A majority of Americans across nearly all demographic groups said DEI initiatives have made no impact on their personal careers, according to a newly released Harris Poll/Axios Vibes survey.
Why it matters: Republican lawmakers and activists have vilified DEI, a term for diversity, equity and inclusion policies used by employers. Companies have responded by rolling back programs.
- Yet Americans — and businesses — have a generally positive to at least indifferent view on the subject.
- On balance, most demographic groups were more likely to say DEI benefited their career than hindered it.
It doesn’t have anything to do with that. You’ve brought things into the discussion that I have not said anything about.
This is the statement that I was responding to:
And I pointed out that it doesn’t always broaden the customer base, it sometimes narrows it. There are customers who will avoid a product that is associated with DEI initiatives.
I’m not saying they should or shouldn’t. I’m not even saying why they would avoid it, or why they would claim to avoid it. Just that in some situations DEI initiatives don’t broaden the customer base.
You literally said that:
So again, what does this have to do with the talent of actors in movies?
Oh, I think I may have figured out where the misunderstanding lies. You think that when I said “poor performances” I was talking about acting performances. I was talking about performance at the box office.
Studios don’t really care about the quality of the performance, they just care about the profit.
Ah, okay. I get it now. Thanks for clearing that up.
No problem. Didn’t occur to me that “performance” had a double meaning when it came to commercial media like TV and movies.