Financial Times

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• Provided a "Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit" document to its employees.
• The only way to make progress is when everyone takes on the responsibility of diversity and inclusion change agents.
• Employees have a duty to progress towards a more equitable World.
• Focusing on diversity and inclusion will create a positive impact on culture, products and communities.
• Promoting diversity and inclusion will boost profitability, relevance and sales.
• Employees should be asking what peoples gender identity is and whether that has changed since their birth.
• An ally's value is determined by their intended beneficiaries, not by the individual. You cannot call yourself an ally without the intended beneficiaries recognising you as one.
• Employees should become collaborators, accomplices, and co-conspirators who fight injustice and promote equity in the workplace through supportive personal relationships and public acts of sponsorship and advocacy.
• Employees should interrupt and educate and initiate an organised response.
• Employees have a naivety bias if they believe in object reality.
• A colour-blind attitude towards racism will cause early deaths in black people, and instead we should state and awesome black people.
• Calling grandma a bigot at the Christmas table is a desirable outcome.
• Calling a black people articulate is a microagression.
• Dismissing ones lived experience is racist regardless of intention.
• Microaggressions are like mosquito bites, where the victim may then shoot mosquitos who carry diseases.
• Acknowledging biological realities is aggressive.
• Made staff perform "privilege walks" where people would score points on their perceived victim status.
• Nobody in a majority can be discriminated against.
• Staff must respect everyone's self-identification.
• In order to create an open space of inclusive conversations, staff should always ask for pronouns at the start of every meeting and introduce themselves with their own pronouns.
• Misgendering people can risk someone's safety.
• Wearing a sombrero at a fancy dress party requires an apology for cultural appropriation.
• Chief foreign affairs commentator, Gideon Rachman, says mass immigration is a sign of a healthy and dynamic society.

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Gideon Rachman