The Diversity Movement – Is it Trite?, con't

Teachings and writings on diversity often lack content. In this post we will look at one of the catch-phrases of diversity, the so-called “platinum rule.” It’s a diversity “improvement” on Jesus Christ.
The Golden Rule by Jesus of Nazareth is rendered as follows: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Source: Matthew 7:12.
“… (T) he Platinum rule…was described by Dr. Milton Bennet in the book Basic Concepts of intercultural Communications (Intercultural Press, 1998). This is an expansion of the Golden Rule, which has been a time-honored practice that permeates many religious beliefs. In telling us to ‘Treat other as you want to be treated,’ its intentions are sound. It was designed to prevent us from doing harm to others – things that others obviously would not like.”
“With the increasing complexity of our society, we can now add to the Golden Rule in order to account for people’s different and unique needs. This enables us to move beyond ‘one size fits all.’ By assuming that someone else wants what we do, we can’t take into account that person’s uniqueness. The Platinum Rule gives others permission to be different from us, and reminds us to honor that difference.”

“The Platinum Rule is to treat others as they want to be treated.” Source: Tina Rasmussen, Diversity Mosaic Participant Workbook: Developing Cultural Competence (San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, published by Pfieffer, 2007), p. 19
Earlier, in 1994, Professor Norma Carr-Ruffino had identified the same improvement on Christianity. Source: Norma Carr-Ruffino, Managing Diversity: People Skills for a Multicultural Workplace (USA: Thompson Executive Press, 1994), p. 13
It is common to hear diversity trainers talk about the “platinum rule” (often without crediting Bennet, Rasmussen or Carr-Ruffino) without realizing their condescension toward the beliefs of tens of millions of Christians. The Golden Rule is not, as Dr. Milton Bennet opined, “to prevent us from doing harm to others.”
As the second president of the United States, John Adams wrote: “The precept …do as you would be done by, implies an equality which is the real equality of nature and Christianity...” Source: Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot, Seventh Revised Edition (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc.: 1953, 1960, 1972, 1985, 2001 printing), p. 95
Isn’t it possible that Jesus was teaching understanding and empathy and equality rather than teaching people to impose their standards on others? (That itself would be a violation of the Golden Rule.)