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"Diversity is just another word for conformity. It’s the new way of saying conformity, diversity".

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Steven Patrick Morrissey, also known as Morrissey, solo artist, and former frontman of The Smiths.
Morrissey Interview, The London Palladium, October 2022

“And it just means – it’s just another word for conformity. It’s the new way of saying conformity, diversity. You don’t see anything diverse anyway, it’s all conformity”.

"It is, when people think about diversity, they don’t think about the great things that we don’t have in common; those things are ignored (…)".

"Now they just want everything to be the same, the same. So diversity means conformity. It doesn’t mean let’s.. it doesn’t mean avant-garde, or, ‘Let’s make really interesting, strange art.’ It means box everybody [in]”.

"Diversity is, I think, a dreadful word. Pin it to anything, and that situation is finish. It’s a terrible word – terrible".