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DEI is institutional racism and must be abolished.
It should be replaced with Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence.
That has yet to be the case for organizations in the history of capitalism – you think it will start now?
The lesson I’ve learned in American history is that each time that “those people” start to gain some measure of equality, there is a backlash to it.
“Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence”. That’s catchy. They should put that on posters of the Trump cabinet nominees.
Merit, Excellence and Intelligence…that was never the standard for evaluation of most employees in American industry. It was far simpler…are you white, and are you male. DEI is all about people who aren’t white and male having a chance to succeed. It’s so easy to look back now and see women and non-whites in executive and management positions, or on the news, sidelines at sporting events, and yes, serving in high positions in government, and forget how those folks got there. Colin Powell was very upfront about it. He was qualified, but he never would have made it as far as he did without EEOC/DEI type programs.
The ultimate irony is still Clarence Thomas, plucked from a life of poverty in an area of Georgia that barely spoke English, was taken in by the Catholic Church as part of its affirmative action plans for black men from the south, sent to top achieving high schools, then to a New England Catholic university as part of an affirmative action program, and now wants everyone to believe it made it solely on his personal merit. Now he pulls up the ladder behind him, while ruling against the legal theories that allowed him to marry a white woman as a matter of federal civil rights, not just whether each state would approve.
Lots of women and non-whites had the merits, the smarts, the education, to run businesses and universities and government. What they lacked was an open door, and DEI and EEOC, and once those programs kicked in, white men got nervous. Because now they had to compete on level fields, and frankly many couldn’t cut it.
Yes, I’m a white male. Witnessed the discrimination all through my early career, and was proud to mentor and help create programs to help folks move ahead in the latter part of my career.
Timothy, I couldn’t agree more. I’m a white man nearing 60, grew up in a modest near east side neighborhood to blue collar parents, and I worked my own way through undergrad and advanced degrees. But once I got into my real post-grad career, it didn’t take long for me to realize that while I got where I was through hard work, doors were certainly open to me – if I chose to take them – because I am a white man. And it’s not just because I am white; it’s because many of those same doors were simply not open to minorities. That is what white people who don’t believe in institutional racism simply don’t see. While I likely wouldn’t live to see it, by mid century white people will be the minority in this country and there will be a true racial reckoning.
White guilt must be exhausting having to be the saviour to all the other less fortunate. Thank goodness we have Tim and Robert.
So how to deal with this development? Cut back on or avoid purchases from WalMart. They made a decision to change their policies to avoid having conservatives sue them, or conservatives stop shopping there.
So, just as with the Pillow Man, and what I think Elon Musk is about to find out, people who support the causes Elon doesn’t support will simply stop buying his products. Twitter and Tesla…we’ll see what happens there.
Same for Walmart…they made their choice, and now I’ll make mine.
Livestream from the Walmart boardroom: “ Oh no!! We lost Tim!”
I don’t think they will miss you Timothy and Tesla and Twitter are doing just fine, love how the liberals say they are getting off Twitter but they are back within months.