Please explain to me how having diversity, equity, and inclusive is discrimination?
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Same way that Volkswagen’s “Clean Diesel” campaign was about clean diesel.
Sure if hiring practices aren’t really a meritocracy I agree with what you suggest.
Please tell me how companies having diversity, equity, and inclusive hiring practices are being racist and sexist?
False equivalence.
Show your evidence that any of said issues are directly attributable to any sort of DEI program, instead of the thousands of other multivariate factors that could contribute to those issues—you can’t.
You’re just making an assumption based on your own biases, and then creating scapegoats by accepting your own false premise as defacto truth.
Unless, of course…you have access to the resumes, GPAs, and performance reviews of Apple employees.
Oh, you don’t? Then you don’t know what has contributed to those issues at all.
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"DEI will be seen as human slavery was"
Even attempting to equivocate these two things shows a total lack of understanding of both
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Gotta love the responses that really demonstrate White Fragility Syndrome
I like how you didn’t answer the question and brought up something completely random that has nothing to do with the conversation.
Research, smesearch…it’s emotional assessments based on preconceived notions all the way down.
They never have data, their best “evidence” is “…well, if you don’t think that’s how it is…I don’t know what to tell you.”
Seriously, ask any of them 2+ follow-up questions and explain how any of the things they’re complaining about work in detail, and they will always fall back on that hollow canard.
Feel free to link to data that supports your position.
If you're right, then women and minorities should be making more than white men with similar qualifications in companies with DEI programs. But, of course, that's not true. While DEI closes some of the gap, racist (your word) hiring practices still favor white men.
Just get rid of the rules and conduct business as usual. If equity is already embedded in the company culture there is no need for a doctrine. Tim has his marching orders, this is just for show. Carry on Apple, and focus on innovation like perhaps adding yet another iPhone model.
If the people concerned about DEI’s impacts put the same level of concern into other areas, like school shootings, just imagine how much we could improve things!
But alas, people can only worry about things that they believe impacts their entitlement.
But alas, people can only worry about things that they believe impacts their entitlement.
Culture plays a huge factor in achievement, absolutely. My wife is a teacher and what you’re describing is a contrast she sees too, immigrants in general btw, no matter race or ethnicity, tend to (not always of course, just a general trend) be more driven to succeed academically, more pushed to it by family that wants them to do better in this new place, than native born folks. It’s a huge factor in us being a “nation of immigrants”. Immigrants usually see education as the silver bullet to success.
But it’s also worth remembering that that cultural divide, be it a white kid in Appalachia whose family eschews education because the path to success for them was dropping out at 17 to work in the coal mine (and as a result the locals deprioritized spending on education for generations, affecting now) or an african american kid whose family was so stopped by structural racism for centuries in seeking education, and whose family’s educational opportunities were even more restricted even in recent times by practices such as redlining, that they turned to other avenues as potential success, or women of any ethnicity who were told until recently their only place was in the home and kitchen and only in living memory have gained ability to do things like open a credit card in their own name and still, to this day, are often discouraged out of STEM fields, or etc often come, as I noted in this giant run on sentence from vast historical trends that need vast resources to change
The only entity with those kinds of resources is the federal government. That’s what the dept of ed on the federal level’s job actually is btw - working to reverse the effects of historical discrimination or factors and working to stop instances of current discrimination and factors that leads to some groups of folks eschewing education, be it culturally or through lack of access or both
And no one is going to gaslight me into thinking this post was some sort of order. An opinion, public urging or recommendation does not carry the weight of an official order that a company (Apple in this case) do something.
I have no problem with people criticizing Trump's, or any other president's, opinions on things but don't label them as orders when they are only opinions, recommendations, etc. For those who don't like Trump and/or his policies, there should be plenty of things to take issue with (the guy is running a mile a minute right now) but don't waste time and energy arguing that a social media post was actually an order. As I said, presidents and other elected officials have been expressing opinions and recommendations about activities in the private sector for ages and will continue to do so.
Please, in your own words, describe how the person you were responding to, was Marxist in their statement. I’m genuinely curious what you imagine Marxist means
It should be illegal to have hiring policies that discriminate based on skin color or gender.
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Ah, so you support diversity, equity, and inclusion then
It is. Which is why companies have DEI programs to mitigate the illegal discrimination.
ITT folks who could benefit from reading The Lavender Scare by David Johnson.
One thing that has been surprising but not shocking about this administration is the reach of the state into the private sector. Even during the Red Scare (which was a direct follow on/overlapped with the Lavender Scare) the state used its coercive power of military contracts to change hiring practices and discrimination in the private sector but didn't explicitly take the approach this article focuses on. This is a lot more naked.
One thing that has been surprising but not shocking about this administration is the reach of the state into the private sector. Even during the Red Scare (which was a direct follow on/overlapped with the Lavender Scare) the state used its coercive power of military contracts to change hiring practices and discrimination in the private sector but didn't explicitly take the approach this article focuses on. This is a lot more naked.