DEI doesn't affect who gets hired at all. If someone hires based on race, sex,etc... that's a blatant violation of the law. DEI just means making people who are

DEI doesn't affect who gets hired at all. If someone hires based on race, sex,etc... that's a blatant violation of the law. DEI just means making people who are not in the majority group of the country feel welcome and included in the organization. It would be ridiculous to hire or keep employed someone based on their biological characteristics instead of value to the business. What I suspect everyone already knows is that the anti-DEI initiative is designed to do the opposite of what DEI was intended to do, make those same people feel unwelcome in society altogether. Look at musk's track record and racism lawsuits against him. Personally, I found DEI stuff very boring and performative, I don't enjoy it at all. However, I would have to be naive and ignorant to pretend that it didn't actually make people feel welcome and included. Think about the society these people are trying to create. in 1-2 decades, minorities will become the majority, short of a genocide this trend cannot be reversed. Now imagine a country where the majority of the population is explicitly disenfranchised and excluded from government and any decent job. This really scary stuff guys, there are now several different paths the country is most likely to take that all lead to a social collapse and a civil war. Not a fun time to be young at all. I'm just going to assume anyone in a position of power (talking about CEO's and founders that lurk here!!) that isn't actively speaking out against the white supremacists in power is in bed with them. What's more confusing is musk claiming americans aren't smart enough for tech jobs and wants more H1B hires but they're against making those minorities (immigrants or not) welcome (which is all DEI does). I'll even go further than that. I expect everyone to be welcome in the workplace and government. if these white supremacists feel like white people are not being included then I really think they should implement affirmative action like policies benefiting white people that are legitimately being left out of schools,jobs,etc.. No problem with that at all. But please pay attention to this, they are not doing things to benefit white americans but rather to harm non-white americans. They are not acting to benefit their group but to harm other groups. There are plenty of impoverished mostly white places in America that need colleges, better schools, better infrastructure and social safety-nets. There are programs that pay people to immigrate to places like south dakota and the rust belt to be employed as doctors and even factory workers (the later, because of rampant illegal drug usage which could be solved by treatment focused approaches).