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The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege

27 points by version_five 3y ago

oatmeal1 3y ago
https://archive.ph/zTHcM https://archive.ph/zTHcM
paulddraper 3y ago
> Even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush...after the murder of George Floyd...a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations Indeed. "These riots really shouldn't surprise you. It is hard to know exactly who is responsible for these sad changes to America, but it is easy to see who is benefiting from them. They are the same people lecturing you about white privilege and systemic racism. "This isn't accidental. CitiBank is happy to put Black Lives Matter logos on their Instagram page precisely so you won't ask what interest rates they are charging black people. If you really cared about the poor, you wouldn't crush them with debt they can't afford to. Of course if you really cared about black lives, you wouldn't put abortion clinics in black neighborhoods but they do. "These people are scam artists. They are playing you."
- stemlord 3y ago
  Wokewashing
- mindslight 3y ago
  Your quote is a great demonstration of why it is so hard to push back against the con artists running these terrible gold rushes. It takes legitimate criticisms, and uses them to indict and reject the entire subject (rather than merely its excesses). It would be fantastic if the purported "law and order" and "second amendment" crowds were to practice what they preach, look at the terrible injustice of summary executions by cops, sometimes for nothing more than exercising one's natural right to self defense, and came away demanding that cops be held subject to the same laws as everyone else. But no, the topic is just used as an exercise in the just world theory and a jumping board for justifying the different flavor of authoritarianism pushed by the "alternative" political party. And then tops it off with a nonsensical reference to abortion to continue preaching to its choir, as if saddling someone with an unwanted child is in any way caring about either of their lives. Sorry, these "opposing" camps of political hacks support each other in yin-yang and your referencing of one is nothing but a contribution to the problem described in the article.
  - paulddraper 3y ago
    > It would be fantastic if the purported "law and order" and "second amendment" crowds were to practice what they preach, look at the terrible injustice of summary executions by cops It happens, though I too wish that would happen more. E.g. In 2020, right-wing Senator Rand Paul created the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, prohibiting no knock warrants. [1] Unfortunately, it got relatively little support. There are legitimate issues with law enforcement practices, but unfortunately the Floyd case was popularized as a race war. The race angle is a false narrative aimed at stoking anger and controversy. [1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3955 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/395...
    - mindslight 3y ago
      Yes, there are opportunists at every level. The gifters selling DEI-washing to industry as talked about in this article. The yellow journalists doing things like framing murdering police as primarily a race problem rather than focusing on the utter lack of accountability of police not being bound by the same laws as everyone else. And that is exactly the crowd you chose to quote! Legitimate criticism squandered on bootstrapping more anti-productive culture war garbage. But tune in tomorrow at the same time to get riled up again. Tucker Carson is not some opposite of DEI grifters - rather they're both peas from the same damn pod. Sure, there are tiny bits of principled actions in each party's muck (although I've seen far fewer principled actions from Rand Paul than I remember from his father). The problem is what is given play in the greater tribe, with the media and organizations leading them to stupid places. For example, what has the NRA said about Taylor or Locke, on what is essentially the most important second amendment issue of our time? Crickets! Because acknowledging the other team might have a point wouldn't sell memberships. But never forget, tHeY aRe cOmINg tO tAkE yOuR gUNs!

27 points by version_five 3y ago

https://archive.ph/zTHcM https://archive.ph/zTHcM

> Even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush...after the murder of George Floyd...a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations Indeed. "These riots really shouldn't surprise you. It is hard to know exactly who is responsible for these sad changes to America, but it is easy to see who is benefiting from them. They are the same people lecturing you about white privilege and systemic racism. "This isn't accidental. CitiBank is happy to put Black Lives Matter logos on their Instagram page precisely so you won't ask what interest rates they are charging black people. If you really cared about the poor, you wouldn't crush them with debt they can't afford to. Of course if you really cared about black lives, you wouldn't put abortion clinics in black neighborhoods but they do. "These people are scam artists. They are playing you."

stemlord 3y ago
Wokewashing
mindslight 3y ago
Your quote is a great demonstration of why it is so hard to push back against the con artists running these terrible gold rushes. It takes legitimate criticisms, and uses them to indict and reject the entire subject (rather than merely its excesses). It would be fantastic if the purported "law and order" and "second amendment" crowds were to practice what they preach, look at the terrible injustice of summary executions by cops, sometimes for nothing more than exercising one's natural right to self defense, and came away demanding that cops be held subject to the same laws as everyone else. But no, the topic is just used as an exercise in the just world theory and a jumping board for justifying the different flavor of authoritarianism pushed by the "alternative" political party. And then tops it off with a nonsensical reference to abortion to continue preaching to its choir, as if saddling someone with an unwanted child is in any way caring about either of their lives. Sorry, these "opposing" camps of political hacks support each other in yin-yang and your referencing of one is nothing but a contribution to the problem described in the article.
- paulddraper 3y ago
  > It would be fantastic if the purported "law and order" and "second amendment" crowds were to practice what they preach, look at the terrible injustice of summary executions by cops It happens, though I too wish that would happen more. E.g. In 2020, right-wing Senator Rand Paul created the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, prohibiting no knock warrants. [1] Unfortunately, it got relatively little support. There are legitimate issues with law enforcement practices, but unfortunately the Floyd case was popularized as a race war. The race angle is a false narrative aimed at stoking anger and controversy. [1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3955 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/395...
  - mindslight 3y ago
    Yes, there are opportunists at every level. The gifters selling DEI-washing to industry as talked about in this article. The yellow journalists doing things like framing murdering police as primarily a race problem rather than focusing on the utter lack of accountability of police not being bound by the same laws as everyone else. And that is exactly the crowd you chose to quote! Legitimate criticism squandered on bootstrapping more anti-productive culture war garbage. But tune in tomorrow at the same time to get riled up again. Tucker Carson is not some opposite of DEI grifters - rather they're both peas from the same damn pod. Sure, there are tiny bits of principled actions in each party's muck (although I've seen far fewer principled actions from Rand Paul than I remember from his father). The problem is what is given play in the greater tribe, with the media and organizations leading them to stupid places. For example, what has the NRA said about Taylor or Locke, on what is essentially the most important second amendment issue of our time? Crickets! Because acknowledging the other team might have a point wouldn't sell memberships. But never forget, tHeY aRe cOmINg tO tAkE yOuR gUNs!