Having DEI shredded like this is such a tragic turn of events. The push back to move minorities forward is so much stronger than I naively realized. You can’t stop progress though.. no one’s going anywhere.
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Laws are only as good as the enforcement mechanism that will compel compliance, should there be the need. If there is no enforcement of the law, the law becomes useless.
ah. now let's see if the current presidents plan to displace government workers and replace them with his own very loyal people follow the same standards I would also like to know more about the "presidential personnell database".
Why did no one ever say this in a debate? Or on the news in defence of DEI? Had this been layed out on the news for the last year, maybe more people would have opposed trump calling Kamala a DEI hire.
Not even this more innocuous interpretation is correct because it doesn’t ensure anything. It’s not a quota system. Oversimplified but government agencies mainly use programs like these to encourage underrepresented demographics to simply APPLY for positions.
There is plenty of research that shows you are less likely to get a job interview with a name on a job application that suggests an ethnic minority compared to English sounding names. THAT’S why we need DEI.
I see what you mean but it’s not tactics, its human behaviour. Individual discrimination that is often unconscious. People have all sorts of biases. DEI should be about levelling the playing field. If it’s isn’t then it’s being administered wrong and that should be investigated.
Not to mention that minorities are generally OVERQUALIFIED. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gets called DEI even though she had one of the deepest and most impressive resumes we've seen in decades.
It's more effective to fix a broken step than promise free surgeries and lawsuits to everyone that gets injured. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
Thank you for adding the alt-text. Beyond the "cut/paste at will," including alt text was literally my only request to the world when I posted it. Keep up the good work.
You’re welcome. If you have any other tips on writing good alt text, I’d love to hear them. I’ve never experienced this from the other side and I don’t really know what is considered useful and what just gets in the way.
I’m right there with you. And I KNOW I have some bad habits trying to be “clever” that likely just annoy people. All we can do is keep practicing, and hope the “extra” effort some day stops being perceived as “extra”
DEI is being used to rile up the racists and bigots but is so much more than what is said here, it also applies to over 40 (any race), veteran work programs, protections for pregnant women and mothers, disabled work programs, etc...every can eventually be affected by the loss of these protections.
It is important to be aware of and understand — and ultimately, address — the full scope of the problem here, you’re right. I think that there are only so many words one can pack into a comic panel, is all.
It wasn't a knock on the comic, I agree with you and am glad you posted it. I just like to add that because people don't always worry about things they don't think affect them, which I personally don't understand, but the more people that fight it the better.
They had to sit through a training that was probably really boring and/or gave them a list of racisms that made them think, “but I do those things and I’m not racist.”
Exactly! Trump and friends are outright saying they want underqualified white men to run everything. Look at his administration. All white men and very few women. They're not qualified to do anything. They're just useless idiots.
Most of the MAGA I know are white guys who grumble about Affirmative Action/DEI. None of them have been able to keep a job for longer than 18 months at a time & carry decades of resentment from not being allowed to fail upwards, which they had taken for granted as an unwritten social contract.
It's so weird. Like me, these guys are all Gen X, or Gen Jones. These were all guys who were like "I'm not going to put on a suit and tie and sit at a desk every day just because The Man says I have to." Now they feel like the thing they flatly refused to do was stolen from them.
All of them are like "if it weren't for affirmative action and hiring quotas, I'd be rich now," and I'm like no. There's nothing wrong with being a weed smoking underachiever but it's not exactly a career path. And yet it's the one they chose. No one stole opportunities from them.
They just expected to magically go from weed smoking underachiever to Successful Businessman at some point, without putting in any effort. But it's totally what they thought they were entitled to by society, by virtue of being white and male.
I was lucky enough to be headhunted right out of community college by a tech support helpdesk staffing company. I'm not rich, I'm still an underachiever by a lot of my generational cohort's standards, but I'm doing ok. I'm not a "bootstraps" story. I don't blame marginalized people for my choices.
