@forse @isaackuo @dalias @MikeMorris The opposite of DEI isn't meritocracy. It's PNC: Prejudice, Nepotism, and Cronyism.
What does non-DEI hiring look like?
Don Jr, Ivanka, and Jared Kushner in senior roles.
Lachlan Murdoch running News Corp.
JD Vance's new press secretary, Buckley Carlson: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/tucker-carlsons-son-buckley-secures-key-white-house-role-igniting-nepotism-row-101738055939678.html
Clearly noone would say these non-DEI hires were solely on merit.
And that's what DEI does: It counterbalances the advantages that nepobabies have through prejudice, nepotism, and cronyism.
It gives people who are working class, women, or non-white a fighting chance to be hired on merit over a crony or a nepobaby.
There's another side to DEI beyond hiring.
It's about preventing racial and religious vilification in the workforce.
It's about preventing sexual harassment in the workforce.
It's about preventing bullying, including homophobic and transphobic vilification, in the workforce.
Take a look at the lawsuits Tesla and SpaceX have settled to see what a workforce without those guardrails looks like.
Does anyone genuinely think a workplace would be more productive if people regularly shout out the N-word?
If female staff are being pressured into sex by bosses?
If gay, lesbian, and trans staff are being physically threatened because of who they are?
That's why we need DEI.
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