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Just a thought but Most of the time whenever I see the words inclusion and diversity The words "all white people are racist" seem to follow Along with "no you can't say that that's racist" I'm just weary of censorship

Diversity of ideas is more important. Meritocracy is more important than identity politics.

True diversity is not in color, but in everything a person is (thought, personality, skill, etc.). In other words, diversity is the embracing of the individual, REGARDLESS of their skin color. Because one white man on the street may have more "black culture" knowledge than some other black man on the street. Just like how some Hispanic lady can be fluent in Chinese, or a Korean man could rap better than Kanye. You never know, until you get to know someone, because everyone is different. And because everyone is different and everyone has equal value as a human being (the only race that all people are), then we must highlight merit and character of a person over one's appearances if we truly want to be inclusive and responsible as neighbors in this both humongous yet small world.

I hate the conscious bias of this woman.

Propaganda

Or maybe don't judge anyone based on their skin color. I know, crazy thought but hiring or not hiring someone based on the color of their skin are both just as bad in my eyes. People of color are fully capable of achieving success and earning their place in a career. "Diversity" and "inclusion" should happen naturally based on the demographics of the surrounding region.

I can't listen to people who haven't done any actual work in their entire lives

I thought America was lost forever, but the comments here give me hope.

TAKE NOTICE HOW MANY LIKES AND HOW MANY DISLIKES. WOKE IS OLD STUFF...ENOUGH , AND I AM OUT OF THIS CHANNEL .

You don't have to think of making an artificial diversity - there is nothing good in that. Think about performance, and take people, who perform the best.

Remember the good old days when the TED talks were interesting

Skin color, gender, national origin does not matter. Excellence matters. Qualifications matter. Skill matters. This is just bigotry pretending to be open-mindedness.

By the thumbs up to the thumbs-down ratio, everybody else believes, *"This is BS too"*

So is this all because of the 'racism' of non customers being treated as non customers?

TED uses to be such a great channel, and now they are promoting this woke rubbish.

nah

Foster effort, individual effort and excellence

Why don’t you hire people based off their skills and abilities instead of a quota system? You shouldn’t force women and minorities into positions that they may not have the requisite training or skills for. If you can find women and minorities that have the skills, than cool USE THEM, but don’t force out other people just to be PC.

Please. Stop.

In short, do not judge people based on their skin color. Give them a job based on their skin color.

i used to look forward to ted. now it's pure racism

What TED promises: "The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances...where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives" What TED actually gives: "Just a basic boring interview, no real depth or insight, seasoned with heavy bias and agenda"

Foster excellence not diversity!

I am tired of these people and their endless problem. I am tired to watch them. Unsubscribed.

Look at the Boeing share price for the result of true diversity and inclusion at work.

Actual diversity of opinion is hardly ever included and it's the only real aspect of diversity that matters; people of all races can and do succeed in the West, with certain cultural differences having an effect of course. Different characters, personalities and political viewpoints are much less encouraged though, thereby there isn't the diversity that supposedly diversity promoters preach of.

She had a conversation with her work colleagues. What an novel strategy... This pair should get into politics because they seem to talk a lot while saying nothing....

Translation: don’t spend your money buying guns, buy stocks. I buy both.

Equality of outcome is such a backwards idea.

my next ted talk "how are we focusing on diversity instead of true skills"

Here’s an idea. Employ the best best people- maybe better coffee..?

"It's about having unstructured conversations with minorities throughout the workday." "What about people who say, let's get back to work?" "I just want to say how disgusted I am about this comment!"

If you clicked *"I dislike this"* i.e. thumbs down on this TED talk, but are not racist give me a thumbs up.

Yeah don’t want to see this zzzz

Meh

It's fun to watch the slow degradation of Ted talks

I'd rather be hired for my talent than my skin color. That way, if there is a global health crisis and people have to be evaluated for lay-offs I will be "the guy who's never passed an outage to the next watch-team in over 9 years," instead of being "he's the black guy."

The one with the best skills gets the job, period. Giving people the job because of their color is just as dumb as not giving them the job because of their color. You just went 180° to the other extreme of stupidity and the problem remains. And if your community is mainly one shade of human skin that's fine, if it's 50/50 that's fine and if it's a perfect combination of every color imaginable that's fine too as long as it wasn't artificially created to meet a quota. The two on this video are the ones giving value to people according to their skin.

Ted Marx

Why do you need Diversity Hire the person who is the most competent for a job

Garbage talk. Another woke wonder

Diversity of color and ethnicities should be a byproduct, not the target. Skills, knowledge and work ethic matter much more than the color of your skin.

Why don't companies focus on ways to raise the standard of living in the communities they operate in? Why don't large fast food restaurants pay their employees a living wage? Why don't massive retail chains offer their employees affordable health insurance? I bet that these employees would appreciate a conversation addressing some real issues as opposed to being lectured about race.

Haha, great comments!

Hey what about diversity of thoughts!? No? No?! Just skin colour ?!

She's not wrong about making sure people get their say in, but I don't see any reason anyone deserves more of a voice or a prioritized voice over anyone else. Everyone gets a say, but not everyone is correct.

Can we please extinguish this idiotic, divisive theory once and for all? The children have had their fun but it's time to be adults again.

This woman is about to be the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In the 66 year history of the Fortune 500 this has never been done. These comments confuse me... I don't understand the critical backlash.

I could hire an irishman, a german, a russian and a spaniad, and these people wouldn't call it diverse.

