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Why was she doing “air-quotes” while saying ‘increase diversity’?

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Rebecca

There are different ways that air quotes can be used, but here it is used to reflect disagreement by making the term in air quotes ironic. In the video, she is using air quotes in this case because she does not believe "increasing diversity" correctly represents what she does at her work, which is what half of her coworkers think attending a meeting is the only thing she does.

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