Instead we're in the "undoing work" environment that frankly reminds me of Soviet Russia or Maoist China.
Hopefully we can emerge from this in a sort of "Deng Xiaoping moment".
DEI means to work in removing biases that limit access of minorities to opportunities. When it works, being a white male doesn’t get confused with merit, as it usually is. Lots of people think this is discrimination, because their group isn’t being hired as much as before when, in fact, it’s just the removal of discrimination against others.
In what way?
Seriously...
Did it occur to you to ask them what they want?
> Especially given that on some level they must know how others really feel about it.
It's not healthy to assign your self-value based on other people's opinions.
> It's interesting to see how these types of initiatives always produce the opposite of what they claim to stand for.
[Citation Needed]
On a more serious note, mental health is a very serious issue with women who feel they need to be thin to be fiscally healthy or attractive to others. Girls should never go through this.
There are those who were successful without merit, achieved renown/success only because they were DEI tokens.
Therefore if they didn't deserve their 'achievements' by the merits in the first place, there's nothing wrong with taking their stories down once the political climates have changed (especially a climate that encourages truth and merits over the political advantage that got those DEI tokens in in the first place).
Can you cite some examples?
> Therefore if they didn't deserve their 'achievements' by the merits in the first place, there's nothing wrong with taking their stories down once the political climates have changed (especially a climate that encourages truth and merits over the political advantage that got those DEI tokens in in the first place).
Who hasn't earned what? You tell me.
The majority of the current administration are people who were put into positions of power with no merit. I can say pretty much all of the Trump administration cabinet nominees have no experience in the positions they are in. They're receiving sycophantic rewards.
I'm arguing to reward merit genuinely and that undoing work is regressive. You respond with "what about" (and no evidence).
I didn't point out years, you did. Any relevant experience. Though, merit is effectively a function of years of experience baring extreme circumstances.
> If you believe they're worse at their jobs, you should demonstrate that in some other way.
While I do think that they are effectively worse at their jobs, you're asserting that I said something that I didn't. I said they in the positions without merit. Which they all are. Linda McMahon has no education experience. RFK has no health experience. Kash Patel has no law enforcement experience. Hegseth has no DOD experience.
You can't say meritless those guys (dei) bad, but meritless our guys (Maga) good with any sort of consistency. And that's assuming that all of the dei guys are meritless. I can point to many who were of merit, but not sychopants, thus removed.
I think it comes down to how well you think the government functioned prior to Trump. If you believe that it was terrible, then having experience in the old system can be seen as a negative. Btw I don't think you're entirely wrong in your concerns. I dislike both DEI and RFK's ideas. Unfortunately the question still remains, how can we find the best people for the job? I think the medical industry is incredibly corrupt and at the same time don't believe Joe Rogan will find a solution to this problem. Imo, the only solution is to fix the existing institutions, but I'm not sure how that can be done.
He was an Army officer that served in combat missions during the Global War on Terror, how is that not DOD experience?
Signalgate. The initial occurrence, the lying after, the demonizing of the reporter, the dismissal of its importance.
The list goes on and on. There was no single nomination that didn’t have a lot of reasons not to go through, but they went anyway.
The initial occurrence was spectacularly incompetent in a way that seems to me to be worse than normal.