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Re:The moral case against equity language by Y_Y on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:13AM (#35006732)
A single person shouldn't be able to be diverse on their own! That's a property of groups. You can try to define a "default person" and then say you want each individual to differ from thst in your faviurite characteristics, but that's a different game and provides none of the benefits of actual diversity.
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Re:The moral case against equity language by Scarblac on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:37AM (#35006867)
It's me, actually. I'm 48, white, male, cis, hetero, graying, healthy, overweight but not obese, married with two kids, and slaving away in a wage job behind a computer somewhere.

"Diverse" specifically means different from me.

I feel it's good companies are looking for more diverse people to fill their jobs, I can't do them all.

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Re:The moral case against equity language by slackdog on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:16AM (#35011500)
I think you could reasonably describe a single person as 'diverse' in the 'diverse set of skills or experiences' sense. Like a jack-of-all-trades handyman. Or maybe for somebody that has a wide array of personalities which they reveal in different social contexts.
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Re:The moral case against equity language by the_af on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:31PM (#35014634)
> A single person shouldn't be able to be diverse on their own!

Agreed, but I've seen it used like this more than once, and it's both hilarious and unintentionally offensive.

A diverse group -- which makes more sense -- means something inoffensive: that the people in that group are different from each other, representing there's variety within the group according to some parameter (say, skin color).

A "diverse" person as used in PC language is... exactly what? Someone with "diverse ethnicity" (seen this used!) is someone who what? Was this person the offspring of an orgy of people with different skin colors?

Oooh.. I get it, a "diverse" person is someone who is not white, meaning the standard/normal skin color is white, and being "diverse" is to be "other than white", which is of course abnormal, because being white is what's normal. And people saying "diverse" don't even notice the irony of this!

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