{"id":18601,"date":"2013-01-22T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2013-01-22T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T04:11:09","slug":"toronto-dominion-the-diversity-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-dominion-the-diversity-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Dominion: the diversity bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion isn\u2019t dead in Canada: it\u2019s not even languishing. The religion of diversity and inclusion is flourishing in Canadian companies. For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.td.com\/corporate-responsibility\/crr-2010\/diversity\/our-approach\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">TD bank<\/a> believes, with a confidence that can only be born of religious fervour, that diversity and inclusion being cardinal virtues is an a priori truth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We take a holistic, three-pronged view of diversity and inclusion in our business activities: in how we recruit, manage and develop employees; how we serve our customers and market ourselves; and how we contribute to our communities.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re gaining momentum, we know that becoming more diverse and inclusive takes time and commitment and we are still on the early stages of our journey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although it is lagging behind the commercial expression of this cultural credo, the Anglican Church of Canada adheres to a\u00a0 similar pietism.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the TD Bank concentrates much of its devotion on World Pride, the LGBTA \u201ccommunity\u201d and health centres for \u201cgay men\u201d and \u201cqueer women\u201d. TD\u2019s \u201cjourney\u201d to inclusion has yet to reach the more rarefied strata of paedophilia, bestiality, polyamory and incest: they themselves admit that they are \u201cstill on the early stages\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Here is TD\u2019s enticement to use their services: it appears that to get the $250, the bank would prefer you to be gay:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18602\" alt=\"TD ad\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TD-ad.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion isn\u2019t dead in Canada: it\u2019s not even languishing. The religion of diversity and inclusion is flourishing in Canadian companies. For example, the TD bank believes, with a confidence that can only be born of religious fervour, that diversity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-dominion-the-diversity-bank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167,1553],"class_list":["post-18601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality","tag-toronto-dominion-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}