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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So, I would like to share an experience from my job that has various 'affinity groups' for EVERYONE except white males. We have affinity groups for Arabs, African Americans, Asians, Latino's, Women, LGBTQ, etc, but none for white males.
This is rather discriminatory because the leadership at our site, as per one of our HR representatives, is 50% 'non-white' and I would say that for the non-leadership portion of the company, it's about 40% white, with probably 60% being women. My point being, there's not really that many white males in this building, especially in non-leadership positions.
I'm somewhat offended by this considering that at these affinity group meetings, leadership interacts with employees and tells them ways to get promoted, etc. It's quite discriminatory, IMO.