Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Learning how to get it right | Asif Sadiq | TEDxCroydon

Why the traditional ways of teaching Diversity. Equity and Inclusion does not work. Speaking at Royal Russell School Croydon Sadiq has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at adidas, The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police. He has been identified as one of the most influential Global D&I Leaders by Hive Learning and occupies a place on the CIPD’s Top 20 Power List. He is a winner of numerous awards including the highly commended Head of Diversity Award at the European Diversity Awards and was honoured with an MBE in 2017 by the Queen and granted the freedom of the City of London in 2016. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@tomjoad9447]

Hire and promote based on merit, not race or gender.. it's the only constitutional way

[@allenabategana570]

That also has its challenges. Have you read the tyranny of merit?

[@Kaymen1980]

​@@allenabategana570 Like what..?

[@kingkoi6542]

​@@allenabategana570you would have a problem with merit huh...

[@holdtheline4169]

​@@allenabategana570 So are we hiring on meret or identity now? One is discrimination the other is merit. Pick one.

[@JJo1792]

@@kingkoi6542 Man said that merit ALSO has challenges and you automatically assume that hes against it? Man so much for conversation.

[@Judgeitso]

I'm sure your kid's teacher was grateful for being told to spend hours with your little precious, while everyone else can teach themselves. Solipsistic doesn't begin to cover this mess.

[@CGageArts]

Right, if that's so important to you, then teach your child YOURSELF how to break things down in a way that can help their success.

[@ryeguy7941]

Strange how DEI excludes a group of people.

[@ParasTube]

Strange how a group of people want to actively not be included, special unicorns 🦄

[@holdtheline4169]

Gotta fight racism and discrimination with more racism and discrimination br0. The DEI way.

[@bliglum]

DEI is the 'Systemic Racism' we've all heard so much about.

[@billstephens396]

DEI is ALWAYS wrong and will be wrong for forever! Move away from DEI and to individual effort... Merit Based Only! DEI is for idiots who offer nothing to society!

[@billbillerton6122]

Leftist tripe.

[@ericelias2185]

Equity only if the right skin color, never mind merit

[@billstephens396]

DEI is ALWAYS wrong and will be wrong for forever! Move away from DEI and to individual effort... Merit Based Only! DEI is for idiots who offer nothing to society!

[@JTStonne]

Diversity and inclusion are not standards but adjectives. Equity is only possible in a Communist society. We are only given opportunity, not outcome. It takes effort to succeed.

[@e.l.5946]

No way. The elite who rule communist countries doesn’t create equality, equity neither unity. The elite is above the rest on the social cultural and economic ladder.

[@NSResponder]

It's not possible in a communist country, either. Look at how minorities are treated in China today.

[@gaulishrealist]

This is what you do when you have no talent.

[@jf8461]

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[@patrickmoran687]

Division. Exclusion. Intimidation.

[@MochiSenseiii]

Bigot

[@Kaymen1980]

Exactly

[@jfm562]

Exactly.

[@MyHumbleCafe]

If you feel this way it doesn't mean DEI is wrong as a concept, it just means that it isn't serving your demographic. Instead of writing it off with a clever phrase, explain how it excludes you. How you are intimidated. As a right-leaning minority, I've found myself frustrated not with the concept of dei, but how it's implementation from the left is biased toward leftist values. No one gets it right the first time. We need to work together, and it takes people that are willing to compromise.

[@jashonmason4689]

Must be white and not able to understand your bias I’ll pray for you

[@Simon-pl2zi]

My company introduced DEI as part of our ESG strategy early 2022. Within two years, we have managed to increased women in leadership roles to almost 40%, and there are just as many people of color now in the office as white. Ironically, at the same time, staff turnover has increased significantly and the anonymous staff surveys shows overall satisfaction is declining, and bullying has increased. I have seen the company go from being open and friendly to biased and far more segregated. Last year we introduced a new hiring mandate that excludes men, that's right, we can only hire women.

[@swordofmanticore1253]

DEI without ability is just a waste of money and time.

[@holdtheline4169]

Shocker.

[@holdtheline4169]

​@@swordofmanticore1253 DEI is a cancer.

