[dragonwriter]

> Indifference is the purest form of inclusiveness.

No, it's not. Inclusiveness is active, indifference is passive.

They may be compatible when the status quo is already ideal, but not otherwise.

> IMHO employers should not be asking people their gender, age, race, sexual preference even if the information is voluntary because ultimately they should not care what the answers are. Employers should only care that everyone gets a fair and equal opportunity to progress within the company and enjoys a safe and inclusive work environment.

Not gathering information which can be analyzed to identify potential problems with that that may be non-obvious is incompatible with being meaningfully concerned with it.

[sintaxi]

"Active inclusiveness" sounds like discrimination to me. People should be passive about race, gender, and sexuality. Especially in the workplace.

[dragonwriter]

> "Active inclusiveness" sounds like discrimination to me.

No, active inclusiveness is taking action to identify and eliminate barriers to inclusion, such as policies that have an unintended effect of biasing recruiting, hiring, retention, etc., including such things as adopting a convenient funnel or filter that happens to incorporate bias.

> People should be passive about race, gender, and sexuality.

Passivity preserves pre-existing structural biases, so, yes, people should be passive, if—but only if—they wish to do that.