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by monocasa 1923 days ago
> The diversity you're talking about uses the definition everyone is familiar with from English.

> The diversity Black Lives Matter is talking about is a technical term with the definition coming from Critical Race Theory, which defines whites as the least diverse categorically due to historically injustices against BIPOC folx.

Can you provide a citation for that from a CRT source, not a political opponent to CRT?

> > The idea of focusing diversity isn't at odds with focusing on competence

> It is explicitly such, as stated by the movement you defend.

I think you're misunderstanding the major points of Ehmke and others. It's not that we should give up on competency being a driving factor, but instead that the set of organizational tools grouped together as "meritocracy" don't actually make competency the final end result because of the biases those tools impart. "Not a great culture fit" and all that.