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It's so fucking funny how the right are literal NPCs with a culture war chip in their head that can be swapped out like a ps1 memory card for the next culture war point. (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Please insert disc 2 to blame DEI for the bridge collapse.

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

What is dei

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

Eventually they're going to just come up with another LGBT acronym

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

I don't know how I feel about knowing this. Did the cons make this up or co-opt it?

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They took the term from corpos that use DEI "policies" as a way to make themselves look good to libs.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

and they believe this is why capitalism is broken

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Ahh. I've only ever worked for small businesses.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

It's been kicked into cultural consciousness lately by (among other things) melon-musk publicly worrying that because there are black pilots and doctors, it must mean that DEI is lowering the standards for pilots and doctors, so wokeness is literally killing people. It's not even subtle racism.