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The "anit-DEI stuff" is the same as the DEI stuff from before this administration: performative. Originally DEI was because the people demanded it of companies,
by skizm 1y ago
The "anit-DEI stuff" is the same as the DEI stuff from before this administration: performative. Originally DEI was because the people demanded it of companies, now the anti-DEI version is because the administration will make your life hell if you don't fall in line.
Personally I fully agree that building a diverse workforce is more profitable in the long run than ignoring diversity (unless your company will die in the short term because of political pressure).
- rayiner 1y agoDo you think people who have different skin colors do their jobs differently? Can you articulate how you think your white workers do their jobs differently than say your hispanic workers?
- skizm 1y agoIf you’re a cog stamper, probably doesn’t matter, but if you think for a living and need to generate ideas ever, diverse perspectives are invaluable. It’s the exact same as biology: bio diverse environments always outperform homogeneous ones. You can adapt to way more situations. If everyone thinks the same, and has roughly the same life experiences, when you hit a situation one person can’t think their way out of, no one will be able to because you’re all roughly the same. “Outside the box thinking” is cliche for a reason: it’s a good thing everyone wants but is hard to capture. Diverse workforce is a more reliable way to capture it.
- rayiner 1y ago[flagged]
- computerthings 1y ago[dead]
- gardenhedge 1y agoDisagree. You can have a team of similar life experiences that considers other life experiences.
- jdgoesmarching 1y agoEveryone does their jobs differently due to innumerable variables, including life experience and cultural background. What exactly are you trying to accomplish here? Your bad faith anti-DEI rants are basically half this thread.
- rayiner 1y agoI’m trying to establish what people think “diversity” means. The foundational premise of the civil rights movement is that race is a superficial characteristic and people are the same. Accepting that as true, the concept of “diversity” makes sense only as a confirmation about the absence of irrational racial discrimination. But OP suggested that diversity itself was a good thing, which makes no sense because racial differences aren’t meaningful. All else being equal, it’s not possible for a “racially diverse” team to function differently than a racially homogenous one.
- wredcoll 1y ago> All else being equal, it’s not possible for a “racially diverse” team to function differently than a racially homogenous one. And if all horses are perfectly spherical, they'd be awfully hard to ride. The plain fact is that people are discriminated, for and against, based solely on their appearance. It happens today and it sure happened 100 years ago.
- rayiner 1y ago> The plain fact is that people are discriminated, for and against, based solely on their appearance. It happens today and it sure happened 100 years ago. What does that have to do with how someone does their job?
- wredcoll 1y agoThe subject is preferential admission to harvard, what do you mean who does a job?
- hackable_sand 1y agoYou are obsessed with race. It's weird.
- rayiner 1y ago[flagged]
- roenxi 1y agoI'd agree with that if you meant "you" as in the US public. It is difficult to respond to a DEI comment without acknowledging that racialist logic is a pretty major factor of DEI policy and it is unfortunate that race discrimination remains a political colossus despite some sterling efforts to weaken it. The fight against racism will always be an ongoing one.
- swat535 1y agoIsn’t it a bit odd to dismiss discussions that focus on race, when DEI by definition centers on factors like race, gender, and ethnicity? If the goal is to address inequality across these lines, shouldn’t that require a strong focus, some might say an obsession, with those very attributes?
- wredcoll 1y agoYou know, and I know, and literally everybody in this thread knows, that race is a an imperfect proxy for other things. Why keep trotting this out like you're going to really get someone with it?
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- VoodooJuJu 1y ago[dead]