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[Anonymous]

I was part of a diversity council. The questions we raised were too sensitive. A tenured manager volunteered himself/herself to be the liaison whose purpose was to filter out everything before presenting the results to the director. Eventually all the members were replaced with brand new reps and mostly recent college grads from privileged backgrounds. I still chuckle whenever Merck posts a photo of the director of the diversity dept., a black gentleman because we know he is a token minority and all our questions were tossed away for those years I was on the council. Looking back I realized Merck wanted to create all these diversity councils to appear to be sensitive but really want us not to take it seriously nor make any suggestion at all.

Sad. Not surprising. True diversity considers all input and suggestions and uses them in any decision making.