Tech's troubling new trend: Diversity is in your head

Cognitive diversity, instead of racial and gender diversity, is gaining traction

Discussing her work at Apple at an event last week about fighting racial injustice, Denise Young Smith, the company’s vice-president of diversity and inclusion, said, “There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room and they’re going to be diverse, too, because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.”
 
That’s right: A dozen white men, so long as they were not raised in the same household and don’t think identical thoughts could be considered diverse. After a furore erupted, Smith clarified her comments in an email to her team that