[@lukewackler]

What’s the name of your company? Which city and state? I will let the equal opportunity commissioner know and I will file a complaint

[@mawuli1242]

what's DEI?

[@sayitasiseeit626]

Do you want your airline pilots, plane mechanics, repair/maintenance crews, bus & train drivers, repair & maintenance crews, nurses, doctors, school & university teachers, plumbers, electricians, anesthesiologists, ambulance staff, armed police, emergency medical helicopter pilots, soclicitors & lawyers, judges to all be chosen because of their ethnicity, skin colour, religion, disability, mental issues or.......because they are the best educated, best trained, best experienced, have best references & qualifications that are checked thoroughly ?

[@thisguy4505]

The Boeing 737 MAX seems to be faring well with these policies 👍👍

[@masscreationbroadcasts]

This felt... Really vague but I'm sure some examples of the way certain regions implemented it and what worked about it will come.

[@chrisreed3572]

DEI (anti-White, anti-Asian discrimination) is dead. This clown is out of a job and so are all the other grifters! Thank you Supreme Court!!

[@mvs3553]

I feel the same, just sounds super vague.

[@fareshajjar1208]

In other words, the nations of Africa, which almost no diversity need lots of and lots of white people to lead their society?

[@BonsaiCatTV]

UUUUHHHH... MICROAGREEESSIIONNN, SAVE MEEEE

[@user-ej3bw7zf6h]

I love diversity! I pray for world peace 🙏🏼 Yours faithfully A Palestinian

[@ricka2473]

If diversity and inclusion is so important for liberals, then why do they not encourage Haiti, Mexico, Japan, the Korea's, China, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Egypt, Norway, Sweden, Iraq, Sudan or Nigeria to diversity and be more inclusive in their populations?

[@agirl2094]

I think because of things like colonisation. The west colonised many communities of color and the consequences are still felt today so these communities have a right to have equal opportunity in the west. Who has Nigeria robbed & stolen from for them to have to diversify ?

[@ricka2473]

@@agirl2094 The will get it right once people quit looking at skin color and instead look at the content of each individuals character.

[@valmirmehmetaj5246]

@@agirl2094 Muslims are colonisers as well. Actually, they are worse, they assimilate or exterminate the local populations so ferociously, that in most cases no one even speaks their native tongues anymore. Also, it is not true that Western colonization has left those states behind. It has actually brought them medicine, civilization, the bureucracy, state building, western technology, food security and much more, that their populations have quadrupled in very few decades, and have stopped tribal warring. Western Civ has been a net positive for them. The reason they are poor and corrupt, has mostly to do with culture, not some western legacy. Kosovo has gone from abject poverty, oppression and almost tribal society, to the most democratic and safest countries in Balkan in 20 years, since its liberation. In 200 years or more, we will be just another rich EU country. What have they achieved in 200 years, except whine and blame the west, and receive enormous aid from the West? What do they want, to return to huts and savanas? Many countries that were colonized by the west are thriving today, and some are even better than the west. So its all about culture

[@billstephens396]

DEI is ALWAYS wrong and will be wrong for forever! Move away from DEI and to individual effort... Merit Based Only! DEI is for idiots who offer nothing to society!

[@jimmoynahan9910]

@@agirl2094 Nigeria...one of the most corrupt, thieving nations in the world...

[@brocknspectre1221]

DEI is big business $$$ The one thing it will always need to continue is more bigotry. It can’t afford to succeed.

[@CGageArts]

When he said how much was spent on DEI globally, I thought, wow what a waste of money."

[@sukiriya]

Seems like all corporate problems are created thanks to Primary and Secondary Education methodologies ?

[@Neutrois]

Everyone should be a good person and respect boundaries. 🌈

[@felixzayas8190]

$8 billion were wasted

[@gaulishrealist]

"How can I become something I can't see" This is so nauseatingly ridiculous. People generally don't have a picture of themselves as successful. It's your job to become successful.

[@billstephens396]

DEI is ALWAYS wrong and will be wrong for forever! Move away from DEI and to individual effort... Merit Based Only! DEI is for idiots who offer nothing to society!

[@CGageArts]

It's because he's looking at the wrong image

[@RealityCheck6969]

You should spend $100 billion on diversity training. :D 8 is not enough man!

[@trivialgravitas9581]

Hire a commisar to make your employees worry every second if they will be the next sacrifice to the cause.

[@bigpapi2658]

So your company practices racial discrimination? You openly violate Title Seven of the civil rights act!! You guys are wide open to lawsuits!!😂😂

[@DerekFolan]

Diversity is a style, but when it comes to power, who runs all these people, out in front. The speech also completely ignores any of the risks. In some ways having Diversity rules can be very limiting. For inclusion you might wonder what would a spy or a criminal try to include to a corporate or government organisation. Society is not that nice place, giving power and status away is not a super happy subject about sharing.

[@taylegacypeace-LADYSOUL]

I would like to speak with the city Manager.❤

[@ronnellmacklinJr]

Taking a course on HR and found out about the DEI conversation

[@bobbobbington3615]

I've been seeing the diversity and inclusion in Liberal cities, and it looks awfully violent.

[@bliglum]

All part of the plan

[@DavidIrthum]

I myself come from a cultural, ethnic,racial, and religious background. So, I am quite familiar with what DEI means.

[@JC-wl4cp]

dumbdown everything intellectual

[@kyosukearashi3523]

Shall be rearrange the abbreviation as DIE rather than DEI. These words are death sentence for employees who work hard in companies and also for companies themselves.

[@cccac3359]

It’s theoretical and academic

[@shawnwalsh6998]

EMC- Equity Merit Colorblindness

[@uberdonkey9721]

Let me illustrate what modern ideas of equity are like... I was an a relationship previously where my wife was physically abusive. One time I woke up with her trying to strangle me (she had mental health issues). Thankfully now I'm in a happy relationship, but do I have the right to try and strangle my wife now, out of equity? No. Why not? Because they are different people. Equity in modern thinking is trying to redress an injustice to one person, by creating an injustice for a completely different person. Discrimination can only be tackled at source, not by introducing discrimination to completely different people. It's external sinister the route that DEI is taking,.and I'm hoping it is made illegal because it is simply discrimination.

[@holdtheline4169]

Well said.

[@sterlingarcher2366]

It is simply described as "wolf in sheeps clothing". Frankly I find it fascinating that the very people that champion it in are the weakest type that end up on the end of the barrel.

[@CGageArts]

Correct, control is only within, not without

[@SamK9817]

This was a very interesting talk. I seek to try and learn how to make materials with regards to looking at diversity and inclusion more deeply more engaging. It is so important I feel in retaining staff for example in the workplace to be curious and show intent in being "consciously incompetent" rather than "unconsciously incompetent" at understanding what a typical day in the life of each other is like

[@chrisreed3572]

DEI is dead. The era of blatant anti-White, anti-Asian exclusion is *over* Thank you Supreme Court. Tell all your unqualified mouth breathers that this race grifter is out of a job.

[@jimmorris1424]

Oh look I will talk a bunch of nonsense and pretend I am smart.

[@jaidevinjarapu1805]

wow great analysis and thanks for sharing on DEI

[@chrisreed3572]

DEI is dead. The era of anti-White, anti-Asian bigotry is *OVER* If you aren’t qualified to attend an elite school, why would you expect to attend?

[@Ice-tc5vn]

It's all BS

[@markfcoble]

He's clearly perpetual victim class?

[@MsSnu]

That's the way it feels if you are the hammer.

[@user-ud5ng4zx8p]

I am not diverse. I am the same as every other human being.

[@noongar1234]

we really need to push back against this rubbish, Merit above all period!

[@thefiercegeneral]

hr always fail because they always veer away from common sense of basic recruitment based on competence, skill and respect

[@Privateryannnn]

Not that I’m not for the ideals of DEI but it practice it doesn’t make much sense. You cannot legislate inclusion. Competition is inherently exclusionary and is the basis of our species

[@donnalittle5453]

They don't need this that why they have affirmative action .

[@agirl2094]

We don’t even have that in the uk…

[@rossmelanson6999]

The opposite of diversity is unity, jus sayin…

[@Chill_Son]

Diversity consists of unity. Unless you have an issue with people who look different from you.

