so oblivious to how unsustainable their hiring, management, funding, & general organizational practices are. When a system is built on the exclusion of others, that dependency only gets worse over time as homogeneity & infighting cannibalize a structure. This is because...(2/11)
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these structures mask the mass exclusion of the majority of people by allowing semi-privilege for those adjacent to the dominant group, i.e. wealthy white people appeasing middle/working class white people to ensure they don’t demand sustainable fixes that would require...(3/11)
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true inclusive practices, true transparency, & (worst of all) true accountability that might reveal that those in power aren’t as deserving as they lead the rest of us to believe. As time goes on, the ability to blame marginalized voices for increasingly obvious...(4/11)
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existing structural failings diminishes, & the calls for “diversity” become acceptable because the status quo can’t survive without changing, but only just enough to keep the existing power balance afloat. Let’s get to the fun part. So diverse people are introduced, &...(5/11)
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those people are very aware of how much they have to pay to participate. They start collecting data on how & why that is, analyzing policy, (if they’re a real one) advocating for additional voices different from their own, looking at $$$, etc. etc., & this all leads them...(6/11)
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to specific recommendations for true, structural fixes that require the obvious: the power needs to be shifted/redistributed with improved required credentials for leadership. However, as they were doing all this work, their peers, who are part of the dominant group, had...(7/11)
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assumed this was all in the sole interest of the minority. It had never occurred to them that the problems & complaints they’d always had were the result of the very concrete problems pointed out by this diverse voice because to admit that would mean that they...(8/11)
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were part of an oppressive structure, benefitted from it, & were complicit. This means that power won’t just shift from the top, but from them as well. And, well, that just can’t be true. It’s obviously all ludicrous. This diversity work is just soft science & identity...(9/11)
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politics. So, the diversity contingent goes & attempts to make the changes it knows needs to be made to make the thing it also loves/believes in sustainable & their peers go “that’s tangential to what we do, we’re not political & you don’t have the skill set for...(10/11)
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this. We’re going to create a petition to bring in someone who is actually qualified to fix our problems by handling them the way we always have.” Fin. (11/11)
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