Comment on DEI Dies in Another Red State

Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed! Homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion are core principles of conservative America. Merit is the only means by which others should be judged, their achievements a testament to their productivity and usefulness. And if that means hiring less minorities and excluding lesser people who aren’t a good cultural fit because of “the system” or whatever, then so be it. The few that make it through will prove to everyone else that, if they submit to the grind, they too can succeed.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Merit is the only means by which others should be judged, their achievements a testament to their productivity and usefulness. And if that means hiring less minorities and excluding lesser people who aren’t a good cultural fit because of “the system” or whatever, then so be it.

    Are you really trying to imply minority groups have less merit? Do you want your surgeon to be merit based or diversity based? Do you want your pilots to be blind because they are underrepresented in airline pilots?

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you really trying to imply minority groups have less merit?

      That’s literally the implication of dismantling DEI initiatives. Because no DEI program sacrificed merit for diversity. A diverse candidate qualifies on merit first then other characteristics.

      Do you want your surgeon to be merit based or diversity based? Do you want your pilots to be blind because they are underrepresented in airline pilots?

      …you know what? Yeah, why not? What’s the difference began a good minority surgeon and a good majority surgeon? It’s not like stitches are going to stitch themselves. And better someone who won’t dismiss my pain because of my skin color than someone who will.

      And if there are technologies that allow blind pilots to perform at the level of seeing pilots, then…actually I hate flying altogether so I’ll sit this one out.

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  • Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reality is, boomers and their offspring for various reasons felt really horrible about how minorities were treated in western nations and about colonialism and slavery. They sought equal rights for POC & That’s good, but to abandon merit based systems of promotion and success is ridiculous. The best people should move forward in every situation. If A POC is the better than his white counter-part then so be it, everything should be equal opportunity not forced outcome based on skin color, gender, sexuality ect.

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      everything should be equal opportunity

      That’s impossible when the opportunities to even be prepared for opportunities is unequal. The children in San Francisco’s most prestigious private schools (itself a function of wealth) aren’t drinking leaded water like public school attending kids in Flint, Michigan.

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      • Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Michigan should get its shit together end vote for new leadership, however they vote in the same bs every year expecting things to change, replacing one corrupt democrat with another corrupt democrat. Look at the last two governors, there is nothing they have done to fix it, just broken bs promises. Meanwhile we find billion dollar satellites to taper pictures of pluto, something broken here and it’s not opportunity systems, its government

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      • Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There in lies government corruption, not to harp on easy prey but how can the usa fund hundreds Of billions of dollars in ukraine but not fix a problem that would cost a fraction of that, same with the border wall, homelessness, rehabilitationof drug addicts ect……. Our government is run by fools and corrupt politicians along with intelligence agency deep state people that dgaf about poor people here cz that’s not what makes money

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