EDIT: Since this thread is "doing numbers" I thought I'd add: I think a lot of white men like this my age, that I know personally, got the idea that failing upwards was part of the social contract for them&something they were entitled to from watching their boomer-age dads who did just that.
Yes, but if one thinks a white penis is a qualification & the only one of value, and that the rest of humanity is there to be exploited and abused by possessors of white penises, one doesn't care about such distinctions.
This right here. This is why the way DEI messaging is done is as bad as Defund the police.
It makes it sound like we want lower skilled people to be given preference in the name of DEI instead of saying please give everyone an equal playing field and don't discriminate on women/minorities etc.
Although I am totally for restoration of DEI, I think saying anything at all to imply a white person might not be hired is what kills it for MAGA. The fear obsolescence. Better to concentrate on saying we get the best when there is more competition or a bigger pool, more ideas,...
Not just white. DEI is a racist framework that should not exist. Very glad Trump signed this order. Hoping for major lawsuits against major corporations
In the 80s, it was common to force females into a Mommy Track. Guess what? Damn few of us went to all girls schools. We had the same teachers, same presentations, same tests,... The grades in most classes involved no subjectivity. Just bizarre that it suggested we are somehow a compromise candidate.
That shows a total misunderstanding. DEI suggests employers broaden their search to include HBC, ethnic newspapers or websites, etc. to attract a larger mix. In the case of people with health, conditions, it would provide some accommodations. There is no special grading/appraisal system
I recall coworkers guessing what people were before inviting them to an interview. They assumed certain names were minorities, certain addresses came from minority areas, certain religious schools were white. Race was used every day, but you aren't indignant about it when it is done in private.
You're describing how these programs were sold, and I am telling you what is actually happening in the corporate world. The managers were told explicitly that they should hire more and promote more people from "marginalized groups". From Microsoft to IBM. And company's ESG scores depend on this
Here are exact things I saw in my 40 yrs: recruiting from specific religious schools because most students were white, looking up address to see if they were from an ethnic neighborhood, Googling surnames to see what they were, titty bar entertainment to keep the women out, .......
Intentionally hiring does not mean compromise. It means deciding to find the groups and attract them. Why shouldn't they do that? It seems logical that they should be represented at all levels, and once employed why wouldn't they be promoted?
No one is against broadening the search. This is not what actually happened in the past 10 years. The reality of how these policies have been implemented is that they have been explicitly racist. If you are up for promotion or hiring, they gave preferences to "people of color". Unless you are Asian
I have been working over 40 years, and this is not what I am seeing, and I seriously doubt you have stats to prove it. Sometimes evals/promos are subjective. Just bec you don't agree, doesn't mean it's padded. I see where there is still resistance to hire them unless they can pay them less.
More directly, it was established to avoid getting sued for doing the latter. It's not even a law, it's company policy, written by capalists for their own benefit, and it *worked*
Actually it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. So it doesn't matter what bullshit reason they claim it's unconstitutional. The ONLY Metric you can use is money. That's it. You Folks should read the USSC decision from the Aughts.
THANK YOU! I’ve been screaming “You’ve got it backwards, numbskulls!” at my television set for years, but I guess tv only works one way. I hear them, they don’t hear me.
Since my team should have signed him, it affected my interest a lot. I think I watched half a game this season... Or maybe last watched 2/3 seasons ago? Hazy memory.
Hard to get into things when I don't like the owners and worry about the long term cognitive effects on players.
Why do you think it is okay to use DEIA, as a slur? Should I just call them Neo Fascists? It is a fascist mentality to blame all the ills of the world on the people with the least amount of power. I am curious what you are thinking. Convince me.
6. I may be wrong and don't know all the ins and outs of DEI so open to changing my mind but people like you who think anyone who thinks different or insults something they don't like is a Nazi is a big part of why Trump is in power
5. Help can be given to those who need it prior to the moment of choice to assist any people that need to increase their merit (in the form of education or training) but when chosing it should be merit based.
4. Only policies that target people who are hiring based on race (which would effect minorities) but how can you fight that if business ARE chosing people based on race and it's policy.
