Inclusion Starts With...

Isn't Accenture one of the companies under fire in the Facebook moderation thread? That is, this type of messaging would be comforting if you can be removed from the problems but when messaging of diversity gets smushed in with workplace exploitation, the sheen on diversity messaging is going to lose its shine.

Jason said:

No idea about Facebook - I avoid social media outlets like that purposefully. Not sure what you mean about diversity getting smushed in with workplace exploitation. If anything, my take on the videos was that it takes the ability to think outside your own gender, race, orientation, and to accept any lifestyle as acceptable. How can that be a bad thing?

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When the messenger is someone who is involved with making intolerable working conditions, the messaging seems to act as propaganda to help justify the displacement of workers for more "warm bodies" if they dare try to complain. The messaging doesn't say we are inclusive, but that you will be replaced. That's why it matters.

Yeah, Accenture's mentioned in two articles the author's written on this topic. The abuses are pretty detailed in both and apparently workers get very little, if any support, from TPTB. What makes the message in the videos even harder to swallow is how Facebook is on a bent to "jail" everybody who complains about sexual harassment, racism, or other personal attacks these days; a trans friend was accused of "bullying" when they went to the mods and complained about harassing and inappropriate posts from somebody, so they got "jailed" for three days). I understand these videos aren't produced by/for Facebook, but after seeing some of the shit my friends have gone through to get out of "jail" or have posts reinstated, I don't buy the "shiny happy people" message. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've flagged something that would get banned on network TV or give a movie a soft "R" rating as inappropriate and have gotten the standard Respond-O-Bot 9000™ response "you're right! That is inappropriate but it doesn't violate our community standards!" Yet they're quick to ban somebody for three days because his CGI comic shows two guys without their shirts because NIPPLES. Hell, somebody's quick on trigger to remove photos of women showing their mastectomy scar tattoos because NIPPLES. Or something.

Accenture are hypocrites, if we're to remain polite.

Inclusion starts with the individual, IMO: the individual needs to have the mindset and belief that everyone is worthy of inclusion, not just those the individual has learned to like vs. hate.

Of course, for the individual, it's easier to (cherry) pick who he/she/they associate with and get away with doing so. OTOH, corporations started as individuals who expanded their operations so much that they became companies.