So perhaps all the center-left pundit types who joined in the DEI pile-on were not in fact responding to public opinion, but were merely laundering their own reactionary instincts in a way that resolved cognitive dissonance? - ThreadSky

volts.wtf • 27 days ago

So perhaps all the center-left pundit types who joined in the DEI pile-on were not in fact responding to public opinion, but were merely laundering their own reactionary instincts in a way that resolved cognitive dissonance?

Reposted from Jake Grumbach

DEI public favorability continues to be +19.

Pundits are wrong that:

1) DEI is unpopular. It's popular.

2) This recent support is thermostatic. This is NOT thermostatic. DEI favorability has been high throughout its existence (second pic).

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dark-chocolate.bsky.social•27 days ago

There is a huge disconnect between Trump's approval rating (above water), what he's doing (Project 2025 stuff) and public opinion on the stuff he's actually doing (disapproval)

It's as if most people have no idea what's going on.
https://www.al.com/news/2025/01/president-trump-approval-ratings-what-the-latest-numbers-show.html

dark-chocolate.bsky.social•27 days ago

Re: public opinion of DEI, seems like the main takeaway is 58% believe DEI efforts currently in place are “not effective at all and have resulted in no meaningful change."

So it's easy to demagogue & oppose w/o blowback even if people approve of it in theory.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/workers-say-dei-initiatives-arent-important/735247/

mikegottschalk.bsky.social•27 days ago

🎯

malatesting.bsky.social•27 days ago

popular(with them)-ism

emptyset09.bsky.social•27 days ago

They had to sit through diversity trainings they hated and tried to cast it as a societal problem

volts.wtf•27 days ago

All part of the "leftists annoyed me and that's a Major National Problem" genre.

ltrojan.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes

janusroberts.bsky.social•27 days ago

Get their asses

evansutton.bsky.social•27 days ago

Wait are you telling me the guys who are gleefully using the r word and calling the rest of us "libs" derisively may not have been on the level with their attacks on DEI?

dellpesce.bsky.social•27 days ago

This whole thing with DEI reminds me of efforts to integrate schools and how that diminished into nothing in the 80’s. It was working, but these things take time. We need sustained effort of decades.

azraz.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or they try to manufacture public opinion

virtuistic.bsky.social•27 days ago

Correct.

kevlar700.bsky.social•27 days ago

6419 adults is statistically insignificant and in what context was it asked. I'm sure the hidden consensus is equality and not DEI.

sanjumisra.bsky.social•27 days ago

Maybe fight the battle that matters right now. Like not having the country become a dictatorship. FFS.

leftofcenterus.bsky.social•27 days ago

This is the problem with our side. Yo the other side wanna do unconstitutional shit. But let's nit pick if people left of center think cost benefit analysis of dei is not there. There has to be more to tweet about.

mysticlawyer.bsky.social•27 days ago

Got any links or names?

I think DEI, properly implemented, is essential for many reasons. At the same time, I think there are places that have gone overboard (some college administrations, for instance). Your thoughts?

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