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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In practice, DEI training effectively tells whites, Latinos, Asians, Middle Easterners, Pacific Islanders and the gazillions of people who are mixed-race that they are "part of the problem." It's effectively a black supremacy movement. For years everyone kept their mouths shut lest they be accused of racism. Instead, DEI training has been met with eye-rolling and resentment for the colossal waste of time that performative virtue signaling always is. Companies are rightfully scrambling to finally get rid of the DEI nonsense. And any company or organization that remains tethered to the DEI time-suck and discriminatory hiring/promotions that goes with it is going to have a hard time attracting talent going forward.[/quote]

I think a lot of DEI efforts really, really depend on the facilitators. My org switched to a different company for DEI training and I cannot overstate the difference. With the first company, it turned into this awful sharing of past traumas many felt compelled to share but did not really want to revisit. And then the conversation was strong-armed by (white) staff who turned it into a discussion about how our industry is underpaid, so therefore we are ALL victims being denied equity. The second company my org hired was incredible and gave us so much structure and different ways of discussing the issues in our organization. They got leadership to listen, and I have already seen some impact since.

Also the way management decides to implement DEI makes a big difference as well. For example, at my org none of it is mandatory. And so the people who are showing up are the ones who have already been “doing the work” or are interested in understanding where their blind spots are and how we can challenge our deep-seated assumptions about people different from us, whichever “side” you’re on. And the men who have actually said racist things to me never attend.[/quote]

Sharing past trauma at work is just a terrible idea for anyone. I thought everyone knew to make up a fake, innocuous story so the DEI consultant could move on. That's how people survived the last inquisition anyways.[/quote]
Yeah - it was the first one we did, implemented quickly over Zoom during the pandemic. People learned and/or quit [/quote]

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