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by hypeatei 243 days ago
DEI is about expanding the talent pools and considering more people for something. If you have problems with specific implementations of DEI, that's fine, but to pretend it's all bad is disingenuous. Please list a specific program that you have an issue with so that people can actually discuss substance.
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No it isn't. It's about filling in quotas ignoring talent and objectifying people based on their ethnicity, race and gender. It exists in order to assuage the guilt of elite white liberals. You just moved the goalposts to include things that nobody can argue against in order to make it sound resonable. My issue is that it's racist because it discriminates for people based on the colour of their skin.
> It's about filling in quotas ignoring talent and objectifying people based on their ethnicity, race and gender.

That's illegal[0]. If this is going on, then enlighten us or the EEOC.

> You just moved the goalposts to include things that nobody can argue against

What? You said: "disingenuous to now pretend that DEI was about class and economic status" when it clearly is about those things. Again, please show one example of a program that you think isn't doing that. I understand that you think DEI is a sinister initiative, but bickering over a conservative boogeyman is unproductive.

0: https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices