DEI Debate
A place to share your thoughts on DEI policy in corporate America, Academia and in Western society at large. I started this blog on Lemmy after a moderator at HackerNews came into a comment section and reprimanded posters for sharing their own experiences with DEI enforcers at their workforce.
This post was partiuclarly informative as a poster explained a negative experience he had at Dropbox. However, the moderator did not like the tone of the thread and decided to shut it down.
I found that to be an anti-free speech position as this comment section was nothing but respectable. This led me to ask, where can we actually talk about DEI issues and their impact on our career progression and free speech rights? Certainly not on HackerNews, certainly not on Reddit.
So I am going to try to make this community a place where we can host productive debate and actually discuss these issues in a polite and civil manner. YOUR experience matters and I'd love for you to share it!
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Tell me you don't understand institutional racism without telling me you don't understand institutional racism.
I think you and many others make the mistake of thinking that if group A and group B differ in outcomes and success, group B must be striving to keep down group A. What you don't consider is that different races and people in different subcultures exhibit massively different behaviors.
The problem is that we can't talk about this anywhere without being threatened by HR or even threatened to be banned from certain social media sites.
So there's really almost nothing we can do about this until your side admits that you're anti-free speech and anti-free inquiry, even at the highest academic levels. If you can admit that then we could actually start listing behavioral differences between African Americans and Whites or Asians, and then perhaps start really figuring out how to approach this problem of 'inequity'