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Why Being Inclusive Won’t Cut It Anymore
It’s like inviting someone to your doorstep; you need to also feed them!
Many companies have taken serious steps in the last 4 years to be more inclusive; be it women-inclusive for the sake of #MeToo, LatinX for the continuous clashes and the mayhem that was created by building the #SeperationWall, to Black Lives that always mattered but mattered the most when a precious soul was murdered brutally, the name #GeorgeFloyd became anonymous to injustice. Exactly 8 minutes and 46 seconds became now the record time you need to transfer from being a human being into an animal.
in each one of those cases, you will see a pattern of two main points:
1.” The squeaky wheel gets the oil”: in each of the cases when someone became more ‘aware’ of the injustice cast on a certain minority or ethnicity, there was always a voice that started the whole scene; a voice that made others ashamed of their silence, and urged them to rebel. The silenced voices are not served- not here and not yet, anyway.
2.It was hype: Yes, some people had their heart in the right place, but for the majority, answering the call for more inclusive practices online & in the workforce comes to answer the hype that spreading the society: “Our brand shall ride that wave, or our image is doomed, so…
