> Making the talk proposal process blind seems more like meritocracy than DEI ... I mean, that's because they're the same thing, presuming that you use the lit

> Making the talk proposal process blind seems more like meritocracy than DEI ... I mean, that's because they're the same thing, presuming that you use the literal definition of 'meritocracy'. Now, 'meritocracy' is sometimes used to mean "only hire straight white guys who went to one of about four universities", but that it is being used as a euphemism, not in its literal meaning (however, these days it is so often used in that euphemistic sense that it has become honestly pretty pointless as a term.)