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[quote=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/

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