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.

You are politically incorrect just for asking that question. How does that make you feel? ...and there is the answer to your question

What bothers me most is the tendency to call everyone that disagrees a hater.

I don't think every life style is right, but there are not many people I hate.

i live in the usa born there ,my familly came from europe itally, germany, poliand, and else ware, they leaned the langauge and survived, and served this country ww2, korea, vietnam, desert storm and oif/oef, my perception is that my people came to this country for freedom and did what it took to do it, i'm proud of my heritage but i'm american, not polish american, not itallian american, american period, we have a flag, we have a national anthem, respect that or go back to where ever you came from, in my 55 years of life i have seen so many struggles, womens rights, black rights, gay rights and applaud all the victories now its time to be americans and win back our rights as a country until then there will be a division, your american or not

Political Correctnes is the Opium of the masses, IT IS Destroying our country and delivered BY the progressive government and its media throlls

There is a great deal of intolerance in PC.

This may be a bit small scale to what you are posing Sir, but a few years ago I had a situation which describes this almost to a "t". In our barracks in Germany we ended up with a younger Private with a room to himself due to a PCS. When we saw we had an incoming Private, we immediately allocated that Soldier that billet. There are other rooms with only one occupant but as this was the most junior of those Soldiers it only made sense to allocate that Soldier a roommate first. It all changed when our new Private actually arrived... You see, the junior Private with the room to himself happened to be Black. The new Private also happened to be Black. Our First Sergeant said we could not room these two Soldiers together because of that fact alone and how it would appear. So we placed this brand new Private in a room with a senior Specialist who, under the circumstances would normally have his own room in this situation and left the other Private in a room to himself. When you make a plan and then change that plan based solely on the factor of race once you learn it. You are inherently practicing discrimination...

To a extent yes absoloutely. When every good "feel good" story has to be publicized. Back to the "everyone gets a ribbon" concept.