Forcing Diversity

>> Please don't forget that sometimes people prefer division because they don't know where all the hidden triggers are in someone else's culture and they dread the fuss that they imagine would soon follow when (NOT IF) they made a bad enough mistake. (I've known plenty of white people who avoided black people like the plague simply for this one reason.) <<

That is true. However, it is straightforward to fix with information and exposure.

Another big reason is simply different preferences and this above all else must be defended. If you put black Revivalists with Quakers then they would all be miserable and that would be abusive. Similarly blind people and deaf people benefit from opposed environmental features. Some needs and tastes are simply incompatible.

>> It takes time and someone who's willing to understand and overlook newby cultural mistakes to teach them enough of the nuances/body language/good manners to get by comfortably in a foreign culture (just teaching the language isn't enough). <<

Yeah, that's a challenge.

>> What's needed is a way to help the people who are reluctant to diversify, so that they gain the confidence needed to become comfortable with it.
Actually, once you provide a positive atmosphere for the reluctant-to-diversify, you might be pleasantly surprised at how few actual haters are left.
(Crosses fingers hoping I'm correct about this.) <<

Well, Terramagne got a lot out of Sankofa. The same approach works here, when people put some effort into it.

>> Speaking of diversity, there is a drive going on to rid the work place of a very vulnerable group of people although none will ever admit to it.<<

It's worse and wider than that.

>> For several decades now employers have been working hard to "cherry-pick" their workers, but it's become really hard since the recession of 2008. Job applicants often face months of multiple interviews, tests of different sorts such as personality and IQ tests, background and credit checks, and then the final hurdle of all: Short-term contracts that might be extended if they like the job you do for them, and etc.<<

Yeah, that's brutal. It's no longer about whether someone can do the work, but whether they are pleasing. And the fact is, most humans aren't. They're all a mix of good and bad features. At work, frankly little of that is relevant unless they are in public relations, prostitution, or some other profession that actually depends on pleasing people. Most don't. So when you add that requirement to the job itself, you crowd out large swaths of people and make most of the remainder anxious. Most of what employers demand now is none of their fucking business. It is a recipe for disaster.

>> I keep seeing little articles on business magazine websites that discuss the need for emotional maturity among your employees. And then I turn around and notice all the gobs of youtube video's that discuss all the traits/signs/symptoms of "high-functioning" plus autism, asperger's, depression, anxiety, etc.
I can't help but think these companies have given instructions to their HR directors to deliberately sort out anyone who might have trouble fitting in no matter the reason, the "neuro-variant". Especially now that it's become public knowledge what all this stuff looks like in people.
Our laws don't protect the neuro-variant from being discriminated against by would-be employers.<<

It's not just neurodiversity that most employers don't want. They also don't want introverts. They don't want people who might argue. They want all their employees to fit the "image" -- which is often physical as well as emotional, shutting out even more. It's rampant homogenization with dire effects on people's physical and mental and financial health. It's evil, in a petty way that few recognize, but it is doing tremendous damage.

The only ways I see to fix it are people choosing careers that don't involve letting an employer abuse them like that, starting their own business with better ethics, and boycotting businesses with egregious public offenses. I doubt anyone is capable of seeing the connections well enough to try banning those practices. Though perhaps eventually employers will realize that the tests are worthless if people study what answers are desired and give those instead of honest ones.

On the bright side, we're really moving out of the period in which working for other people is the norm. With so much automation, there are fewer and fewer mass-produced jobs like that available. Many of the jobs less susceptible to outsourcing or automation are things like crafts and culture -- where it's much easier to work for yourself, not for someone else. We're also moving into the period when many people will work from home, a situation that gives an advantage to precisely the kind of people disadvantaged by the conventional job market. This means that, within the foreseeable future, tipping points will be reached that make today's sought-after features much harder to live with.

Cry me a river, bitches.