Tokenism
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Parading around your best example of a [marginalized] group (that one woman [CEO] or that one amazing black teacher) to prove you [aren]’t sexist or racist.
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actions that are the result of pretending to give advantage to those groups in society who are often treated unfairly, in order to give the appearance of fairness
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The practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce.
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