Any broad statements gloss over some nuance, but having been through many of these trainings over the years I’d have to agree with the concerns these articles r

Any broad statements gloss over some nuance, but having been through many of these trainings over the years I’d have to agree with the concerns these articles raise. Blunders like the controversy around promoting “LatinX” as a term and calling people “not inclusive” for saying “Latino” also highlight cases where these programs can actually end up being quite offensive to the very people they claim to be “helping.” That’s all compounded by the fact that DEI leaders often (perhaps unintentionally) create a rather non-inclusive company environments where people with legitimate concerns are terrified of raising concerns about the equity of efforts for fear of retaliation, being labeled various nasty things, and so on. Diversity is extremely important in organizations, but these DEI efforts need some serious inflection and acknowledgment of the harm they may have caused towards the end they claim to be serving.