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[quote=Anonymous]I guarantee you that regardless of how poor or how limited resources you have, a person ambitious for success will find a way to achieve it.  DEI or not :) I say this as someone who is a minority with immigrant parents who owns her own business. What we should do in the education front is find a way to take out the demographic piece altogether and simply judge on merit.  If it's 90% non minorities who are the top 10% of the class so be it.  You simply can't let someone else in just because they aren't white if they couldn't find a way to be up there.  This is why this country really is failing.  You can't limit anyone - not minorities but why would you limit white kids either? Simply because they are white? You have to work.  Doesn't matter about anything else - you find a path for success.  It's 100% doable if you commit.  My whole childhood was a nightmare and I did it and I know many more who did too.  The old boys network exists because it's a cultural decision.  I worked in a field dominated by this and DEI doesn't make it better.  You change it from the inside out.  If the guys won't let me in as a female telling them they have to does not change their minds.  Only I can impress them by my talents.  And if I can't, I can't. Better to find another world where my efforts are appreciated.  But allowing me entrance into a male dominated field doesn't do it - me breaking in and changing their minds so they see why it's right and better to let women in - that is effective and the right kind of change.  That's called buy-in and there's many ways of achieving that over DEI policies which essentially is reverse discrimination. It's to rid people of guilt and take an easier path to change.  Great in the beginning maybe but ultimately it's not lasting. [/quote]

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