Diversity Schemes Are Costing Firms Billions But They Do Not Work, Says Documentary-Maker Tim Samuels
Companies spend billions each year on diversity and equality schemes, but research shows that they do not have a positive impact on workplace inclusion, according to the documentary-maker Tim Samuels.
He told Martin Daubney on GB News: “I’ve had a long interest in men and mental health, and I was talking to companies about men’s mental health, and at the end, there’ll always be guys who come up to and say, ‘I can’t say this out loud, but my career has taken a real hit because I’m a man. I don’t want to do that. Things have to change. I’m not sexist, I’m not racist, but I’m really suffering’.
“I heard that so many times, I thought, I need to investigate this, gauge how wide this is, and I did some polling, spoke to a lot of people, and I was really staggered by what we got back
“For nearly half of all white guys to be walking around too scared to even give respectful feedback to a colleague, to not risk making a joke, to a third have said that their mental health has been affected because there’s that terrible fear that doing or saying the wrong thing and you’re out the door because you canceled.
“More than one in three young guys are saying that they’ve directly lost out on career opportunities promotions because they’re white men. It was on a scale I didn’t expect.
“No one’s saying this didn’t have to change – in my old BBC days, I worked undercover to expose racism. But the DEI, the diversity programs that have been rolled out aren’t just nice HR policies. They’re actually rooted in an early 70s radical Marxism.
“It divides everyone into oppressed and oppressor, and if you’re white and male, you’re an oppressor. Doesn’t matter if you’re working class. Doesn’t matter what your mental health is like. You’re already seen as top of the pack, and as we know it’s a massive distortion of what it’s like for most guys.
“The left, if you look at the Democrats in the States, they were the blue-collar party. Liberals and the left have a blind spot when it comes to men, everyone’s been so focused elsewhere, and this sense of men being dominant and oppressive, that they don’t take men seriously.
“Donald Trump was winning men of all ages and from ethnicities. He was doing very well. He wasn’t expected to. And amongst our polling, the biggest sympathy amongst those who feel disenfranchised was for Reform. So I have no doubt that not taking men seriously is pushing them further to the right.”
He added: “If you apply that to adulthood, when companies run things like whiteness programs, which the NHS has done and the police have done, you find that afterwards, they’re counterproductive. Things are worse for women and minorities and after you run these programs, because you’ve gone in there and you’ve told a bunch of white guys, ‘hey, you’re all implicitly racist, you just don’t know it, and you’re hyper-privileged’.
“The natural reaction when someone calls you racist isn’t to say, ‘oh, that’s right, I never knew I was racist. Thank you for saying it, it’s like, ‘no, I’m not’ and you rebel against that.
“These DEI programs, which have cost about $14 billion a year when you crunch the data, which very few companies do, and I’ve been working with this Harvard sociologist, they don’t work. They don’t make life better for black people, for women, for minorities. And on top of this, they are driving up white men’s level of anxiety, self-censorship and seemingly having an impact on people’s careers.”
