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Tober said:
the-pi-guy said:

Assumptions in your first post:

Tober said:

DEI is not about diversity and inclusivety. It's about the Mirage of it.

It's born from the obsession to compartmentalize people in easily identifiable checkboxes. A spreadsheet in other words.

Let's put a Nigerian, Senegalese and Aboriginal all in the color coded bucket 'black', because of something arbitrary as similar shade of skin color. Totally ignoring their vastly different cultures. Then pretend if Samual L. Jackson stars in a Marvel movie, the Aboriginal feels representation. Where the truth is that Aboriginal feels more represented by Paul Hogan playing Crocodile Dundee.

There are thousands of different ethnicities and none of them are called 'white' or 'black'. And certainly not 'people of color'. Lazily trowing them in the same buckets and pretending that if every bucket is checkboxed is somehow representative of all, actually kills real diversity.

1.) That people think race is enough. That we can just put in a "black" character and call it a day.

2.) That people are ignoring vastly different cultures.

3.) That people are pretending that Samuel L Jackson is diverse enough, to cover aboriginals and other groups.

4.) That the goal is "checkboxing every bucket". 

No one is particularly advocating for these things as the end goal. At worst, they're stepping stones to other things. 

You do understand that this is not the place to write a novel to cover every intricacy and nuance. So to keep it readable and get the point across is to make choices. I made my choices to get the point across in a compact and readable format. For that point I refer back to my original post.

Is your issue the length of his response or something else?