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From an external (not US) PoV, it might also be that DEI was too much of a sacred cow before to call a spade a spade.

Maybe! But in this case, the bulk of the mistakes by the FAA happened in the 2012-2014. In the middle of the Obama administration, but well before the bulk of the really controversial post-BLM DEI stuff that the current administration is largely attacking.

DEI quotas have been around for decades. We just used to call it affirmative action and it was far less aggressive and blatant.

Affirmative action is strictly _better_ than some of the DEI nonsense. With affirmative action, you just reserve a bunch of positions for minorities, and then give them out based on merit.

With most of DEI, you either tweak the criteria to make job positions easier to get for minorities, or you lower your standards.

> With most of DEI, you either tweak the criteria to make job positions easier to get for minorities, or you lower your standards

Do you have a source for this.

I have worked for dozens of enterprise companies with DEI policies and not a single one dropped standards to attract "minorities".

It was MORE blatant and transparent, which IMO is the bare minimum for government-sanctioned racism. If we are going to do AA, we owe it to EVERYONE to make it clear exactly how and when we will do it. Sneaking it in disingenuously will rightfully piss people off.

It's all connected, DEI(B) is just the latest revision of the beast.

From an internal US pov, yes you are correct that's exactly what the culture is here. Call out the obviously lowered standards for women and minority candidates and expect severe consequences to your career.

> to call a spade a spade

intentional? one of the dumber virtue-signaling "no-nos" from the worst of DEI.

Yes. It was also often career suicide to criticize DEI indicatives.

Even if the criticism was intended to be constructive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Cham...

There's zero difference between this memo and what is frequently said by people who just don't like black people (because it's too bad optics to say "I just don't like black people").

People who just don't like pakistani people spend a lot of time talking about pakistani child rape gangs. Does that mean we should ignore the pakistani child rape gangs?

What part of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Cham...

serves the role of "pakistani child rape gangs"? Right now the analogy does not makes sense to me. "pakistani child rape gangs" are reprehensible, nothing that extreme comes to mind when I think of James Damore's memo or similar.

Why would a person misrepresent the memo when the file is there for anyone to read?

like the n word?

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