Excellent post! Like you, there are few things I hate and one of them is the use of the word diversity and the divisiveness it serves.

Let me give you an example of what I'm so tired of hearing. We hear weekly that the Tech companies in the US are not diverse enough. Because of this drum beating by the media, they are now at the point of even reporting out their level of diversity. Why? It's beyond me. If I have a company, I don't give a damn if I hire a women or a man, what their age is, if they are Asian, Mexican or Russian. If they are tall or short, fat or skinny. As a company I should care about one thing: who can best serve the company in the position I'm trying to fill such that it leads to the company's success.

To show how ridiculous this is, imagine the media pushes their diversity garbage onto professional basketball or football. Are they diverse. Absolutely not. There are an incredible number of African American who are exceptional athletes. For the most part, professional sports draft those with the best skills and size for the various team positions. Then those players are always competing for playing time. What if we apply diversity to professional sports and mandate sports must have 25% African Americans, 25% Asians, 25% White Caucasians and 25% Hispanics. What would that do for the professional sports. It would destroy it. You would loose the level of competitiveness that exists today.

The other issue I have is sometimes the issue of a lack of diversity is simply a pipeline issue (as I recently read in an MIT Technology Review article). For instance, I have an advanced degree in mechanical engineering. Truth is, you are lucking to get women in engineering programs. The school I went to had an 8:1 ratio of men to women. If having more women engineers is desirable (I'd love to see more) then do something about our educational system and expose girls in grade school to the possibilities.