I would love to hear your experiences and your thoughts on this topic. If you have pro-DEI or anti-DEI positions, I will read them, consider them and respect your right to your own opinion.
My position is that I’m anti-DEI as I consider it a form of discrimination against white males and also consider it very deceptive. I’m open to discussing it!
Long and short of it is
Black people move from the South to Northern cities during Jim Crow/already lived in the area with the densest population (because everyone did) >
White people move away from cities (including those in the north) during desegregation (some suburbs still have bylaws that forbid nonwhites from living there!), but still opt to work in said cities >
Schools are established in the newly built suburb communities that are paid for by suburb’s homeowner taxes >
The people left to pick up the tax burden for the schools are those that remained in the cities >
Schools become hilariously defunded that you can actually measure someone’s potential income by their ZIP code >
Measures were put in place so that those from these schools might actually have a shot at getting into college, because underfunded schools dont exactly lead to competitive college candidates >
Around the mid-2000s a bunch of conservatives and radio shock jocks pushed the narrative that “they are forcing white people out of college/[insert skilled field here]” which evolved to “white people are at a disadvantage when getting into college/[insert skilled field here]” which evolved to “they are letting ‘non-qualified’ people get into college/[insert skilled field here]”
Lol. Did you not follow the recent Supreme Court case dealing with race based admissions at universities? The bias that administrators were showing in favor of URMs was extreme
One reason why I made this community is because on a GRE subreddit, the mod would actually lock threads that even talked about how URMs can get accepted into graduate programs with low scores compared to whites and Asians
So I will give you credit for explaining everything in a step by step fashion, but it’s a fact that university administrators were weighting candidates based on race, which, thankfully, was recently made illegal.
I also would like to point out that I haven’t attacked you for your position, yet if I were to explain my own anti dei position, I’m at risk of being fired from my job, doxxed, etc. So the spirit of free speech is essentially dead when it comes to anything surrounding “people of color” or any other group that gets to claim oppression in order to get money and preferential treatment
If they didn’t force a requirement, Unis would “only take the most qualified candidates”, which over 90%+ of the time would bar Black and Hispanic non-athletes because it so happens that they didn’t have the generational wealth required to have both a stable home environment and access to good schooling, meanwhile the white students with parents and grandparents who got access to extremely affordable property investments can coast right into college