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When diversity hiring becomes performative inclusion

My company hired me for diversity but I realize they just want me to smile in photos and not actually change anything and I feel complicit in my own tokenism.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being reduced to symbolic representation while meaningful change remains elusive creates moral distress.

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