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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an Asian female and despise DEI.  That being said, I despise Trump and his admin even more!

To me, DEI as a concept is wrong.  Merit has to come first.  Always.  A person will succeed but it has to be on their efforts not because they are white or black or yellow or whatever. DEI is an insult to anyone who has any self respect and most people who are condoning it are white who think they know why it's important.  I've never met a self respecting minority who wholly embraces DEI because they would not be judged on their merits but many of course love that they don't need to be and that's why it can exist.

I don't agree either with Miller's ilk pushing this in a manner that's strong arming those in leadership.  It ought to be a debated policy change.  I don't think it hurts whites as much as it's unfair to them and unfair to anyone who cares about merit. [b]But taking down this policy isn't about ordering it, rather needs to be a process that isn't based on fear tactics.[/b]

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I agree with the bolded. The precedent that has been set in terms of government overreach and use of fear tactics is what bothers me the most about this case.

On the DEI issue, if you are Asian then at some point in time someone in your family line came from a largely homogenous Asian country. My roots are in a super homogenous European country where university admission is entirely based on performance on a single annual university entry exam--and nothing else. That's probably also the case in the Asian country(its) your relatives came from. But the US's experience is very different. It is a country of immigrants and has a history of forced migration (slavery), so it is very different than more homogenous countries that haven't had this experience. Can you understand why the approach here might be different and why addressing differences in access to employment, college admission, etc. may be necessary in such a heterogenous society?[/quote]

It has been over 150 years since the emancipation of slaves.  
It has been over 50 years since the civil rights movement.
Immigrants frequently come to this country with little to nothing and achieve success. 
I don't know of many other places in this world where this is true.
So, no I do not understand why there have to be racial preferences that mostly help african and Caribbean immigrants over the descendants of slaves and help hispanics more frequently than the asians they used to lynch.[/quote]

Why, then, does the following wage gap exist between WHITE MEN and the following categories of people?

Women (overall): 83 cents (17% gap)

White women: 83 cents (17% gap)

Black women: 70 cents (30% gap)

Hispanic women: 65 cents (35% gap)

Asian women: 93 cents (7% gap)

Black men: 73 cents (27% gap)

Hispanic men: 69 cents (31% gap)

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