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Wouldn't lose much either. I'd argue they'd gain face in today's climate. "DEI best practices aren't just for white people anymore" is probably a good look.

• rayiner 4y ago
  Ironically it tends to be high caste Indians who push this stuff (perhaps because of higher education levels). Maybe they’ll be circumspect about dishing it out to white people after some sessions having to confess their “Brahmin privilege.”
  • laretluval 4y ago
    I predict they’ll love the opportunity to indulge in theatrical ethnomasochism, just like high status whites do.
    • rayiner 4y ago
      I don’t know. Maybe that’s a Puritan thing.
    • ummonk 4y ago
      In a way, atoning for privilege will allow them to signal their privileged status more openly, and try to angle for acceptance into high status white culture, because they're just like them.
  • zmgsabst 4y ago
    Discussing your “privilege” while inflicting the costs to atone for it on others is the humble-brag version of racism: Wealthy whites are all too happy to brag about their privileges, while discriminating against poor whites to “atone” for that.
  • tablespoon 4y ago
    >> Wouldn't lose much either. I'd argue they'd gain face in today's climate. "DEI best practices aren't just for white people anymore" is probably a good look. > Ironically it tends to be high caste Indians who push this stuff (perhaps because of higher education levels). High caste Indian immigrants or their American children? I have trouble imagining someone raised outside of the American cultural context getting enthusiastic about DEI in that way.
    • washbrain 4y ago
      You don't think there are folks in India interested in discussing DEI with respect to caste or colorism? What about in the EU? You don't think there are people there enthusiastically discussing DEI?
      • teakettle42 4y ago
        “DEI” is both a very recent and a uniquely western ideological construction.
        • ska 4y ago
          Dalit activism has been a thing in India for many decades.
          • tablespoon 4y ago
            > Dalit activism has been a thing in India for many decades. I was specifically talking about the performative white liberal guilt thing, which "high caste Indians who push this stuff" brought to mind. It totally makes sense that lower-class/caste people would be pushing for equality, wherever they are.
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        • kaesar14 4y ago
          DEI is just rebranding of the struggle for equality, in which the fight against casteism has been raging for decades. This is a very western centric view.
          • teakettle42 4y ago
            DEI is intersectional praxis, not a “rebranding of the struggle for equality”