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Having talks on academic subjects is fine. Companies should do more of that. The issue is that corporate diversity discussions happen with all the education and nuance appropriate to elementary schoolers.

Because most of the people in these roles aren't actually well-educated in 'best practices', you get stuff like mandatory non-anonymized surveys that ask whether people are trans and send the results to managers, or slideshows talking about minority representation that omit Asians, Hispanics, and other 'common' groups.