Tokenism is someone without a certain experience asking those with that experience to comment on a perceivably niche, narrow something that the person without experience thinks is relevant to those with the experience. It's permission to provide feedback on a specified little area of things that the person without experience is comfortable letting those with the experience see and participate in. It is paternalistic and it is patronising. It is controlling. Representation is an equal platform. It is not telling someone what affects them but asking them and shutting up and hearing the answer. 