But here's the thing about diversity training: it doesn't work.

然而，多元化培训有一个问题：它不起作用。

The appeal of the training is that, unlike old-fashioned diversity training, it's intended to be guilt-free.

培训的吸引力在于，与老式的多元化培训不同，这一课程的目标在于不追究责任。

Yet companies continue to invest heavily in diversity training spending, by one estimate, almost $8 billion a year.

然而，很多公司仍在继续大力投资多元化培训，据估计，每年投资的额度将近80亿美元。

That's right: companies that introduced diversity training would actually employ more women and black men today if they had never had diversity training at all.

没错，要不是因为搞了多元化培训，很多公司现在肯定已经雇用了更多的女性员工和黑人男性员工。

For most of its history, diversity training has been pretty much a cudgel, pounding white men into submission with a mix of finger-wagging and guilt-mongering.

大多数时候，多元化培训都像一个棍棒，夹杂着拒绝或兜售內疚感等伎俩来迫使白人男性屈服。

Once the school understood the rule's disproportionate effect, Cooper says, it voluntarily changed the policy, expanded the role of its civil-rights coordinator and mandated diversity training for all employees.

库珀说，学校一旦意识到这一规定的产生过分的影响，就会主动改变政策，扩大其民权协调员的角色，并对所有学员进行多元化培训。

And I know in companies I've been in and companies I consult in, there's this go to the diversity training and it treats it all as one thing.

我知道在我曾经工作过的公司和我咨询过的公司中，都有这种多元化培训，并且它把这一切都视为一件事。