Conversation

"We're against DEI here!"

So... you want me to preferentially hire and promote young white men who are (or pass for being) cisgender, heterosexual, christian, able-bodied, neurotypical and extroverted?

Meaning you want me to pass over the majority of the available talent until and unless I've shown that I simply can't fudge my way into filling the job with the minority of your choice, however underqualified?

Listen, I'm trying to start up a business, not run a snowflake refuge. If your boy can't cope with the variety of people that exist in the real world, and needs to be coddled in an artificial environment populated only by people who remind him of himself, then he just isn't ready for the rough-and-tumble of life in business.

I can't afford to restrict the quality of my team's problem-solving and decision-making to the inferior results you get from a monoculture dominated by whoever shouts the loudest and beats his chest the hardest.

And if he's going to talk over people, disregard their input, or outright bully and/or sexually harrass them because he can't control himself? That makes for a toxic atmosphere where people just don't put their heart into their work, and things are hard enough without putting a saboteur on the payroll. He needs to grow up.

Sorry if this hurts your feelings, but the facts don't care about those. Want your cishet white boys to do well in life? Fix the broken institutions that cripple them from childhood with protectionist policies, and start equipping them with the skills and attitudes they need to cope with the real world.

Oh, and stop trying to turn everything into a competition you can rig. If you want to stand on a podium by yourself with a trophy in your hand, get into athletics or something.