Who cares about diversity?

It could be that the people do care about the values listed, but don't know an effective way to guarantee them, and that existing diversity statements are a stopgap measure until something better is figured out.

But no, let's jump directly to "Conclusion: By and large, they don’t care about diversity. They’re just lying, in a really transparent way, because they think it gives them a patina of legal legitimacy."

Or... perhaps don't ascribe to malice that which may be adequately explained by incompetence.

I certainly don't, at least not in the way that modern society seems to be pushing for it.

A year or two ago a high school was putting on a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and there was a loud minority of students complaining because a white girl was cast as Esmeralda. In the original book, Esmeralda is ethnically French, but Gypsies steal her as an infant and replace her with Quasimodo. Many years later, Esmeralda's mother sees her and rants at her, thinking she is one of the gypsies she hates for stealing her daughter. She hates her own daughter, her own flesh and blood, because of interethnic hatred. The implication of this, and the impact of people like the students complaining because a white girl was cast in the role, are left as an exercise to the reader.

Edit: News article about the high school production https://www.bet.com/article/mq8775/school-cancels-musical-af...

Going on a tangent I am tired of diversity theater at most companies. You know how I know you don't really care? I look at your C level (excluding Chief Diversity Officer) and you board.

Alternate perspective: it will be flagged down because HN's community has continually proven incapable of having discussions like this without it turning into a shouting match. It's already happening.

I'm just reloading this, it was flagged then dead 2 more times since I posted the above.