The fundamental observation that many kinds of prejudices that continue for generations create lasting harm for those that have been prejudiced against and thei

The fundamental observation that many kinds of prejudices that continue for generations create lasting harm for those that have been prejudiced against and their descendants is kind of self-evident. The “woke” or DEI mindset is as far as I can tell, in origin basically about acknowledging that. Then all sorts of things, including social media pressures, combined with grievance and resentment have led people really far astray in their attempts to “make things right”. So I understand the visceral reaction the words can cause for some people, and partly agree. However, the underlying observation is true, and if one for example were looking for a candidate and would, inspired by this observation, spend extra effort to advertise to certain groups, then that would be a pretty sensible DEI implementation. Any sort of relaxed standards or claims that math is racist or something is bad however. Racial or gender quotas are also dangerous, if they’re used it needs to be very careful and temporary. I do feel that while this sort of stupid stuff obviously happens, is discriminatory and very bad, and should be stopped, it is probably being blown out of proportion as part of a bigger political fight.