Heather McGhee

And that means everyone in your society is able to come through the door and participate. It's like if you have a problem, right? You have a problem that you're sitting with and you have only one identity, one group of people with the same general set of background and assumptions and where they come from and the way they see the world. You can only see part of it, right?

And that means everyone in your society is able to come through the door and participate. It's like if you have a problem, right? You have a problem that you're sitting with and you have only one identity, one group of people with the same general set of background and assumptions and where they come from and the way they see the world. You can only see part of it, right?

There's this whole other part of it that someone who came from a different set of circumstances would be able to see and together understand You solve the hole, right? And that is what has been borne out. Literally more diverse juries remember more facts. More diverse teams come up with breakthroughs in problem solving faster.

There's this whole other part of it that someone who came from a different set of circumstances would be able to see and together understand You solve the hole, right? And that is what has been borne out. Literally more diverse juries remember more facts. More diverse teams come up with breakthroughs in problem solving faster.

More diversity in the classroom creates better educational outcomes, not just for the kids of color, but for the white kids too, right? We have reams and reams of research about this. And yet, this... Das ist die Formel, die ich denke, ist Amerikas Superkraft.

More diversity in the classroom creates better educational outcomes, not just for the kids of color, but for the white kids too, right? We have reams and reams of research about this. And yet, this... Das ist die Formel, die ich denke, ist Amerikas Superkraft.

Und die Idee, dass wir für das weiter optimieren können, die Arbeitsplätze weiter diversifizieren können, was übrigens mit über drei Viertel des amerikanischen Publikums populär ist, die Idee von Diversität in Arbeitsplätzen, es ist eigentlich common sense.

Und die Idee, dass wir für das weiter optimieren können, die Arbeitsplätze weiter diversifizieren können, was übrigens mit über drei Viertel des amerikanischen Publikums populär ist, die Idee von Diversität in Arbeitsplätzen, es ist eigentlich common sense.

I mean, this anti-diversity regime is not stopping with affirmative action in schools, which already the Supreme Court did away with. It's coming for the breastfeeding rooms in schools. your offices, for veterans hiring programs, for, you know, right? It's coming for all of the systems that make the world more inclusive and accommodating.

I mean, this anti-diversity regime is not stopping with affirmative action in schools, which already the Supreme Court did away with. It's coming for the breastfeeding rooms in schools. your offices, for veterans hiring programs, for, you know, right? It's coming for all of the systems that make the world more inclusive and accommodating.

And so often this is the way drainpool politics goes, right? It's like it's supposed to be an attack on the least of us, but in the end it's an attack on almost all of us.

And so often this is the way drainpool politics goes, right? It's like it's supposed to be an attack on the least of us, but in the end it's an attack on almost all of us.

So I want to say two things. One, Trump got 49 and some change percent of the people who voted, right? And 80, 90 million people didn't vote. And even of the people who voted for Trump, the idea of canceling diversity programs across the country is not overwhelmingly popular. So this is a faction using this as an excuse.

So I want to say two things. One, Trump got 49 and some change percent of the people who voted, right? And 80, 90 million people didn't vote. And even of the people who voted for Trump, the idea of canceling diversity programs across the country is not overwhelmingly popular. So this is a faction using this as an excuse.

Now, I'm not saying that there aren't way more people who are, you know, sort of susceptible to the anti-diversity arguments than I feel comfortable with.

Now, I'm not saying that there aren't way more people who are, you know, sort of susceptible to the anti-diversity arguments than I feel comfortable with.

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So I think too, so one, I want to just like put it in its place, right? We still have polling that shows that diversity and diversity programs are largely popular in the country still, right? But you had social movements, you know, the movement for Black Lives, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, right?

So I think too, so one, I want to just like put it in its place, right? We still have polling that shows that diversity and diversity programs are largely popular in the country still, right? But you had social movements, you know, the movement for Black Lives, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, right?