DEI Debate

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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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What are your thoughts on DEI? (self.debate_dei)

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I would love to hear your experiences and your thoughts on this topic. If you have pro-DEI or anti-DEI positions, I will read them, consider them and respect your right to your own opinion.

My position is that I'm anti-DEI as I consider it a form of discrimination against white males and also consider it very deceptive. I'm open to discussing it!

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[–] blahsay 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's better options for helping the disadvantaged than resorting to racism.

Rather than hold up a color chart why not judge based on economic factors? A person's income,parental income, education level, tax returns etc are far more accurate indicators.

Dei is institutional racism and ugly as hell.

[–] Mickey7 2 points 7 months ago

**"why not judge based on economic factors" **- completely agree with this. Judging by the tint of your skin is insane. But as an employer I would give more value to someone who succeeded coming from a poor economic situation over someone who did not. Everything is equal but one started working part time during school at 14, working full time in the summers, vs. a kid who never had or needed a job during their years in school. I'll hire the kid who started working at 14