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	{{a\|design\|{{image\|Diversity\|jpg~~\|450px\|thumb\|center~~\|Great. A bunch of frigging Millenials.}}}}There is ''actual'' diversity — assembling teams of actually different people from different backgrounds, of different ages, genders, races, with varying cultural perspectives and who hold a diverse array of experience, expertise and opinion — and then there is [[diversity and inclusion]], a second-order derivative of that, which is currently the subject of an in-vogue land-grab by a particular faction of the [[human resources]] military-industrial complex. The latter, despite its name, is curiously homogenous in outlook and output and disarmingly intolerant of contrary opinion, being founded as it is on a political disposition rather than, specifically, an abstract aspiration to make an organisation more effective.		{{a\|design\|{{image\|Diversity\|jpg\|Great. A bunch of frigging Millenials.}}}}There is ''actual'' diversity — assembling teams of actually different people from different backgrounds, of different ages, genders, races, with varying cultural perspectives and who hold a diverse array of experience, expertise and opinion — and then there is [[diversity and inclusion]], a second-order derivative of that, which is currently the subject of an in-vogue land-grab by a particular faction of the [[human resources]] military-industrial complex. The latter, despite its name, is curiously homogenous in outlook and output and disarmingly intolerant of contrary opinion, being founded as it is on a political disposition rather than, specifically, an abstract aspiration to make an organisation more effective.

	It is also one of the sacred cows of the modern dialectic, so —other than to find mild amusement in its irony, we won’t have a lot to say about it — the [[JC]] picks his fair share of battles. That one is a bridge too far.		It is also one of the sacred cows of the modern dialectic, so —other than to find mild amusement in its irony, we won’t have a lot to say about it — the [[JC]] picks his fair share of battles. That one is a bridge too far.