Why is "diversity" automatically seen as being a "good thing"?

@basilfawlty89 I didn't say that! Geez, why do so many people have comprehension issues? 😖

@Pambie no, you having writing issues. What diversity are you whining about then?

@Pambie Said the woman who literally thinks neurodiversity is some kind of weird sinister agenda. Do they not have dictionaries on your planet?

@basilfawlty89 I'm not "whining" either. All I did was ask a question!

@basilfawlty89 Apparently. I have no clue what she's going on about.

@LordShadowfire I didn't say that either. So many people here apparently can't read simple English.

@basilfawlty89
Diversity in general, as a concept!

@Pambie okay, so what's about it?

Should people of different cultures, races and creeds not have the same opportunities? Especially if thet were previously disadvantaged due to discrimination?

@LordShadowfire Yes, I can delete people's responses if they're, for example, nasty. Got a problem with that?

@basilfawlty89 What's it about? Oh... my... GOD!
You cannot really be THIS dense!
AS - A - GENERAL - CONCEPT. Do you understand these words? Diversity in general, as an idea. It is generally automatically assumed to be good. Why? THAT is all I'm asking!

@basilfawlty89 I think at this point we have to assume that @Pambie is living in some weird parallel universe to ours.

@LordShadowfire People like you just want to argue. My question is benign, there are no "hidden meanings", it's extremely straightforward. How could you possibly not understand what I'm asking here?

@Pambie Because it's based on a false premise.

@LordShadowfire It's not based on any "premise", it's just a question.

@Pambie Based on false information. You are falsely claiming that all diversity, including neurodiversity, is considered a good thing. That is a lie.

@LordShadowfire Well it is. Are you now saying that neurodiversity is not a "good thing", because if you are, I agree.
I made no false claims. I just asked a question, the question being. "Why is diversity automatically seen as being a good thing?"
Now whether or not you yourself see it this way is another matter, but many, many people do just assume that it must be good, because of... reasons. Who knows? They certainly don't.

@Pambie You seem to only see neurodiversity as a cognitive deficit. But I guarantee you that all those scientists portrayed in the Oppenheimer movie are neurodiverse compared to average folks.

It doesn't mean they're on any spectrum or anything; just that their brains don't approach math the way 'average' brains do. Go to any university math or physics dept. The scientists there don't approach math the way 'average' brains do. Hence they are neurodiverse.

There was a time when such departments didn't allow Jewish people to study at them. It took diversity initiatives to allow Oppenheimer and Bethe and Rabi and Teller and von Neumann and others to achieve their potential.

And, when Hitler & Mussolini introduced their anti-DEI initiatives and threw out all the Jewish scientists, these DEI refugees built atomic reactors and the A-bomb.

@Pambie And again, your question is based on a lie. Cultural diversity is seen as a good thing. Genetic diversity in general is seen as a good thing. But the concept of diversity depends on what sort of diversity. Neurodiversity includes the autistic spectrum and the ADHD spectrum, which some would argue are part of the same spectrum.

@ElwoodBlues Now that is interesting. I had only heard the term neurodiversity used to refer to the aforementioned spectrums. But you're right, people like Oppenheimer and Einstein were definitely neurodiverse.