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!
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When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
To say that it’s equality is actually funny to me, considering that to get into a certain university in my state the white applicants need SAT scores that are 200 points higher than the black applicants. That involves a lot of extra study and even a certain lifestyle. And this is the major issue that I have with DEI – it’s like giving an honorary degree to a ‘diverse’ candidate, then putting pressure on a company to hire this candidate, and then inventing a position for this candidate, and then promoting this candidate to a leadership position.
That is not ‘equality’. To have someone who comes into a tech position with no relevant experience and no relevant knowledge, because she has a vagina or has black skin, is the opposite of equality
Source on your claim about SAT scores?
That’s quite an impressive strawman you’ve constructed in your mind, there.
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
So, I would like to share an experience from my job that has various ‘affinity groups’ for EVERYONE except white males. We have affinity groups for Arabs, African Americans, Asians, Latino’s, Women, LGBTQ, etc, but none for white males.
This is rather discriminatory because the leadership at our site, as per one of our HR representatives, is 50% ‘non-white’ and I would say that for the non-leadership portion of the company, it’s about 40% white, with probably 60% being women. My point being, there’s not really that many white males in this building, especially in non-leadership positions.
I’m somewhat offended by this considering that at these affinity group meetings, leadership interacts with employees and tells them ways to get promoted, etc. It’s quite discriminatory, IMO.
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I would tend to agree with you.
Tell me you don’t understand institutional racism without telling me you don’t understand institutional racism.
I think you and many others make the mistake of thinking that if group A and group B differ in outcomes and success, group B must be striving to keep down group A. What you don’t consider is that different races and people in different subcultures exhibit massively different behaviors.
The problem is that we can’t talk about this anywhere without being threatened by HR or even threatened to be banned from certain social media sites.
So there’s really almost nothing we can do about this until your side admits that you’re anti-free speech and anti-free inquiry, even at the highest academic levels. If you can admit that then we could actually start listing behavioral differences between African Americans and Whites or Asians, and then perhaps start really figuring out how to approach this problem of ‘inequity’
There’s better options for helping the disadvantaged than resorting to racism.
Rather than hold up a color chart why not judge based on economic factors? A person’s income,parental income, education level, tax returns etc are far more accurate indicators.
Dei is institutional racism and ugly as hell.
**“why not judge based on economic factors” **- completely agree with this. Judging by the tint of your skin is insane. But as an employer I would give more value to someone who succeeded coming from a poor economic situation over someone who did not. Everything is equal but one started working part time during school at 14, working full time in the summers, vs. a kid who never had or needed a job during their years in school. I’ll hire the kid who started working at 14
