Matt Blaze
That the new administration is opposed to "DEI" (and is quick to use it as a scapegoat for just about everything bad) is unsurprising and was expected, but the aggressiveness of today's anti-DEI purge is still jarring and disturbing. They are creating an atmosphere in which any attempt to hire, promote, or engage with anyone other than a white male will be regarded as inherently suspect.
The damage - to both individuals and to our institutions - will likely be both swift and long lasting.
Fish of Rage
Matt Blaze
I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. EVERY SINGLE TIME I've been part of a committee or decision-making body that was explicitly mandated to consider diversity as part of its process, it resulted in better, more thoughtful decisions and outcomes. EVERY TIME.
Diversity yields enormous, and often unexpected, benefits. And inclusion is not a zero-sum game.
Fish of Rage
Matt Blaze
@sun I'm sorry you feel so threatened by different people. Perhaps you'll grow out of it.
Matt Blaze
Anyway, the ferocity of this, and especially the Orwellian mandate to rat out "suspect" colleague, is even more chilling than I expected.
Xenofact (he/him):jrbd:
@mattblaze I've been the only white guy in the room. It often feels decisions are better
Fish of Rage
Peter Ludemann
@sun Maybe you could learn from this really smart guy? (Whose experience matches mine, even though I'm not as smart; in fact I enjoy being the dumbest person in the room)
@mattblaze
Fi 🏳️⚧️
they're kinda using it as a catch-all slur, too, for anyone who isn't a cishet white man.
which, if you think about it, we're talking about - what, maybe a third of the country? - is "normal" and the rest of us are DEI.
Fish of Rage
Peter Ludemann
@sun
On the off-chance that you're not a troll: “DEI is not lowering the bar, it is widening the gate.” ... "DEI *raises* the bar, since you have a bigger talent pool ..."
https://hachyderm.io/@aronow/113875619118750711
@mattblaze
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷
@mattblaze Various comments suggest that it is a deliberate revenge against Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, and any other Democrat of colour. It doesn't have to make any sense. White Supremacy doesn't make sense. White Americans are *not* being outnumbered by black and hispanic Americans. #Hysteria
⚡Lord of Misrule⚡
clacke
Chris Adams
@mattblaze I’m also noting how aggressively they’re gunning for accessibility now that the election is over. Those memos look like someone might risk consequences for not reporting an ASL interpreter, getting a ramp instead of stairs on a building, etc.
John Burns
They don't want diverse...
They want homogenous.
They don't want ideas which stray off-path.
All their women look the same and when they didn't "have the look" they changed themselves into the look.
Their guys have issues. Alcohol. Drugs. Girl issues: rapist, domestic abuse
nickapos :clubtwit:
@mattblaze diversity is one of the best way to beat group think and monoculture of ideas.
Rev. Roger BW 😷
@mattblaze I think anti-inclusion and zero-sum thinking go together. "There isn't enough [stuff], so I want decisions to be made by people like me so that they will favour people like me."
Jen, MPH :verified:
@mattblaze I know at least one federal agency had to archive all of the online trainings that mention DEIA (Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and Accessibility) by COB today. This included Reasonable Accommodations training, which is a required part of the ADA.
I’m seeing a theme where they are doing more than what they claimed they’d do and I don’t like it
ColesStreetPothole
@mattblaze Are you now or have you ever considered hiring a non-white, non-male person? #TheNewMcCarthyism
Jane Vogel
@mattblaze DEI also applies to accessibility for handicapped, which the Right is conveniently downplaying. I believe Veterans get consideration under that policy, another interesting omission from the discussion.
David P
It's the latest distraction scapegoat for hate after "critical race theory". Fascists need to keep their supporters focused on something "other" to hate/fear , instead of the real decline in their living standards, freedoms etc.
I'm all but sure The Heritage Foundation has a list and they're working down it.
Matt Blaze
@bontchev Oh, the "See what you made me do?" logic of petty bullies everywhere.
Don't bother replying.
VessOnSecurity
@mattblaze Very true - and I blame Biden for that. It's the backlash from his policies. All extremities are wrong, including the current one, but extremity in one direction invariably leads to extremity in the opposite direction, as people get fed up and lash back.
The law already forbids discriminating people based on race, gender, religion, etc. This simply had to be enforced, without the need for the DEI nonsense.
Of course, the first Democrat that comes after Trump will tug to the extreme opposite of *his* extreme too. As a result of these petty revenge games, innocent and competent individuals will suffer and have their lives and careers destroyed... The whole society will suffer.
Fuck all politicians...
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