Diversity training doesn’t work, stereotypes and those organic food snobs…

… Today’s “well duuuuuh” moment brought to you by Psychology Today.

When people are divided into categories to illustrate the idea of diversity, it reinforces the idea of the categories. Categories are dehumanizing. They simplify the complexity of a human being. So focusing people on the categories increases their prejudice. Don’t reinforce labels, which only serve to stereotype.

Millions of dollars a year were spent on the training resulting in, well, nothing.

I could have told you this for a dollar. Anytime we focus on race, gender, or sexual preference we risk losing the individual to the label, which makes it easier to stereotype. Though, I am not entirely against the use of labels as they help us recall a frame of reference.

Honestly, the idea is ludicrous and unrealistically idealistic. Whether you agree with me or not, you will never forcefully indoctrinate or erase labels. Labels exist for a purpose, they help us identify groups of people either positively or negatively. People will always stereotype.

In other news; study finds people who buy organic foods are pretentious, elitist snobs. Again, I could have told you this for a dollar.