Progress threatens the profoundly mediocre.

To answer the last sentence: literally Nazis

I mean the very simple answer they’ll have to any point you make is “it’s a lie told by <opposition> to get <what they want> unfairly and/or illegally.”

Which is why earnest discussion is so difficult. Neither side can really trust that the other side to use words that match intent. I, for sure, don’t trust anything a Right-leaning pundit says about their reasons for legislative positions.

I’m in a red area and most of the pushback I hear is about equity. They’re all for equality/equal opportunities but don’t support guaranteeing equal outcomes. Whatever that means. I’m just trying to answer your question from the end of your comment because I’ve heard people say that.

The country is a racist shithole, and more people than you might think are essentially closeted bigots, unless they think you’re some ally, oh boy will they open up and it gets uncomfortable.

If they keep picking White Men, how are minorities supposed to feel like a part of the country?

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

I fully agree and in typical American fashion, affirmative action and DEI were just bandaids to quickly solve some of the effects of institutional discrimination, instead of solving it at the root.

Even I, as a very progressive person, don’t like some DEI hires. But the actual problematic DEI hires are not talented people like Kamala Harris. They are connected incompetent people.

I think Clarence Thomas would be a good example. By most accounts he is the most corrupt and incompetent justice, who just happened to run in the right conservative circles.

In the business world, I also see quite a lot of well-connected incompetent people. It used to be white gulf buddies, now it tends to be the white sister-of, or the latina wife-of, the gulf buddy.

Maybe the Trump kids are the best example of DEI hires. Ivanka Trump, anyone?

Surprisingly, they don’t. Well, the ones who enact / reject these policies do, but the layman doesn’t. It’s incredibly frustrating to have friends and co-workers who reject the explanation for why DEI matters and is important

People denied COVID was real whilst gargling their own lungs. What the fuck would it take to convince you these assholes aren’t secretly well-informed?

female run office spaces

The worst places I have worked at had female leadership and majority women employees. The gossip and bullying was off the scale. Older ladies harassing young men was a daily occurrence and laughed at.

But the ascent is something I’ve literally heard mentioned by white owners. When they hired their first non-white employee they made a point of mentioning how easy he was to understand.

This isn’t even true though. Hiring is done by people who have implicit biases and subconscious preferences. When a hiring committee has no diversity, the people hired tend to be less diverse than the average.

The issue is, in practically, resumes don’t have all indicators of race or gender removed.

There have been several studies that suggest that the name on the resume is enough of an indicator of race and gender to let bias creep in. Even on otherwise identical resumes. I’m not sure if we’re going to remove names from resumes any time soon.

Many people beed tk realize the reality that a lot of the interactions we are seeing on mainstream social media platforms especially x/ twitter whatever the fuck its called now, is heavily manipulated by imperial actors such as the company team Jorge which is a mossad run bot farm out of israel that for a price (or even for free depending on the cause, floods platforms with fake engagement meant to make conservatism Look more popular than it truly is to manufacture consent and confuse/ wear down people attempting to dialogue and potentially even convince uninformed people consuming this state propaganda to support fascism/ conservatism.

I preferred hiring people that I knew were good workers or were referred to me by people I trusted to have good judgement over someone who was maybe better on paper.

An unfortunate side effect of that is my social circle early in my career was mostly other white people.

Right, and your statement proves that individual racism isn’t required for oppresion to exist, cuz you’re pretty much defining systemic racism. Many white people don’t know many POC because of deliberate, decades-long systemic segregation practices (e.g red-lining) that push us towards race-defined classes.

This misses the point entirely.

DEI is about finding the best candidate for the job, and paying them fair wages.

What you’re describing is literally anti-DEI. Musk and Trump have both been open about using the H-1B visa program to find foreign workers who will work cheaply, and they do it so that they don’t have to pay American workers a fair amount.

This is the direction Google was heading anyway. More H1-B visas. More precarious employment for developers. More downward pressure on wages. Longer hours. Shittier living conditions. Eat the Bugs. Live in the Pod. Then spend your free time telling people to Like, Subscribe, and Share your 10 Neat Tricks on how they can make it all the way to the “coding goon for a defunct software company” proletariat high water mark.

The presence or absence of DEI was always just window dressing for shit these companies wanted to do anyway. DEI never really worked save as a means of shoving off the then-current administration’s interrogation of Silicon Valley business practice. Now that the old Bidencrats are gone and the new Trumpocrats are in, its time to say “Actually all the Vivek Ramaswamy clones we’re importing are part of the MAGA vision and they always have been”.

If you think DEI is Marxism in disguise you know neither what it nor Marxism actually are.

Your first link really reads as conspiracy theory, Ive yet to meet a Marxist HR department

Stalin was not the best example of Marxism. Stalin was a megalomaniac that killed a political rival that wasn’t a threat just because he once was a threat.

The term kulak was older than Stalin.

And the last part is a bookcase whataboutism.

As a socialist citizen of a Nordic state, the Nordic model is a wonderful example of socialism in practice. The US, even with full DEI implementation, would be nowhere near as socialist as the Nordic countries.

This might be the most insane take i read all day

I’m getting reports on you. It’s a fine line between disinformation that sounds “smart” and breaking the rules. I’m pulling it because it’s not being excellent to the people it effects.

You’re muddying the waters. If you want to have a discussion, stop giving it a volatile label. Regardless of your point, your label has me involved now.

What’s the Kremlin like?

Shut up, Nazi

“They hated him, for he told them the truth.”