The coordinated attack on D.E.I. is a vast right wing conspiracy

[Anonymous]

And the NYT brought receipts.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html

Why do conservatives hate America and everything it stands for? Why are they so racist?

[Anonymous]

Where I work, DEI is a bunch of garbage. They keep hiring and promoting based on identity, most often women, and it leads to completely inexperienced staff with gaping holes in backgrounds managing everything. Lol, they just promoted a woman with only 5 years experience right out of grad school to a director level position. Absolute joke when it usually requires 10-15+ years experience, most of which you've at least had multiple years of managing personnel at a middle management level first. Her resume is nothing astounding, yet she's fast tracked to upper manager level positions for God knows why. 100% DEI wokeism garbage at work.

A bunch of mid, unqualified and mediocre women get to benefit these days. It's also funny, because it is often white women too who get the reap the most benefit - they get their white privilege AND can leverage DEI wokeism in their favor by citing something something something about gender.

[Anonymous]

“I was also adamant when directing my HR teams to hire the best candidate who offered the necessary skills and experience to ensure the company was successful regardless of the person’s ethnicity, age, gender, and religion. We would not be forced to hire the wrong person for the job or be constrained by quotas, however if all things were equal, I considered hiring the candidate who is a recognized minority. My axiom has always been to hire for attitude first, experience second, and then education. There needed to be a good fit with the company work ethic and values.


What I learned in my assessment when attending mandatory online DEI sessions taught by company-approved third-party experts was more about what seemed to be a political advocacy movement on behalf of a certain cross-section of people that we were told are oppressed. Now, most employees are supportive with good intentions to participate and help make the environment a positive place to work, however it was very clear that colleagues began to feel uncomfortable as the DEI moderators delivered the message.

Being a white man, I was depicted as the oppressor or perhaps a racist for my skin colour. I wondered how people of colour felt during the session as the oppressed. These were my colleagues and friends, and now there seemed to be a wall of division going up that did not previously exist.

It was made clear that there could not be a status of “not being a racist”, rather you have to be “anti-racist”. In other words, you cannot remain silent, and you are pressured to take action to demonstrate your allegiance to this ideological mantra. This was beginning to make me feel like recruitment for the paramilitary storm troopers, also known as “Brown Shirts”, who organized activities to intimidate opponents and Jews.

Following the moderator’s one-sided accounts of aggression against the oppressed whether through political, criminal, religious, or economic structures, the participants were each put on the spot and asked what they were going to do personally to be considered “anti-racist”. The session swung into an extraordinary awkward moment for participants who attempted to share their next steps to directly advance the DEI ideology. Some participants said they were going to do some serious self-reflection in discovering past shortcomings and find a path forward to change. I avoided being cornered into a commitment and expressed that I would need to think about it.

I was particularly taken when a moderator stated Christianity in large part was a factor in the oppression of minorities. Now, it does not excuse historical crimes against humanity or some bad actors in the church, but it should not permit for a blanket statement against Christianity as a whole without clarifications and perhaps how religious extremism in other parts of the world are far more detrimental to one’s freedom and equality.“

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/01/21/my-dei-experience-it-must-be-removed/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“I was also adamant when directing my HR teams to hire the best candidate who offered the necessary skills and experience to ensure the company was successful regardless of the person’s ethnicity, age, gender, and religion. We would not be forced to hire the wrong person for the job or be constrained by quotas, however if all things were equal, I considered hiring the candidate who is a recognized minority. My axiom has always been to hire for attitude first, experience second, and then education. There needed to be a good fit with the company work ethic and values.


What I learned in my assessment when attending mandatory online DEI sessions taught by company-approved third-party experts was more about what seemed to be a political advocacy movement on behalf of a certain cross-section of people that we were told are oppressed. Now, most employees are supportive with good intentions to participate and help make the environment a positive place to work, however it was very clear that colleagues began to feel uncomfortable as the DEI moderators delivered the message.

Being a white man, I was depicted as the oppressor or perhaps a racist for my skin colour. I wondered how people of colour felt during the session as the oppressed. These were my colleagues and friends, and now there seemed to be a wall of division going up that did not previously exist.

It was made clear that there could not be a status of “not being a racist”, rather you have to be “anti-racist”. In other words, you cannot remain silent, and you are pressured to take action to demonstrate your allegiance to this ideological mantra. This was beginning to make me feel like recruitment for the paramilitary storm troopers, also known as “Brown Shirts”, who organized activities to intimidate opponents and Jews.

Following the moderator’s one-sided accounts of aggression against the oppressed whether through political, criminal, religious, or economic structures, the participants were each put on the spot and asked what they were going to do personally to be considered “anti-racist”. The session swung into an extraordinary awkward moment for participants who attempted to share their next steps to directly advance the DEI ideology. Some participants said they were going to do some serious self-reflection in discovering past shortcomings and find a path forward to change. I avoided being cornered into a commitment and expressed that I would need to think about it.

I was particularly taken when a moderator stated Christianity in large part was a factor in the oppression of minorities. Now, it does not excuse historical crimes against humanity or some bad actors in the church, but it should not permit for a blanket statement against Christianity as a whole without clarifications and perhaps how religious extremism in other parts of the world are far more detrimental to one’s freedom and equality.“

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/01/21/my-dei-experience-it-must-be-removed/

According to Johns Hopkins' chief DEI officer, being middle aged and English speaking is also a privilege and a DEI conflict. Who knew aging and speaking English is now oppression?

