Can you be so focused on inclusivity that it results in more division and hate?

Thank you for bringing up such a touchy subject. I think this community in particular can have a real, civil, and respectful discussion versus other social media outlets. FB almost always degenerates into damaging flame throwing. Nobody will touch this subject with a ten foot pole in LinkedIn other than to gallup their moral high horse around. To answer your question, I am not sure it breeds "hate," but absolutely breeds resentment and paradoxically, divisiveness. (BTW: Keeping us divided is central to the two major parties ability to stay in power but I'll save that for another post). Back to my response: While no one can be against the idea of inclusiveness, its use is what drives further division. I think part of the problem is that the word "inclusive" is typically used to categorize people by race, gender, and political leanings, never by ideas, perspective, skill set, or background. It also seems like a one way street. Would anyone consider academia, the entertainment industry, or the news media, to say nothing of human resource detriments, inclusive of conservative white men? These are the more often than not the very people pushing inclusiveness - so yeah - I think it breeds resentment.

Absolutely.

I look at a team as "the ultimate tool for accomplishing any mission". As with any tool, you can use it improperly and still complete your task (i.e. using the handle of a screwdriver to pound in a nail). The problem with doing this is tha it isn't efficient, and you wear out or even break the tool.

A good leader should not be looking at the sex, color or ethnicity of his troops. He should be concentrating on each individual's strengths and weaknesses so he can apply those attributes in an efficient manner. Doing this fosters a highly motivated TEAM that generates the same knowledge of individual attributes during training, which increases morale.

Motivated, trained and "well oiled" team that has high morale can accomplish ANYTHING.

Forget all tha PC shit.

If you look at diversity and inclusivity as "we need to make sure that we have this type of people or this race involved" then yes, in the spirit of including everyone you are categorizing everyone into groups, whites, blacks, women, Asians Etc. In the military the only discrimination should be rank and role. You don't want an E1 included in a CO briefing.

If you look at us and say we need this percentage of a rank to include this minority you are saying that minority is different and not treating everyone equally.

Full metal jacket sums it up perfectly to me. "You are no longer white or black, YOU ARE GREEN"

Stop treating visual differences as differences and equality begins to form and the content of character becomes the defining trait of a person.