> Yet you see folks in her dismiss any arguments against DEI as boogeyman of right-wing pundits. I don't know how "right-wing" became a slur, but it's unhealth

> Yet you see folks in her dismiss any arguments against DEI as boogeyman of right-wing pundits. I don't know how "right-wing" became a slur, but it's unhealthy for people to hold their opposition with such low regard. Progressive politics (typically left-leaning) is the idea of making "progress" (read: change), so most issues raised if not implemented or occurring already, will occur in the near future. Conservative politics (typically right-leaning) is the idea of conserving the current way of life, but they are rarely successful and only serve to slow down policies. Conservatism for the most part is a mostly liberal position. Most honest people would agree there is a great advantage to making change slowly and carefully - all the longest living institutions (up until recently) survived by doing this. The problem in the US is that conservatism is also conflated with lots of other random ideas, like religion and right-wing policies (anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, etc). There's no way to vote for the parts you like without voting for the parts you don't like.