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Discussion on: Diversity vs Inclusivity: Understanding the Difference

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Vincent Dedo

I'm more in favour of inclusivity than diversity, as that term has been tainted for me. In my last job, the CEO was keen on pushing this diversity image to the point where people got sick of it. After things fell apart, one of the things I heard was that HR was telling recruiters to only put forward female developers. I want diversity to be a good word, but things like this make me dislike it.

For me inclusivity is "can you do your job" and "are you a good person", beyond that I just don't care. I don't want more things to factor into it and I don't want my traits to be used to increase "diversity". I'm not sure my post has a point, I just wanted to share my opinion (which I don't see that much elsewhere).