Comments on: If You Want More Diversity in Your Office, Test Yourself with This https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html Everything to make HR better Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:49:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: KD https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213619 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:49:01 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213619 > In general, the most politically intolerant Americans, according to the analysis, tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves.

Curious about what “whitER” is. These other variables, as presented, are continuous, but last time I checked, “white” is part of a categorical variable.

]]> By: grannybunny https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213595 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:17:22 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213595 In reply to Jenny Boxer.

Aren’t you engaging in a little bigotry yourself right now: automatically assuming in advance what straw man “conservatives” and “liberals” might do?

]]> By: Evil HR Lady https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213594 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:49:51 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213594 In reply to Gene.

We can play this game all day. My recommendation is that if you have friends or co-workers who believe these things, seek to understand where they are coming from.

I am not saying all points of view are equal, but I am saying that it’s generally worth it to consider other points of view and not automatically dismiss the people who hold them as stupid or evil.

You never have to agree with everyone, but you should understand where they are coming from.

(And if I wanted to sell to Q Anon people, you bet I’d want to know what they think and why.)

]]> By: Jenny Boxer https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213591 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:50:16 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213591 Conservatives don’t debate with liberals because liberals accuse conservatives of bigotry, sexism, intolerance, etc. If we disagree with anything on the left, they assume we’re racists.

]]> By: Gene https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213587 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:16:37 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213587 In reply to Evil HR Lady.

So, leave off science. Can you give me a coherent and well-supported argument supporting Q-Anon? Or that the moon landings were staged? Or that Elvis is a space alien who is still alive? Or FOX News is Fair and Balanced?

This post buys into the “All points of view are valid” mindset. All points of view are not valid, some are just batsh!t crazy.

]]> By: Evil HR Lady https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213586 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:37:16 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213586 In reply to Gene.

There’s a difference between debating an idea and debating science.

The earth is round is pretty settled. That vaccines work is also settled. But, you can certainly debate whether they should be mandatory.

]]> By: Evil HR Lady https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213585 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:35:49 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213585 In reply to Kathy.

Yes, that’s how I meant it!

]]> By: Gene https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213584 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:11:28 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213584 “If you can make a coherent and well-supported argument for the other side, then congratulations–you are open-minded and accepting. If you can’t, go back and start over again.”

Or the other side IS completely unhinged. Three examples just off the top of my head: Q-Anon, Flat Earthers, and Anti-vaxxers.

]]> By: Kathy https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213583 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:20:51 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213583 Agreed on the political arguments at work. But I took EHRL’s discussion of politics as just an example of a heated, polarized argument like the sort of arguments that happen at work about work matters. Whatever the subject, when an argument escalates, the business can accomplish more if people on both sides of the question can see a way to understand and appreciate the viewpoint of their opponents even if they don’t share it. Did I read that right?

]]> By: MariaRose https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/03/if-you-want-more-diversity-in-your-office-test-yourself-with-this.html#comment-213582 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:53:25 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5145#comment-213582 Wel said comment by Grannybunny— businesses need to stick to their functioning—which is making the business work. If the individuals who work or run the company have a specific affiliation for certain politicians, then they can use their personal money to support their choices but not the company’s.
My biggest argument with my union was how they spent the money put into the funds for the union, mainly because we, the individual workers, had no control over the way they spent money “supporting “ politicians who they deemed to be helpful. The reason I mention this has to do with the amount of the “donation”. Companies that use company money to influence politicians aren’t using their money so they really don’t care about the method used by the politicians, as spending someone else’s money is extremely easy because it doesn’t affect their personal lives financially.
I am going to give you an example of this —AOC, the new “star” of Congress, who claims she won her position by small donation not PAC donations, has been exposed as having several big secret PAC donators who pay her to get taxes raised to 70% of income, knowing full well that the top 10% earners will avoid this by the loopholes written in the law, paid for by her secret PAC donators. Why else would her mother suddenly move to Florida from New York unless she knows that her income is going to be overly taxed.
If you are a worker in a company that supports socialism like this, you will be paying the tax not the top positioned people whose income will be sheltered. Politics has no place in business.

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