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Should companies be allowed to require mandatory diversity training for employees?

Diversity training is any program designed to facilitate positive intergroup interaction, reduce prejudice and discrimination, and generally teach individuals who are different from others how to work together effectively. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor DeSantis signed into law the “Individual Freedom Act.” The bill prohibited schools and companies from mandating diversity training as a requirement for attendance or employment. If schools or employers violated the law they would be exposed to expanded civil liability exposures. Banned mandatory training topics include: 1.…  

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Response rates from 425 Maryland voters.

60%
Yes
40%
No
51%
Yes
31%
No
4%
Yes, and all companies should require mandatory diversity training
4%
No, only for employees that commit acts of discrimination
2%
Yes, but only if it is a private company
4%
No, diversity training should be encouraged but not required
2%
Yes, and immediately expel any employees that commit acts of discrimination
0%
No, and mandatory diversity training should be banned

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 @9F56K6Z from Utah  answered…3yrs3Y

No, this will lead to more hatred and animosity.

 @9HB5MKV from North Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but only if the training focuses on racial cooperation and understanding and not critical race theory where one race is more privileged or disadvantaged compared to another

 @9JDPRPN from Alaska  answered…2yrs2Y

No, everyone is equal no matter who they are and diversity training is kinda wrong to be honest and it's up to the employee's behavior.

  @9JL9Q8N  from North Carolina  answered…2yrs2Y

No, this practice is divisive, choosing to focus on what makes us different from each other - ceding even more "power" to those that have been protected/privileged (legally/programs - affirmative action). We should be focused on values that we can unite to support and that makes companies succeed - good work.

 @9BFSG84 from Louisiana  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, if they want to. But personally, I think this is a stupid trend happening. It's unnecessary by adding more attention to race your making people more conscious of race. An example is a kid said when he was in middle school he never once thought about race. but once he had crt all he thought abt a person while first meeting them was race. We shouldn't focus about race for anything we should just regonise that were all people and that we should be treated equally.

 @9FB23ZX from Washington  answered…3yrs3Y

I don't understand this question, can it be more specific?

  @04DANSALCALIFORNIA@ from California  answered…3yrs3Y

Encourage diversity, but if you have to tell your employees not to be racist, they shouldn't be employees.

 @BDXH46F from Virginia  answered…2wks2W

Abolish private property

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Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

A Moment of Darkness': Washington Post's No-Endorsement Decision Ignites Media Firestorm

Even though the presidential race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is neck and neck, The Washington Post has decided not to make a presidential endorsement for the first time in 36 years, the publisher and CEO announced Friday."We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates," Will Lewis wrote in an opinion piece published on the paper's website. He referenced the paper's policy in the decades prior to 1976, when, following the Watergate scandal that the Post broke, it endorsed Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter. The last time the Post did not endorse a presidential candidate in the general election was 1988, according to a search of its archives.Colleagues learned the news from the editorial page editor, David Shipley, at a tense meeting shortly before Lewis' announcement. The meeting was characterized by someone with direct knowledge of discussions on condition of anonymity to speak about internal matters.Shipley said that he told other editorial board leaders Thursday by management that there would be no endorsement, though he has known for weeks. He added that he "owns" this decision. The reason he cited was to create "independent space" where the newspaper does not tell people for whom to vote.Colleagues were said to be "shocked" and uniformly negative. Post corporate spokespeople have not responded to multiple messages left by NPR on the subject.Former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron, who led the newsroom to acclaim during Trump's presidency, denounced the decision starkly."This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty," Baron said in a statement to NPR. "Donald Trump will celebrate this as an invitation to further intimidate The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos (and other media owners). History will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness at an institution famed for courage."A similar decision by Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong led this week to the resignations of the paper's editorials editor and two editorial board members. Soon-Shiong said that he had asked the editorial board to draft a "factual analysis" of Trump and Harris' policies and plans. In her resignation letter, editorials editor Mariel Garza said the decision made the paper look “craven and hypocritical,” given its past reporting and editorials on Trump.

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