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[–] jessca@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm am strongly opposed to diversity. We should stop using Windows and macOS and create a monoculture by standardizing on Linux.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

I've seen the Right's answer to DEI.

They deny that there is/was inequality so they claim that pushing equality gives an unfair advantage.

They say that any perceived inequality is the lack in the sum of experience and expertise.

They say that forced inclusion is unfair on the meritocracy of others.

They also tend to think that racism and sexism are overblown because they are incapable of believing (or it is otherwise too inconvenient for them to believe) that other people actually have problems if they don't themselves experience them.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would argue DEI nolonger means diversity equity and inclusion.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Are you sure it's not Democrats, Education and Immigrants?

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[–] robinoberg@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

I hate the positive discrimination and the forced representation. It's just bigotry.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
- Not Voltaire

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

People don't have a problem saying they oppose dei or the full phrase and will happily explain that they do not like workplace policy designed around diversity equity and inclusion.

Dei is absolutely something that should be considered but the right managed to absolutely annihilate it with their fake news propaganda campaign. When its brought back it needs to be packaged different. I think having every corporation parrot the phrase over and over doesn't not help.

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Simple: It's diversity. They hate diversity and would rather live their lives only interacting with people like themselves and never having their world view challenged.

It's racism and there's a shocking amount of folks who will just straight up tell you that they are racist if it's not in public where it could affect their jobs. There's also plenty of losers who don't care and are just openly racist, but they don't tend to have careers on the line.

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[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

Probably why they latch on to “woke” to and they never fully explain what’s so woke about the subject

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (8 children)

TBH, as a poor white kid from coal country, DEI based scholarships were quite unfair to me. Busting my ass to survive while these kids who were already better off than me from the start got a free ride. Nonsense.

I don't have a great answer, but the extreme implementations of these programs and now the extreme removal of them are both wrong.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

It was interesting that there was this program my kid qualified for that was DEI oriented. Which I found strange because we are relatively well off and could easily pay for what this program covered.

To their credit, you might have been qualified too, since this program also accepted people under a household income threshold, and as a result had quite a few white boys in it too.

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