I mean Elon couldn't be more correct when he had to dumb it down for people - it is literally a "w*ke mind virus" that is fever pitch at the moment. Zero common sense and ideological brainwashing gone amok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the NYT brought receipts.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html

Why do conservatives hate America and everything it stands for? Why are they so racist?

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[Anonymous]

DEI is the new CRT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where I work, DEI is a bunch of garbage. They keep hiring and promoting based on identity, most often women, and it leads to completely inexperienced staff with gaping holes in backgrounds managing everything. Lol, they just promoted a woman with only 5 years experience right out of grad school to a director level position. Absolute joke when it usually requires 10-15+ years experience, most of which you've at least had multiple years of managing personnel at a middle management level first. Her resume is nothing astounding, yet she's fast tracked to upper manager level positions for God knows why. 100% DEI wokeism garbage at work.

A bunch of mid, unqualified and mediocre women get to benefit these days. It's also funny, because it is often white women too who get the reap the most benefit - they get their white privilege AND can leverage DEI wokeism in their favor by citing something something something about gender.

If what you say is true, the problem is with the application of DEI, not DEI itself.

The general allegation that unqualified people get elevated is generally unfounded and racist/sexist at its core, however. And, as the NYT proves, that is a core piece of disinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Being a white man, I was depicted as the oppressor or perhaps a racist for my skin colour. I wondered how people of colour felt during the session as the oppressed. These were my colleagues and friends, and now there seemed to be a wall of division going up that did not previously exist.

I had to edit out the majority of that entitled butt-hurt prattle to just say what a shining example of white fragility. This guy fancies himself a good person — he very well may be — but has internalized too much and clearly cannot get passed the cognitive dissonance. He takes it sooooo personally and feels personally attacked instead of considering instead how people who HAVE been oppressed feel and look at things.

And yeah, Christianity is pretty much the evil. That’s not exactly in dispute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DEI is the new CRT.

?? That makes no sense even on its face.

Or do you mean politically in terms of bad-faith right wingers inventing phantom menaces?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the NYT brought receipts.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html

Why do conservatives hate America and everything it stands for? Why are they so racist?

The next time you get on an airplane do you want the pilot, crew and air traffic controller to have been hired on merit/qualifications or DEI? I’m guessing you’d go with merit/qualifications. Does that make you racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where I work, DEI is a bunch of garbage. They keep hiring and promoting based on identity, most often women, and it leads to completely inexperienced staff with gaping holes in backgrounds managing everything. Lol, they just promoted a woman with only 5 years experience right out of grad school to a director level position. Absolute joke when it usually requires 10-15+ years experience, most of which you've at least had multiple years of managing personnel at a middle management level first. Her resume is nothing astounding, yet she's fast tracked to upper manager level positions for God knows why. 100% DEI wokeism garbage at work.

A bunch of mid, unqualified and mediocre women get to benefit these days. It's also funny, because it is often white women too who get the reap the most benefit - they get their white privilege AND can leverage DEI wokeism in their favor by citing something something something about gender.

If what you say is true, the problem is with the application of DEI, not DEI itself.

The general allegation that unqualified people get elevated is generally unfounded and racist/sexist at its core, however. And, as the NYT proves, that is a core piece of disinformation.

When you hire someone with only 5 years experience and virtually no years of experience in prior management positions to a director level role while everyone else in a similar position at the director level has had 10-15 years of prior experience managing personnel, it is not racist or sexist to point out the absolute farce that DEI has made in hiring and promotions. I can't wait until the disaster of a hire blows up on the company's face because they have a director who's barely over 30 years old and who has hardly any experience managing personnel or dealing with difficult HR and policy issues that impact the department. Absolute farce. And there are literally dozenss of other internal candidates with many more years worth of experience they could have gone with given the size of the organization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Being a white man, I was depicted as the oppressor or perhaps a racist for my skin colour. I wondered how people of colour felt during the session as the oppressed. These were my colleagues and friends, and now there seemed to be a wall of division going up that did not previously exist.

I had to edit out the majority of that entitled butt-hurt prattle to just say what a shining example of white fragility. This guy fancies himself a good person — he very well may be — but has internalized too much and clearly cannot get passed the cognitive dissonance. He takes it sooooo personally and feels personally attacked instead of considering instead how people who HAVE been oppressed feel and look at things.

And yeah, Christianity is pretty much the evil. That’s not exactly in dispute.

Christianity is the evil in the world?

And it’s not disputed that Christianity is the evil in the world?

Can you explain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI is the new CRT.

?? That makes no sense even on its face.

Or do you mean politically in terms of bad-faith right wingers inventing phantom menaces?

You got it. People got bored with CRT. Need a new boogeyman for the 2024 election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DEI is the new CRT.

?? That makes no sense even on its face.

Or do you mean politically in terms of bad-faith right wingers inventing phantom menaces?

Dp- that should have been obvious

[Anonymous]

I mean Elon couldn't be more correct when he had to dumb it down for people - it is literally a "w*ke mind virus" that is fever pitch at the moment. Zero common sense and ideological brainwashing gone amok.



He’s absolutely correct! A mind virus and a distraction, at best, to keep us from focusing on things far worse.