| > By implication, you are also arguing that all the companies running these programs don't believe the things they're saying, but rather have been coerced into saying them I'm arguing no such thing. Hiring of people that espouse and practice DEI has been legally incentivized. Whether they believe in them or not doesn't matter, and after the law got the ball rolling (and made sure it stays rolling even in companies that otherwise wouldn't cooperate), it's perfectly likely lots of true believers would also join. In fact, I implied the opposite in my root comment ("plus positive-reinforcement as the alumni of these institutions take up influential positions in society"), which you would have known if you weren't busy coming up with the most bad-faith interpretation of my words that you could find. > a legal threat so amorphous that we can't come up with a single instance of it happening I literally linked to a legal case of it happening in my root comment. Unless you want a lawsuit specifically about a missing DEI program, something which I never claimed, and already explained so. > a correlation between the deployment of DEI programs and the number of discrimination lawsuits. Here's the number of discrimination lawsuits - you'll notice the upward trend, though it's only for '78-'06: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/total-number-of-civil-ca... And you'll find a graph of HR departments in https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-j... - you probably missed it in your hurry to dismiss the author as an overt racist (a claim for which you presented no evidence). Notice how both trend upwards, therefore are correlated. Unfortunately I don't think there's a graph like that specifically for DEI programs, as "equity" itself is a word that only recently became fashionable. And I couldn't find a graph showing the proportion of companies with generic diversity programs either. A crucial weakness in my argument, that will allow a motivated reader such as yourself to dismiss it entirely. |
As for Hanania, here's a starting point:
https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/148562348106054041...
He's not subtle about it.