An “Antique” VHS program Provided Better Tools for Managing Diversity

It seems apparent YouTube is not aware of this video program. I searched for this program produced in the 1980s on YouTube. No results found. I searched widely on several search engines, not found. I did not find evidence of this program being used in YouTube’s Community Guidelines.

YouTube could learn a lot from this antique VHS program.

My conclusion is “YouTube is not properly managing diversity.” Their recent decision to remove historical German events declared as hate speech is evidence their community standards do not address the consumer’s personal responsibility. However, they are explicit on the responsibility of the content providers through censoring, blocking and excluding them from posting for “violating community guidelines.” YouTube’s community is a two-way street; holding content providers stringently responsible should require holding content viewers personally responsible to “selectively choose what they view.”

Here are some notes for YouTube/Google and it’s frenemies, Twitter and Facebook, to think about when developing diversity policies and community guidelines, which they all have and my specific diversity quotient ZERO is not considered. This is deliberate and intended exclusion and is discrimination action based on a pre-judged condition being Diversity ZERO.

VHS-based Diversity Management

The VHS cassette was used for Diversity Management training for the Air Force Senior Enlisted Leader Academy, part of a six-week curriculum. For me, this training happened within days of September 11, 2001, maybe that is why it stuck in my mind so well. The program is hosted by Steve Landesberg and entitled “The FAIRway to Manage Diversity.” FAIR is an acronym for Feedback, Assistance, Inclusion, and Respect. I took personal responsibility to apply this acronym in managing diversity throughout the remaining years of my military career.

These guidelines offer opportunities for higher social media free speech standards while addressing the Civil Rights responsibilities of content viewers and providers.

YouTube Received Feedback

Apparently, as reported in the Legacy Media, YouTube has received feedback on information posted on their respective sites. I would say they are being blasted by individuals confusing historic video of Germany with the hate of the Nazis and events of the past, the Holocaust, with their reality of the present.

If you believe everything on the Legacy Media there is a lot of hate and deceit over an investigation and the election outcome from three years ago. When watching the Legacy Media be aware that their feedback is loaded with slant and spin to diminish your view and pursuit of happiness. Lack of correctly assessing the feedback of events causes irrational behavior.

Be mindful to correctly discern events and potentially destructive feedback. One promotes you, the other destroys you. YouTube seems to have a chosen an agenda against Diversity ZERO. Once Diversity ZERO is silenced Diversity will have no “anchor.”

Be Mindful When Using Media

Historical digital media being shared online apparently has no feedback or descriptive assistance defining historical significance. While actual events are being presented, the responsibility to civil discourse does not include caution for viewers of potentially offensive images.

Historical events have inherent value to people choosing to access and view them. It is ultimately a personal choice and responsibility to click, select, upload, or copy digital media from any online source. Apparently, Social Media platforms are not assisting people with being mindful of their personal responsibility when using the media.

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion are not excluding, removing, deleting, or censoring a view, video, or comment by an individual- Diversity ZERO or otherwise. Social Media Platforms are superior in using these tools to ignore the diversity of its audience, users, subscribers, and financiers. The First Amendment is inclusive of all peoples of the United States.

Diversity is a strength of our nation and the varied opinions help us be better informed and aware in deciding our America’s direction. It is also considered a Civil Rights issue as YouTube communication occurs online publicly throughout numerous civil spheres of our society. All people by right should be included and have a personal responsibility to participate.

Diversity and Respect

Respect is the cornerstone of a well-managed diversity program. It is the wind in the sails of dignity in diversity. Dignity empowers people by respect for their diversity in any given situation. Whether posting or viewing digitally via YouTube or posting and viewing at the local Post Office, respect others around you.

Acknowledge them cordially with respect and dignity. When we can post historic events to social media “free of the encumbrances” of hate and media created diversity slander, then we can all enjoy the Free Speech and Civil Rights afforded American Citizens by the Laws provided in the Constitution of the United States.

Outcome and Growth of Properly Managed Diversity.

Properly managed diversity provides feedback, assistance, inclusion, and respect for all viewers and events. Providing everyone their stake in events. No one group or persons is or should be at fault or to blame for consequences faced by another.

We are all created equal (as it is stated in the Declaration of independence). Together we (all inclusive) assist and aid one another. We provide feedback toward understanding our diversity. We assist one another in growing to “form a more perfect union”, to “establish justice, “ensure domestic tranquility”, “provide for the common defense”, “promote the general welfare”, and “secures the blessings of liberty” to ourselves and our posterity as guarded by law in Constitution of the United States.

Respect and Dignity for one another is the cornerstone of diversity and eliminates the rationale for exclusive practices and censoring so the strength of our diversity raises us as a nation. YouTube could learn a lot from this antique VHS program. Or, is this program one they have already deleted?