What's DEI?
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion laws. They hold companies accountable for discriminating against people with non-normal circumstances. This can include pregnant women, discriminated peoples such as people of color or immigrants, and disabled individuals.
Ah ok, got it. Never heard the acronym before.
Get ready to hear it almost every day now
Conservatives painted DEI as providing Equity in a discriminatory way.
IE: We are hiring 100 people; we have set a goal to hire 30 people of color, 20 neurodivergent people, 20 queer folk, and 10 Women but we are NOT setting a goal for Straight White Men.
The narrative has been made that Straight White Men are being excluded from graduate programs because these quotas must be filled.
In this extreme example it looks pretty bad, because we should be striving to hire and place people based on talent and reliability alone.
It is a branding issue. The outrage has nothing to do with what DEI really is but focuses on a rare example that does the opposite of what it was designed to do.
Another example of how the Truth™ is being used to divide us.
I would argue that even if it was just about ethnicity, it's the right thing to do to ensure that biases aren't excluding people and that if you are now giving consideration to DEI policies simply because it might include people with lighter skin tone too, then you are a fucking racist asshole.
But maybe that's just me.
It may even include you one day. Social safety nets benefit both those already in them, and anyone that may eventually need them.
these are people who fantasize about the 1940s and 1950s. and have devils advocates and admirerers of the people who used to treat mentally handicapped and crippled people like things to be culled. I think this just gives the Nazis more ammo. not less
I appreciate the attempt at screaming into the abyss bit this comes across as 'oh I get thar you feel those ethnics don't deserve anything but think about all these people that may be in your ingroup this might affect!'
I don't think whitewashing DEI is to sell it.