In a corporation, this is a person who was hired solely because of the color of their skin, or their sexual identity, as opposed to their actual skills or contributions to the company. This person is usually employed for reasons including company PR or lower government taxation.
Jerry: "Which one of us was the useless simpleton who organized all these files incorrectly?"
Harry: "It was Terry, the diversity hire."
Jerry: "If we screwed up as much as he does, we'd be fired."
Harry: "Sadly, Terry is a homosexual black man, so HR won't touch him."
Harry: "It was Terry, the diversity hire."
Jerry: "If we screwed up as much as he does, we'd be fired."
Harry: "Sadly, Terry is a homosexual black man, so HR won't touch him."
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a song that describes the drama going on between olivia rodrigo, joshuah basset, and sabrina carpenter. olivia and joshua were rumored to have dated and joshua flirted with sabrina carpenter. in the song olivia says your probably with that blonde girl, and sabrina is blonde!
im crying over the song “drivers license” by olivia rodrigo. im having a drivers license situation right now.
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My new ream leader is a diversity hire. Totally useless but the company will cover for him as he's black and gay
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Get the diversity mug."Lisa, couldn't restrain her passion any longer, and before her boyfriend, Tom, could swallow his own shit, (for he was a dilver), she closed her mouth upon his and tongued him ferociously, proving that she was, indeed, a dilver diver."
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Get the Dilver Diver mug.A term used to describe the process of including diversity for the sake of pushing diverse agenda, or where it does not fit. This is very similar to white washing, but usually does the opposite. It most commonly applies to film adaptations of books, who race or gender swap characters to ensure the film cast is diverse, in places where the book or story characters were not. It also applied to historical adaptations in which a character (usually white) from history is portrayed as being some other race than they actually where historically. Can apply to film, video game, comic book, plays, books or any other form of media.
Portraying Achilles as a black man, instead of Mediterranean, is just film makers diversity washing Homer's Greek classic The Iliad...
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