Come on TED, just come out and do a video on Critical Race Theory. Also this woman saying 'Latinx' when only 2% of Latinos and Latinas recognise themselves as that term, while a vast majority hate it is just disgusting that she would dare to talk about inclusion while also using that term.

The most competent person should be the decision maker for any position. I don’t care what they look like. Equality of outcome is good for no one.

Diversity and inclusion does not equate to accusing an entire group of people of being racist just because of their race. I want no part of people who think that way because that is the racism.

Man, the dislike/Like ratio looks already great :D

The like to dislike ratio sums this way of thinking up

Can these kind of people talk about things that realy matter?

Yuk

This does not belong on Ted Talks! This is perhaps news or promotional media, and I enjoyed listening, but...not a Ted Talk.

I will be for diversity and inclusion when it includes me...

Love the transparency that Starbucks is cultivating.

How about work harder and quit blaming everyone’s skin

Diversity and inclusion in the corporate workplace. Lol, all contradictions. The ratio on this stuff is hilarious.

This is the best satire I have watched in many years

Tool.

Hahah twice as many thumbs down . Screw diversity and equity . Equality and character are what America is about

bye bye ted.

This not only fuels racism, it creates even more division between everybody. Brilliant.

The way she treat this argument is sooo american that does not apply to the rest of the world.

I want to come on a stage and talk about antiwhite racism

What a great eye opening talk. I was so wrong about focusing on values und character. Now i know the most important thing to focus on is race. Im also glad that they skip their scientific aproach Merry xmas and a great new year

The focus of business is the guest and profit.

How to foster true diversity and inclusion at work without lowering your standards? Where's that video?

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr.

After listening to this talk/interview I appreciate the bravery and truth in this conversation. I can relate because I have experience exactly what she’s explaining. It may be difficult to understand if you have not experienced racism and bigotry in America. Americans like to present themselves as something they are not.

TED talks used to be about scientific researchers and interesting break throughs and the state of the art. Nowadays its just one big pile of race relations, politics and gender issues. Horrible and sad.

TED keeps posting woke stuff, we keep destroying it with dislikes... they'll realize what's happening eventually. Bring back real intelectuals!!!

Easy , you don't!

Here's how you do it. Hire for people's motivations and abilities. And those that can be trained. Also another thing: just don't be racist, not hard

You could always just hire because you think that person would be good for the job. Hiring someone based on race is a one way ticket to making everyone angry. Nobody gets paid enough to give a damn about skin color. We just want work to get done, how and when it needs to be done. If someone is genuinely being racist, punish them. You can make as many "inclusion" programs and what not as you want, but they will never work. You can't act like everyone is racist and somehow expect that will fix the very few that actually are racist. You work, I work, We work. We are coworkers, we talk, maybe we even joke and then we go home and forget that eachother exist.

Didnt finish watching the video because i got the feeling it was way to biased but the statue in the back of the lady looks way to much like that cursed image of calfreezy

I find it extremely hypocritical that the same people that promote diversity and inclusion also support organizations that only accept black people.

Just give and take

What are they talking about? What conversations? What do they mean by diversity? Is there concrete goal?

Unity in Diversity

The market is the way it is because quality and results determine who is employed, not your race. There still are a massive amount of minorities in colonies

Last red modern day talk I watch. Done.

Bring Sam Hyde back on TED

You know it's gonna be good when there are 2x more dislikes than likes.

The USA are the only country that have such a ridiculous problem with inclusion and diversity. Other countries had laws against discrimination for years. Please don't spill your opinions over your countries borders.

Great

I can tell people haven't even watched the video, because the entire video talks about letting people of color feel more welcome at work through group conversations, whereas everyone here is decrying supposedly racist hiring policies. Letting people feel welcome at work should be something everyone welcomes, but I guess some people don't feel that way. What everyone should agree on is that we should work to eliminate hostile work environments that women and people of color face due to bigotry, which force them to either leave well-paying jobs, or pay the psychological price of enduring an environment where people don't take you seriously, they make rude comments to you, and they harass you every single day. And by the way, consciously hiring a diverse workforce isn't a bad thing. Some people think that the best people are already being hired, they believe that trying not to pass over qualified talent from people of color is just a way for minorities to get an unfair advantage. It doesn't work that way, though. There's already a pool of equally qualified people, but currently white people tend to be chosen whenever all other qualifications are equal. The goal is to not do that. And feel free to get mad about quotas, but they're what happen when attempts to hire by merit fail, and they try to hire a diverse, qualified workforce according to the racial makeup of their location manually rather than naturally. It's crude, but sometimes it happens.

I'm watching this video from bangladesh, 2020

Why¿ Why they so stupid? Dang. Where’s Jim Jones? Oh he’s over at the water cooler agin🤦🏻‍♀️ He’s done put something in these women’s drinks. Killing brain cells that seem to target common sense. 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

Colorblindness reactivism intensifies in these comments...

Here is a thought how about choosing on merit for the best person for the job and leaving diversity and inclusion to the racists and bigots trying to make money from it. No one deserves a particular job as a right. You have to earn it.

One consciousness experiences various perspectives of reality.

TED has become garbage.

Making 'special' for people with a disability more steps to do in isolation while they are learning a new skill instead of allowing people a bit more time to learn the steps of a new routine fully accepted as already being part of a team or a class until it becomes another skill in their skill set too is NOT how to be inclusive. Instead it is using a person with a disability to be only a mascot being used as only another way of advertising the company as being one that has the good value of being charitable to people with disabilities.

I remember Diversity classes back in the day with Proff Blevins

Sad to see people so devoted to their hatred