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OPINION - I'm sick of diversity questionnaires — the best place for them is safely stacked in a bonfire

Source: MURRAY SANDERS

Having suffered intermittently since childhood from racism, I hate questionnaires like poison. If a “diversity questionnaire” lands on my desk, it goes straight in the bin. Providing to officialdom deeply personal information on gender, sexual orientation, religion, race/ — I’m not doing that. It’s my business. I was nearly barred entry to Laos because I refused to fill in one. It’s a matter

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