What is DEI...really?

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Foreigner: It's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Far-left: It's (D)emocrat™ only, Exclusion of whites, and I need reparations

MAGA: Didn't Earn It

What do you guys think?
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Oh, let me try! "An easy excuse for fragile underachieving white dudes to make when they can't understand why they didn't achieve some level of success, after overestimating their own talent or value?" 
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You could insert any color skin and the statement would make just as much sense.
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Except it's uniformly white dudes that complain about it.  Blocking me after @'ing me, cool bro. 
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Simplicity is important. 

My strategy is simple. My life is simple. 

Some people dont like donating their money. They prefer to buy themselves expensive stuff. But that just makes them target of thieves and people just hate rich people who dont share or donate lol
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Interesting take.
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Except it's uniformly white dudes that complain about it. 
Blacks have been complaining about Jim Crow laws for a LOT longer than whites complained about DEI policies.

Can you spot the common theme now? (Spoiler: they were/are both skin color policies)
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My research seems to show that it is conceived, however misguidedly, to impress potential extraterrestrial invaders so that they refrain from blowing up our planet.

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Money can buy friends. Person just has to share with others. Well, even on the market, offering good things for low price attracts customers. So that way, giving away money is actually beneficial for your survival because you become important to people.
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What is DEI...really?
total bullshit

blackrock is pushing this whole thing

and they are no more diverse or equitable or inclusive than anyone else

it's a smoke-screen

a jabberwocky to scare the peasants
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Nice! It supports the rebuttal to the famous Fermi Paradox. The rebuttal stating that alien life would avoid the Earth as proof of alien intelligence.
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My research seems to show that it is conceived, however misguidedly, to impress potential extraterrestrial invaders so that they refrain from blowing up our planet.
Yea, well the original strategy of sending compositions by Bach was much more likely to keep the sun from being blown up by disgusted aliens...

Or maybe this will convince them we are not a threat and will never be able to work together for long enough to send out a colony ship.

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The question is: do women, people of color, lgbt+, disabled people, etc. experience disadvantage in any way in this country? If the answer is no, then you're likely to believe DEI just exists to steal from straight white men. If the answer is yes, then a nuanced conversation gets to exist. Here's a good conversation on white men feeling left out of DEI (between people who actually work in DEI): https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresahopke/2022/03/30/white-men-are-feeling-left-out-of-dei-diversity-equity--inclusion-why-should-we-care-and-what-should-we-do/?sh=75cc82cffaa6
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do women, people of color, lgbt+, disabled people, etc. experience disadvantage in any way in this country?
20% of women in USA are raped.

LGBT is mocked and called the spawn of satan.

People with autism are bully targets in school.

1 in 30 of black men are in prison.

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The problem with sending the compositions of Bach is that it might be perceived as boasting.
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Taylor Swift then.
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Yes, that’s more representative.
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It is interesting (if not disturbing) to note that “whiteness” is the only racial identity or construct which is universally examined in a negative light by academia:


If you look at the accompanying intersectionality chart, good spelling is presumably an aspect of whiteness (and therefor something not to be highly valued or emphasized).
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This is the etymology in a nutshell:

1) Rednecks dominated the south, and minorities had no choice but to assimilate to the white redneck culture by proximity.

2) A civil war happened. The northern white culture, heavily influenced by intellectual Germans and enlightened protestants clashed with the backwards Redneck culture. 

3) Most white Rednecks died in the war as they were a minority culture in America, and the rest were forcefully assimilated under carpetbagging reconstruction policies followed by the elimination of segregation. While white redneck remains and is loud and sensationalized for shock effect and propaganda, they are a very small minority culture today. Less than 1000 KKK members exist in a population of 340 million, and most of those people are ex-convicts.

4) Minorities were allowed to retain their redneck culture as it was deemed too difficult and cruel to force former slaves to assimilate to northern culture. Many of the diaspora self-segregated into ghettos to avoid the pains of assimilation, thus giving rise to the moniker "ghetto culture"

5) Fast forward to today where the surviving black redneck culture is celebrated as being (somehow) a uniquely African American experience, and this culture is a great benefit to society, despite the fact that it is still the polar opposite of the majority Northern culture, which is (somehow) a uniquely White American experience. 

6) Northern culture today is an objectively superior culture as evidenced by what culture won the Civil War, proving that a culture based on education, hard work, family, and industrialization trumps a culture based on class, race, subjugation, less intellectual agricultural pursuits, and aggressive belligerence.

7) Today's postmodernists define this cultural discrepancy as "white privilege" and demand equity for generations raised in the remnants of a backwards culture that lost a Civil War.

8) If you challenge any of this view of white privilege, then you are a racist.

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Yep, I knew that had Thomas Sowell’s stank all over it. I would also recommend looking into the following intellectuals on this subject:

John McWhorter
Glenn Loury
Coleman Hughes