Talk:Diversity
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- In the political arena, diversity is a code word for forcing people to tolerate or approve people and practices they find repugnant. Diversity laws or rules forbid any criticism of certain protected groups of people; violations are labeled hate speech.
- "Diversity laws" don't exist.
- In the West, there are no laws "forbidding any criticsm of certain protected groups".
Removing: In the political arena, diversity is a code word for forcing people to tolerate or approve people and practices they find repugnant. Many US universities have speech codes that forbid certain criticism of protected groups of people; violations are labeled hate speech. Thus diversity masquerades as pluralism, which is the presence in one population of a wide variety of cultures, opinions, ethnic groups, et cetera.
As AxelBolt says, the facts are incorrect and the presentation is too partisan. Diversity is not solely defined or used as defined above. US universities do not forbid criticisms of "protected groups," only the manner in which certain criticisms can be expressed. -- April
I added a paragraph on diversity in the business world, where "diversity" is handled differently from the way it is handled in university or public-sector environments. I'm not advocating it as right or wrong. In companies where I've worked, this is how those programs have been presented. user:RjLesch
On a less divisive note, there is at least one that links here, but intend to refer to the computer science principle of "diversity" (of system architectures, etc) to prevent massive failures- can anyone think of where that link could be redirected to in that entry (Fault-tolerance, or some kind of cross-reference, or something? (Sorry, I'm new) - FZ
How exactly are white males a "non-minority group"? If 51-52% of the population are women, then men (or any proper subset of that category) technically can't be a non-minority, at least in the mathematical sense of these words. --66.102.74.57 03:29, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't that be Shannon-Wiener diversity index? Charles Matthews 19:15, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
diversity (technics)
a paragraph about the understanding of diversity in technics should be added. see in german wikipedia.de "Diversität (Technik)". may be someone can translate the german article (sorry i am not no native english speaker, so it will be better that someone other translates). j.
