The impact of centuries of slavery, segregation, and unequal treatment doesn't disappear quickly. Even if the root causes were completely resolved (and they are not), the consequences reverberate for a long time. We cannot forget that much of our life is a result of where we start, and it was the same for our parents, and their parents.
They know.
Surprisingly, they don't. Well, the ones who enact / reject these policies do, but the layman doesn't. It's incredibly frustrating to have friends and co-workers who reject the explanation for why DEI matters and is important
Sorry for my ignorance, but what does DEI stand for?
No need to apologize. Diversity, equity and inclusion. It's the principle that having more representation is a good thing. The Trump administration is against it because they claim it takes opportunities away from straight white men.
i mean it does and that's a good thing, we've seen what happens when we leave it up to the employer.
nepotism hires as far as the eye can see.
People denied COVID was real whilst gargling their own lungs. What the fuck would it take to convince you these assholes aren't secretly well-informed?
Meant the people doing it
She still believes that conservatives argue in good faith?
As a white guy, it is like that. In the same way it is in female run office spaces. But white guy culture is definitely the most toxic. They feel unashamedly deserving when they find good old boys clubs.
Having worked in a sexist office, it sucks, having worked for good old boys, it sucks. Not being able to call people out on their shit fucking sucks.
female run office spaces
The worst places I have worked at had female leadership and majority women employees. The gossip and bullying was off the scale. Older ladies harassing young men was a daily occurrence and laughed at.
As a white guy, I'd like to think it's not like that. I'd like to think that we left racism and all this bullshit in the past and any job goes to the best qualified applicant regardless of race, gender, or sexual preferences.
While I would like that to be true, I know that isn't the world we live in.
Diversity
Equity
Inclusion
It's not "woke", no matter how hard they try to convince you of it! Diversity: Okay, yeah. If you're some close-minded person who's stayed in the same small town your whole life you might fear people who are different and not understand them. Literally part of what these initiatives are trying to improve, but whatever. However, the other two are basically just about fairness and making sure everyone has the chance to thrive! Nothing to fear there! Who could possibly be against that!?
Progress threatens the profoundly mediocre.
To answer the last sentence: literally Nazis
People hire their friends and family anyway.
We're attracting the good trolls, I'm sorry that I have to lock it.
People lie about it in my experience. I work in government and in education. I've received our "DEI" training. I'm in the very heart of it, and all I've seen is that it's the exact thing that the people who complain about it say (sometimes) that they want instead. They (probably say but don't necessarily mean) that we should hire based on merit and not race. Well guess what? My dei training is watching a video where: some boss says "I don't want to hire Ahmed ", his subordinate says "but he's the best candidate" and his boss says "yeah but he's Indian" freeze frame, question on what you should do, play video saying to hire him if he's the most qualified guy.
Maybe your experience is different, but I'm in an organization that is what gets pointed to the hardest as "the problem" by these people, and I have seen what they describe. Maybe it's different for HR, but are you in our HR department, or have you just "heard about it"
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