This was the obvious outcome. Those DEI jobs are pure bullshit. Downvote me if you feel like it, but they’re counterproductive.
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100%. We had one at my company before 2020 and the hiring somehow got less diverse after they were brought in.
DEI jobs were just marketing. It's the same sort of performative marketing seen during LGBTQ+ Month. Companies put rainbows on everything for a month, and then go back to business as usual the following month. DEI jobs were the same, while society was focused on diversity, companies hired someone to be the public face of "look at us, we care!" With less media focus on it and with budgets tightening, that wing of marketing is being axed. The companies don't care now, didn't care then and won't care in the future. It's all about the money.
What does DEI mean?
Conservstices: Designated Ethnic Invertebrates
Everyone else: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Thanks, hard to keep up with all these new acryonyms lol.
I was pretty sure about the diversity from the context but had to look it up for the other two.
hard to keep up with all these new acryonyms
Especially the ones from foreign countries.
Affirmative action was banned because it was found to disadvantage Asian people, especially the Hmong, Laotian and other SEA people who are not stereotyped as "good at math". On average an Asian applicant needs a SAT score 250 points higher than a Black applicant to have the same chance to be admitted under affirmative action.
Edit: did some further reading on the subject since then, apparently it's so bad that experts (college admissions counselors) actively encourage Asian applicants to hide their race to get better chances of admission. Also it is not unknown for darker-skinned Asians to simply declare their race as Black.
I agree with all of what you said but the article isn't really about AA.
Companies like X/Twitter, Amazon and Applebees have
Et tu, Applebee's?
"... filled mostly by white people"
Yeah. And? What kind of racist bullshit is this?
On the one side, it's nice if the demographics match society at large, which these do.
On the other, we white people are on the whole underqualified to understand the needs of minority communities and how we can be more inclusive. Lived experience is an important part of being effective in these roles.
Given that, it's surprising that so many white people qualify. Perhaps they went above and beyond to study and dedicate themselves to overcoming the lack of experience. If so, good for them! Is amazing they care so much about this cause. But is that really the most likely scenario?
white people are on the whole under qualified to understand
This is complete false. If these type of positions even try to pretend to be anything other than a token gesture by the marketing department have some kind of training and certification and possibly even a degree behind them that quantifies whatever they are trying to teach. That means exams and reports and presentations. That means reading textbooks and doing research. So someone saying that the color of one's skin makes them innately better at taking a DEI-related exam and being a better DEI worker is about as racist as you can get.
If someone said that the color of one's skin would dictate if they could solve a partial differential equation, or the sex organs they have between their legs determined whether they could design a 5 story building, then they'd be called sexists or racist. Claiming that a white person automagically can't be disadvantaged and/or can't be as good in a DEI curriculum or work position is incredibly racist.