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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is just a question of perspective. For the brief year or two when DEI was everything, if you were white or Asian or Hispanic, especially a male, it seemed like every job or promotion in [b]Fortune 500 companies or government was fixated on black folks, who were often unqualified or mediocre. [/b]So that led to some resentment. Because it wasn't about talent, but only race. Which I get from the black perspective. It's like, duh, welcome to the last 450 years. But it is 2025, and the sense is merit is a better way to do things than race-based hiring preferences.

And people go primal when it comes to livelihoods and their ability to feed their families. So I'm not surprised there was a huge shift among white, asian, and Hispanic men toward Republicans in the last election. Democrats aren't their party. Race-based hiring was garbage in 1825,1925, and 2025. So people will gravitate to organizations and companies that value talent, regardless of racial or ethnic background. And there are tons of great black professionals. But when people get prioritized for things they can't do anything about - race, gender, ethnicity - there's going to be a reaction among the unchosen people.

That's a sweeping assumption that tells me 1) like most people, you don't understand what DEI means (to be fair, there are probably hiring managers who don't either and think it means some kind of vague quota system) 2)you really don't have specific facts to back that up, and it's mostly about people mistaking their feelings for reality.

From a January Forbes article:

Before DEI, a person’s career success (hiring, placement, portfolio projects, raises and promotions) might not have anything to do with merit. You could solely—and immediately—be included or excluded in the candidate pool based on nothing more than your gender, race, ethnicity, age, looks, friendships, family money, etc.

DEI has been designed and put in place to prevent this when possible. But even with DEI in place, it’s too often the case that meritless considerations are used to help people get ahead in life and in their careers. By meritless, I mean circumstances that have nothing to do with performance, knowledge, skills, abilities or education such as who you know, who they know, political affiliations, family legacy programs, beauty and attractiveness, transactional power plays, etc.

DEI isn’t about quotas. This is what people get wrong. DEI is not about putting unqualified people in jobs or hiring individuals because of gender, ethnicity, race, age, sexual preference, etc. It’s about hiring individuals—because they are highly qualified—regardless of their gender, ethnicity, race, age, sexual preference, etc. And, it’s about doing so with the knowledge that many people have historically been marginalized and disregarded as suitable job candidates precisely because of these factors.

Trump's administration is a very good example of a meritless system.
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And yet black sat scores at top schools are 200 points lower than Asian sat scores.  [/quote]

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