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They Helped Create DEI–and Even They Say It Needs a Makeover
- Jimmc414 2y agohttps://archive.is/NKob0 https://archive.is/NKob0
- zahlman 2y ago>She says a lot of businesses stumbled in recent years by publicizing demographic targets. Intended to keep companies accountable to the numbers, the goals were easily misconstrued as reverse discrimination. That isn't a misconstrual - except for the part where the term "reverse discrimination" is an invention of activists to mock their critics, not generally used by their critics unless they don't know any better. It's just discrimination. And if you are targeting a demographic ratio, rather than letting your applicants come in as they may and judging them fairly, you are definitionally discriminating. And it is, or at least should be, more than just "legally risky" - if the law, and its underlying moral principle, were taken seriously rather than the legal system being swayed by the same specious arguments. >“By the time the message trickles down, it’s heard as, ‘They won’t hire a white guy,’” she says. We have "white guys" telling us they've been told this, in about as many words, e.g. the story told by Shaun Maguire of Sequoia Capital about his Google experience: https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1736082530573422762 https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1736082530573422762 https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1760872265892458792 https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1760872265892458792 https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1760885099984261564 https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1760885099984261564