Diversity & Inclusion as it is is a fallacy

First and foremost, I support diversity, but I believe the term often accompanies what I take to be is an outright denial of racial hostility and discrimination.

When we speak about diversity its the way of legitimisation of the actions of systems that are consisted in illegitimacy and based on discriminatory practice. By using the word we assume we are inviting people to be included.

What often happens is this peace mill reform denies critical thinking to ponder how this system was created in the first place, how a homogenous population overwhelming occupying positions of powers in almost all industries and field.

So in effect, we are not looking at the cultivation of empathy for wrongdoings but rather a certain type of power, the power to outline who is to be included and the rate at which diversification occurs & the power to define the meaning of diversity. 

In this way, the homogeneous demographic we mentioned earlier still control and maintain access and what kinds of difference counts as diverse, so this is why D&I initiatives usually don’t lead to any effective change.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva created a construct called white habitus. He defines “white habitus” as a “radicalised, uninterrupted socialisation process that conditions and creates whites’ racial tastes, perceptions, feelings, and emotions and their views on racial matters. The most pronounced effect is that it cultivated a notion of group belonging, a culture of white solidarity & negative views on non-whites. In these spaced whites become the norm and any deviation becomes unnatural and problematic so due to white habitus racially homogenous demographics get to decide which ideas come in, which ideas they view to be threatening, which ideas fundamentally the core of that group feel they are or what they wish to be. So diversification reifies the homogeneity so it is preserved, rather than interrupted.

Blackness is seen as something outside, representing something dangerous, the antithesis of whiteness based on historically ideologies dating to back to colonisation that have now become contingent to current ideologies. If we are to be serious about diversity we need a schematic rapture, we have to admit that history & ideologies we hold so dearly are also the engines driving the exclusion. To go as far as to say there is a falsity in the notion that Europe has created universal ideas in the problem of the human, but rather Europeans created theories to talk about the problems Europeans

So this requires an examination of ideologies. We must challenge themes that have fundamentally challenged the way we articulate certain subjects. Fanon says societies and its colonial power create entities ideologies to sustain their civilisation and way of life. We need to cultivate the ability to study things as they are not as we wish them to be