A personal anecdote relevant to this point: at a previous temp job, I was responsible for helping to organise the interviews to find my eventual full-time replacement, and one of the interview questions was about the candidate's experiences with diversity. (brief thread)https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1084843917181370368 …
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When I had this realisation at the time, I expressed it to my (white, straight) manager in the context of how diverse the candidates had been. She looked briefly appalled, and noted that they'd hired one of the only two white, native English speakers.
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This isn't to say the person they hired wasn't competent - I wasn't privy to the interviews themselves, so I can't speak to that aspect of things. I also think it's important that my manager acknowledged the problem once I pointed it out, however belatedly.
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But, yeah: we need to collectively rethink those 'commitment to diversity' questions, because in so many contexts, they're premised on diversity as something the candidate should *encourage* but not *possess*, which is antithetical to the desired outcome. FIN
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