our societies. I expect plenty of people don't even realise what they're doing, but as soon as you make it a good thing then you make the opposites of diversity a bad thing. Those are people who are white, male, old or straight. The more of these characteristics you have, and in order of least desirable first, none of which you have any control over, the more of a bad, undesirable person you become. It doesn't stop! It doesn't stop with something like proportional representation because it's already ingrained that white, male, straight, or old are bad things and the opposites are good things so the purging continues.

How was this allowed to happen? How did we manage to lose sight of and fail to defend the perfect principle of equal opportunity? Diversity championing is racism, sexism, ageism and whatever ism we have for discrimination based on sexual orientation.

So, I'm interested to know if you made the conclusion jump, and the answers to my questions and if there's any way we can push this mentality back. And if this post / thread snaps just one person who thinks they're doing something good out of the subtle mental trap that is diversity, then I'll be happy.

i admit i made the conclusion before i clicked the thread, but i agree with your post. it's irrelevant and we should focus on what people's abilities are and what they can do, first, not on whether they're black, gay or mexican, etc and worrying if we have enough of X people in a given group.

i don't have much else at the moment to say on this, sorry.

The wisdom in finances is "diversification".

Since your viewpoint is very hard to tell and I don't want to judge, here's a question that could put more light on it:

Are you for, against, or neutral to the rise in diversity in Hollywood films?

For instance, there are those on the right that complained this year that films like 'Black Panther' and 'Love Simon' exist - claiming that the existence of these films and the excitement for diversity was "anti-white" and "anti-straight." These same people on the right also ridiculed minorities for celebrating that they finally got to have films about people like them, for example some black people got called "racist" by the right for saying that Black Panther was finally a hero that they could relate to because they could see themselves in the character.

Asking this particularly since whenever these right-wingers were called out - they would say they didn't care about race or sexuality, they just didn't like Hollywood "pushing" diversity (which holding that belief against Black Panther for example, but not Captain America shows a clear line of thinking). I'm not at all saying this is how you view things, but many minorities have seen people like this which makes some of us skeptical about where a person might be coming from. Thus, answering this may help to clear things up and at the same time clearly distance you from those who claim they don't care about diversity while attacking the rise in diversity at the same time.

Diversity of what?

It continues to amaze me how, out of all the characteristics a person might possess, "diversity" seems to have been boiled down to mean level of melanin, genitalia and with whom one applies said genitalia. All three, I submit, contenders for being the least interesting thing about a person (generally speaking).

Figured I may have been a bit vague in my questioning, hence my edit above.

Diversity is wired into our DNA. It provides certainty that our species will have the best possible ability to survive.

Yes. You're clearly neutral rather than pretending to be, like some do.

I really like the diversity in movies.

I'd stop going if every movie was a comedy like Kingpin with vulgar juvenile jokes.

Or had to feature violence and death as major plot points.

I really enjoyed Mamma Mia! Here we go again and Crazy Rich Asians
as a welcome relief to "mainstream" Hollywood films.
Both have done well at the box office.

Diversity is having people of many different beliefs, cultures, and races in leadership, management and staff.

Exploitation is touting a movie as being important only because it features an all-female production staff, an all-minority cast, and an LGBT-Q actor in a lead role -- never mind about the plot, it's the diversity that counts.

The diversity checklist.