DEI includes people in wheelchairs and people who are deaf/blind and even veterans. Because DEI is ultimately about opening doors for people who are often overlooked *despite* being qualified. DEI is a pro-meritocracy approach.
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Adam Serwer
What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't
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The solution isn't to scrap DEI, the solution is to identify how we can improve it and then do that.
That doesn't mean we should abandon them.