3. Your life view seems to have taught you that minorities need your white help to change the rules to give them a chance against you or they will fail.
I don't see them that way so do not think there should be policies in place to help people based on race.
3. I asked why he hadn't applied and he said they have a program to promote minorities and it was ending and he wanted to wait because he didn't want to get a job because of a program. He wanted to get it on his own merit
2. My reason for not giving a shit about DEI and anyone who talks bad about it is that about 25 years ago before everyone got stupid, I had a co-worker who wanted to be firefighter. He would have been great at it the pay was way better money than where we worked.
1. Why do you think it's ok to US Nazi as a slur if someone see things differently than you? You minimize what Nazi did when you try to use your childish cancel culture on people for having differeent opinions and using words....
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DEI and Jim Crow need to be studied side by side. Both oppress. Both kill. Bass and Johnson are vying neck and neck for most incompetent. DEI amplifies the Peter Principle.
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There's no fear of DEI. There is anger from entitled white people, who are used to getting hired over equally qualified minorities because they're skin is a different color.
Harassment is a specific behavior that is illegal when it violates laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It is about actions that harm or target individuals.
DEI is a proactive cultural strategy aimed at creating equitable and inclusive environments.
i happen to be of the belief that if two candidates apply for a job with the exact same resume, and one is white and one is black, the black candidate is in fact more qualified
because so much more was demanded of them simply to gain access to the same opportunities
i can't know for certain about any one individual. but there are certain facts we do know, and many of them are about how black people (in the us & many other places) are discriminated against in ways that are impossible to COMPLETELY avoid regardless of wealth, status, or any other factor.
Then someone’s ethnicity should not be a factor in hiring decisions. People should be treated as individuals, not as members of a group, and I think that’s how most people want to be treated.
I also think granting marginalized communities opportunities + financial + legislative empowerment + representation will make it so one day we won’t need policies as they are written today.
But today is not the day to get rid of DEI / DEIA.
after watching a 50-something white woman tear into a black 20-something on public transportation and watching nobody stand up and say anything back in like 2019, I knew we were nowhere close.
(i stood up and headed her off but as an introvert i seriously wished others would have)
You, too? I thought we were almost there when I was campaigning for Pres. Obama the 2nd time around. Now? I feel like we are back in the days of my childhood when I would ask my mom why the black people had to use a separate bathroom at the gas station and had to bring their own tp.
Same. It's very disheartening. I thought seeing the disabled, minorities, women, etc. had been normalized to the point that we wouldn't need all this very soon. Then the Asian lawsuits and this DEI horror show told me otherwise. 😔
Yep. It feels like we spent all those years climbing a mountain, and just as we thought we had made it to the top, we found out their was another damn mountain to club.
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In the 90's we held diversity training as an employment requirement. This was with Caterpillar Logistics and was one of the best classes ever! No one was to be treated differently than the rest.
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It makes it sound like we want lower skilled people to be given preference in the name of DEI instead of saying please give everyone an equal playing field and don't discriminate on women/minorities etc.
FOLLOWING
I'm sure you know this.
I'm just mentioning it because sometimes I feel like that gets overlooked.
Hard to get into things when I don't like the owners and worry about the long term cognitive effects on players.
You keep going
I don't see them that way so do not think there should be policies in place to help people based on race.
Lloyd Austin: black and highly qualified to be secretary of defense.
Pete Hegseth: white and not qualified to be secretary of defense.
So many examples.
Been going for years of course, but now they have data and algorithms to hone efforts towards achieving specific results.
Weird.
DEI is a proactive cultural strategy aimed at creating equitable and inclusive environments.
Harassment laws predate DEI by decades.
Oh wait...
Okay, you're right to post it.
because so much more was demanded of them simply to gain access to the same opportunities
But today is not the day to get rid of DEI / DEIA.
today is, in fact, a good day to dei
(i stood up and headed her off but as an introvert i seriously wished others would have)
As It Should Be.....
#DiversityEqualityInclusion
Give the best well deserved a job that fills all the qualifications, regardless of skin color or physical abilities.
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