[greenthrow]

This take is cynical to the point of wilfull ignorance. My spouse works in DEI and I guarantee you her and her coworkers are sincere and trying to instill better, less biased hiring practices and to make everyone feel welcome and part of the team. Not everyone is going to be the same but that's like anything else. Being 100% dismissive is as much of a mistake as being 100% unquestioningly accepting.

[drewbug01]

I believe the comment is implying that having DEI programs at all was a song-and-dance put on by the C-suite; not that your spouse is insincere in their work.

Put differently: the C-suite set up these programs (and hired very sincere people to work in them) but never really actually cared about the outcomes.

[nearbuy]

The C-suite are humans and as humans, many of them have ideologies. It's very cynical to think executives have no goals or ideologies beyond enriching themselves.

[drewbug01]

> but never really actually cared about the outcomes

To be clear, I'm referring to the outcomes of the DEI programs in and of themselves; not the outcomes that resulted from having those programs (and/or appearing to have them). And to be clear - some C-suites really might have cared about the programs because they believed in them.

> It's very cynical to think executives have no goals or ideologies beyond enriching themselves.

I disagree, wholeheartedly. The majority of executives have shown, time and again, that they primarily care about money. A close second is power. It's not to say that they don't have goals beyond enriching themselves, but rather that does appear to be the goal they overwhelmingly choose when said values are in conflict.

[JeremyNT]

Parent post is about capital not workers.

Companies are filled with workers, and plenty of them do care. But unless they work for a co-op employees are disposable, and ultimately they serve at the whims of capital.

When capital decides that equity doesn't sell, the workers striving to create more diverse workplaces will be discarded.

The only counter to this is government, but Americans just voted for a government that explicitly wants to increase disparities.

There is literally no counter to this in the private sector, save co-ops or non-profits that actually sell their principals as part of their brand (e.g. Patagonia).

[lantry]

I think both things are true: there are people who sincerely want to change things, but the organization and incentive structure for large public orgs means the corps will only do things that don't lower their profits.

[curtisblaine]

How does she implement DEI, in terms of hiring practices?

[bamboozled]

Exactly, throwing the baby out with the bath water, but I have to ask the question , why did any of this happen in the first place? There must’ve been some need and catalyst for it outside of “libtardation”.