[@billbillerton6122]

@@Chill_Son Diversity is a scam that destroys cohesion.

[@joshandallo2170]

The opposite of diversity is conformity. Just saying...

[@nothingness863]

@@Chill_Son no, it doesn't

[@BonsaiCatTV]

@@Chill_Son I think liberals have issues with who dont think like them...

[@RK-jc8oe]

I’m a merit based HR mgr. If you would come to my company expecting a job based on your race sir skin color, save your gas …… or charge

[@christophercisneros8735]

Here for help on my college paper

[@Ice-tc5vn]

If this is your college paperntjen you're in the wrong course or you chose this course because you're a left wing wokie

[@nishapalagolla7267]

Great ! Very impressive..

[@MrPaul1872]

get it right by not doing it.

[@hurricane567]

When massaging people's...whatever takes precedence over producing product you can sell, you're going to have a bad time.

[@BBFCCO733]

As a woman who is not of color but of different cultural background I myself have also felt issues with being accepted and taken seriously from the majority. I have also experienced microaggressions with regards to my intelligence, communication style and been judged as less than. This manifests itself with condescending comments and brushing me off. I would like to see people like myself included in the conversation as well.

[@zanzikar7]

We are all children of GOD. Understanding this will set you free from the government propaganda. GOD unifies people and government divides people.

[@joebloe923]

You need to grow a backbone.

[@davidpennmiller354]

Maybe you should try to add more to the conversation. Maybe the problem is you, not your race.

[@holdtheline4169]

If you're not a minority, no one cares.

[@sterlingarcher2366]

The painting of something being "microagressions"...... is always attributed to those who have zero self awareness. Usually you can guess with good accuracy that they are unlikeable people that anyone in their right mind would not want to spend time around.

[@Chris-tn6vb]

Discrimination, Entitlement, and Indoctrination

[@AlextheLedgeAhom]

Always a pleasure to hear him speak and see the changes he implements.

[@chrisreed3572]

DEI is dead. Good riddance and thank you SC!

[@NicolaTexeira]

Such a brilliant talk. Will be sharing this with my colleagues :)

[@chrisreed3572]

DEI is dead. The era of blatant anti-White, anti-Asian exclusion is *over* Thank you Supreme Court. Share that this race grifter is out of a job.

[@crueljimi]

Umm…NO……………..

[@lolpol6563]

Interesting talk.. but he says himself he actually has no idea what being underprivileged is so don't think he's really the best person to be speaking on such a topic

[@holdtheline4169]

Unless you folks have been living in a hut in Zimbabwe, NONE of you have any right to speak.

[@MsSnu]

White women are the biggest benefactors of affirmative action.

[@andrewpain_speaker]

An ok talk, but there were a few generalisations within it, which I felt was a bit ironic given the subject matter. A quote from the talk at 8 min 40 seconds. "Our society is so divided. There is no middle left. You're either very far left or very far right ... and we don't speak to each other". Well, I'm middle left - most of my footy mates are middle left and in the middle ... and we definitely speak to each other in the pub, - frankly, it's astonishing that such a sweeping generalisation has been missed by whoever edited this talk in the final weeks of preparation!!

[@colinwhite5584]

8 billion on diversity training… great allocation on the Dems part

[@Sai-ns9ky]

Ofc a buslim guy would support it.

[@Ice-tc5vn]

I'm a Muslim guy and I don't support it. I lost out on a good job because the recruiter wanted an essay on DEI. DEI is doing more garm to the people it was brought to help.

[@holdtheline4169]

​@@Ice-tc5vn Sorry to hear this dude. These folks are a cult and completely misconstrued and diminished everything MLK faught for.

[@shawnmugee]

Get rid of DEI....

[@user-ew8lt6yi2i]

let they\them\it blablabla and always vote with your wallet. see how this will end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jaredlallatin5140]

This nonsense will destroy humanity

[@galaticcedar7076]

The amount of right- I mean “anti-woke” people here are so insane that it makes me laugh ngl

[@SDWinLA]

Face it: DEI stands for Dead End Initiative

[@715rko]

👋👋👋

[@wiliamhendershot5229]

[@TopGun_-]

DEI = Didn’t Earn It

[@DarthQueefious]

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