[massinstall]

Optically maybe, if that’s what you’re aiming for. Just assuming that the “group of white men” are “all the same” is not very deep. The truth is that they’re all individuals with individual stories strangers who judge them by their looks know nothing about. It used to be understood as a good thing to not judge people based on their gender or skin color, including the nowadays declared “evil” white men.

[nonethewiser]

DIE initiatives achieve extremely poor diversity of beliefs. The type of diversity that matters. It is outright hostile to it.

[ParetoOptimal]

> Optically maybe, if that’s what you’re aiming for. Just assuming that the “group of white men” are “all the same” is not very deep.

Not just optically. Even slightly different cultures can result in novel ways of thinking or world views that bring something new.

[randomdata]

That's what the parent is saying. The aforementioned black woman may have more in common with the white men on the team than other white men. If you were striving for true diversity, it is quite possible that yet another white man with a different background would provide the greatest diversity, but if you are only optimizing for optical diversity then those considerations go out the window.

[slt2021]

right words, but it is not what's happening in real world in hiring