JemmyMeta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’
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katy ✨Look, Trump won an overwhelming 49.9% of the popular vote to Harris's meager 48.4%, of the 63.9% of eligible voters who turned out. We need to acknowledge the massive landslide victory this was, the clear mandate it provides Trump, and forfeit all gains made for equality and inclusion made over the last 50 years.
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I guess you know you’ve made some progress when there’s some lashback about it. I tend to take an optimistic view that racism isn’t going to die quietly, so we shouldn’t despair if it puts up something of a fight.
Not sure what we expected of Facebook, soulless bastards that they are.
I will say though that DEI departments have sometimes breathed their own farts so long that they put out truly ridiculous shit that makes them look like clowns.
I work in software and our DEI group said “hey can we start saying ‘block list’ and ‘allow list’ instead of ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist?” And I thought okay sure, that’s a pretty clear case of white=good, black=bad. Not that anyone means ill by it but it’s a very easy thing to let go.
Then they came out and said we should not use the phrase “long time no see,” because native Americans might think that you are talking in a Native American stereotype caricature voice, and feel excluded.
I was like uh… what? “Long time no see” is Native American blackface? Give me a fucking break.
magnetosphere“I could use my company’s tremendous wealth and influence in a positive or even neutral way, but it’s easier to be a spineless, pathetic coward.”
MonomateThe world is healing, it seems. It's almost like the DEI hellscape of the last 5 years was nothing more than a fever dream.
You don’t know what a hellscape is, son.
SecretSaucesTheir version of a hellscape is one where straight white people arent treated as superior to everyone else.
Oh, yeah, cause your comments are filled with goodwill.
Wait, no, they're filled with hate.
You actually think we're all stupid enough to think hatred has healing power?
Come on. Aren't you supposed to be clever?
Corporations never accepted women, blacks, latinos, LGBTQ+, and other minorities because they thought they were human beings with an inalienable right to representation and are a part of the human communtiy.
No, no, no, the only thing corporations ever cared about was that they were leaving money on the table. Selling stuff to those groups was profitable, as was hiring people from those groups. A bigger pool of potential customers and laborers.
Now that profits have been mildly impacted, they're going to make it *very* clear that if they think you're unprofitable that you don't deserve representation or rights.
Just to be clear, it's always been this way, the mask is just off and they're being very honest about it being about profits, not people. The queer kids were always right to call it "Pinkwashing" and "Rainbow Capitalism." This is how the game has always been played, *they never cared about us as humans.*
It seems counterintuitive because accepting more people means accepting money from more people. Pushing away potential customers for no reason is just plain stupid
You’re not thinking of the other side - the assholes that see those people being represented and catered to and deciding to take their money elsewhere because they disagree that those people deserve representation.
To be fair, corporations have never cared about *anybody* as humans. They view us as objects to be sucked of any wealth they can extract.
True, but for a long time when it was mostly only straight white men who were successful, they lied to themselves about it.
Isn't that what it's supposed to be? It has only become "charged" by being unpopular with the new fascist regime.
It also became charged when used as a topic of brain-dead culture war... which was mostly pushed on platforms like those by Meta.
the wrong groups are getting preferential treatment!!!!
how about no one gets preferential treatment? is that an option?
That was the aim of DEI. Otherwise the usual groups get de facto preferential treatment. It's not so simple as just "do nothing and everyone gets a fair shot."
an eye for an eye has clearly left everyone blind
In addition to what floofloof said which is correct: consider if I came to your house and took some of your favorite things then declared "ok no more stealing!" Is that suddenly fair?
They’re scared of being harassed by Trump
Look At Dana, He's The Captain Now