Bob Garfield, with an excellent tale illustrating this point below.   When you meet people one on one it is a much different thing than forming ignorant opinions about groups of people based on prejudice.   It is human nature to hire friends and people like you, if you have the chance to do so, but it is not always the best way to take care of important business, obviously.   We hear the new MAGA press spokeswoman lying about “illegal” diversity and inclusion programs in government hiring, and “sanity restored”.  Listen to this jolly crucifix-wearing blowhard:   

Then read Bob’s closing argument paragraph, read his post setting it up, and send it to anyone who is likely to benefit from it, or choke on it.

By encouraging and mandating diversity and inclusion, over time, the tribes intermingle. The sense of unfamiliarity subsides. Preconceived notions, suspicions and biases gradually erode. In that environment, segregation and old-boys’ networks see their bonds weaken, eventually generating the very meritocracy those racist and sexist Republicans are forever demanding. But, of course, they don’t want a meritocracy. They want hegemony, just like in the supremacist bad old days.

The Reading Times is an anthropological study for the ages. If you get a free sec, please forward this post to the piece-of-shit Klansmen now running our country. And may they choke on it.

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