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If the chief benefit to an organisation of diversity is ''difference'' — you know, of opinion; borne of the divergent cultural and sexual perspectives of your staff<ref>And — who knows? — maybe even their varied professional experiences and background.</ref> — then you might be forgiven for expecting diversity to arrive arm-in-arm with a heightened sense of conflict, grit, chippiness — an air of [[the military school of life]], so to say. But this seems not the brand of diversity our millennial wunderkinds, bunkered in their safe spaces, are selling.
If the chief benefit to an organisation of diversity is ''difference'' — you know, of opinion; borne of the divergent cultural and sexual perspectives of your staff<ref>And — who knows? — maybe even their varied professional experiences and background.</ref> — then you might be forgiven for expecting diversity to arrive arm-in-arm with a heightened sense of conflict, grit, chippiness — an air of [[the military school of life]], so to say. But this seems not the brand of diversity our millennial wunderkinds, bunkered in their safe spaces, are selling.
The irony is that the [[JC]] — a fellow who prides finds himself out forming diverse opinions for the sheer devil of it — find himself choosing his words even more carefully than normal, for fear of being cancelled, or whatever these youngsters do to old fogies these days, who bring offence to the neurotic tweenies.


===Homogeneity risks===
===Homogeneity risks===