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Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Encouraging workplace policies that support anti-discrimination without imposing specific beliefs allows employees from all backgrounds—whether critical social justice advocates, feminists, conservatives, minorities, LGBTQ individuals, or those who are religious or agnostic—to align with an organization’s commitment to fairness and inclusivity. This approach empowers individuals to clarify their own philosophical beliefs regarding race, gender, and identity, enabling them to advocate for anti-discrimination from their unique perspectives rather than imposing a culture of conformity to a single narrative or ideology.

Furthermore, this approach shifts the focus; rather than feeling isolated or viewed as the enemy for holding different perspectives and challenging authoritarian workplace policies, individuals are empowered to engage in open dialogue. This proactive engagement assists employers in designing inclusive, non-authoritarian frameworks that respect diverse viewpoints and promote equality.

In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Helen Pluckrose and Carrie Clark discuss their work supporting various organizations navigating the obstacles posed by authoritarian practices in social justice initiatives. They share insights into the challenges of safeguarding free expression, tolerance, and reasoned debate in a climate that often prioritizes conformity over complexity.

Watch our full length episode with Helen Pluckrose and Carrie Clark: https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/episode-191

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0:25.7	We would find that a lot of people would come in, and it was the summer of 2020,
0:30.6	I'm sure we can all remember, there was this sort of surge of, you know,
0:34.5	crazy.
0:35.1	EDI and kind of activism.
0:38.3	And so many employers would bring in policy,
0:41.3	they wanted to do something and they very genuinely,
0:44.3	you know, they were concerned, you know,
0:47.3	that they needed to, you know, to take action.
0:50.3	And they would kind of do a Google search for, you know,
0:53.3	anti-racism or equality, diversity, and inclusion
0:56.6	and implement the first thing they found, you know, and so many people found themselves thinking,
1:03.0	well, I'm not racist, but I don't believe in white privilege and unconscious bias and white fragility.
1:11.6	And, you know, I want to be able to oppose racism, you know, from my own philosophical framework
1:17.6	of, you know, colour blindness and equal treatment and, you know, and things like that.
1:21.6	And we had the same thing with gender issues, you know, people, people went, oh God, we've got to do something about, you know,
1:29.1	the transgender issue in our workplace. And then the next day, everybody's doing manual,
1:33.6	mandatory pronoun declarations. And, you know, if you don't, you're out and you're in trouble,
1:39.2	you know. And we really tried to help people start from the first principles.
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