Yet another tan suit.
You guys keep coming up with different names for “not being an asshole”, then some asshole comes and claims it’s some evil scheme because the name’s so fucking obscure that of course dumbasses are going to fall for that shit
It’s been coupled together from the start, but I have been seeing it more often recently, in particular with the whole Boeing fiasco, multiple outlets blaming DEI. Wouldn’t be surprised if Boeing was behind the propaganda efforts to help deflect responsibility.
It’s also being used in the Baltimore bridge collapse. Lots of “the boat wouldn’t have hit it if they had more white people on the crew. This was caused by DEI hiring inept crews” and “it’s cuz of all the lazy black people getting hired to work on the bridge. It wouldn’t have collapsed if white people were maintaining it” rhetoric.
Both of those felt gross to even type out, but I have 100% seen both of them being parroted in response to the collapse.
It’s fucking insane
Not only is it gross and racist as you’ve laid out, I think the other purpose the “woke, esg, dei, crt” conspiracy stuff serves is as a thought ender. If a poorly maintained ship loses power and hits a bridge, you might start to think about why the economic incentives and laws are set up in such a way that would allow that to happen. But if someone blames it on dei, well, deep down there’s no way you’re really going to believe that. But it gives you a pressure release for the cognitive dissonance that otherwise might cause you to have to examine your own beliefs. The angrier you get about it, the less reflection you have to do. Especially as we are wired to be tribal, so blaming the screwup on the woke libs feels a lot better than listening and thinking through things.
I can see it now " Google how many women and colors were working on Boeing. They didn’t used to be that way"
Political Correctness > Woke > CRT > DEI > ??
Sooner or later somebody’s going to have to admit that they’re just never going to be happy.
Forgot SJWs. Remember when we were Social Justice Warriors? That was funny.
Oh, good call. I prefer to be a Social Justice Paladin, myself.
Could I be a Social Justice Bard instead? Or maybe a Social Justice Warlock…
Beginner strats. I spec’d into Social Justice Necromancer, don’t ever ask me what happened to Thatcher’s corpse.
Well, not until the people that aren’t exactly like them are doing worse. In fact everyone has to do worse than them
How many iterations will it take for them to just say what they’re really against: policies that promote empathy and compassion for people who are different
Somehow, that evolution accurately captures the cultural progress we’ve made toward racial equality.
Not unless they can own slaves again.
That’s the ironic part. Even if we went back to 1800 the vast majority of these angry people wouldn’t be slave owners because they wouldn’t be able to afford it. They’d actually be far more likely to be debt-slaves than own any people themselves. The era they actually want to go back to is an idealized version of the 1950s, when you couldn’t own people but you could call them slurs in public, they had separate drinking fountains, and they lived far away from you. Plus you could hit your wife if dinner didn’t taste perfect, physical and mental abuse was how kids were raised (when you saw them at all), and one income could raise a family.
Sad how those last six words are the only thing we could agree on and should actually get back to, but it’s cheaper for the owner class to stoke hate.
DEI as I understand it right now means I’m expected to start giving a shit about what color people are and I simply will not do that.
Open to being corrected on if there’s a version of this that doesn’t have me categorizing people by skin color.
We got real close to “15 minute cities” but that doesn’t light up the outrage centers of the brain like DEI I guess. Shame.
I was confused about how people were angry about Cathode Ray Tubes at first. Had to search both initialisms to figure out what the post is about.
What did your search turn up about DEI?
Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Is it not correct?
Equity
“hey can I get some more home equity? the gays say I should have more” lol
It is correct, but Drug Enforcement Igency sounds cooler 😁
And thanks.
Lol
Drug Enforcement Igency
Oh wow. THANK YOU for knowing the difference between an acronym and an an initialism. You’ve genuinely made my day.
I learned it somewhere on Lemmy a few weeks ago :D
I forgot what CRT was. It feels like its been years. Critical Race Theory, right? It was just a few months ago they were talking about it though.
Complaining about education (ex: common core) is pretty common because no one likes change. CRT could at least arguably be seen as a new subject matter / new way of teaching history that people wouldn’t like. But DEI is… like going really mask off now.
It’s so mask off the euphemism already died and got hijacked.
bro crts are gone how is there moral panic about it. and what the fuck is dei? I thought the big thing now was oleds.
DEI = Dangerously Electric Illumination. 100x brighter than oled.
I thought it was CRT -> LCD…
US politics has too many acronyms and becomes more incomprehensible by the day.
As by design
Wait a minute, guys… does this mean we stopped brainwashing kids to be trans? Let’s make sure we’re all on the same page of the playbook.
What is DEI? New conspiricy dropped? Heard it couple times over the last days but kinda missed it
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
Thanks!
Diversity Equity Inclusion, three things conservatives in every country hate.
oof madone
I thought they were pissing about something else between CRT and DEI, but I can’t remember what it was. Shows you how shallow their rage machine actually is
There were a whole lot of people freaking out about being called “cis” for a minute.
That was about 50/50 innocent usage ans actively a slur though.
It’s never been a slur, it’s literally a scientific term. It would be like getting pissed someone called you a sapian, or a mammal. It’s just snowflakes being mad they aren’t considered the default, or “normal”
Just like it’s not a slur to say retard, dumb, negro, mongoloid, etc.
First of all, if you think dumb is a slur than you deserve to be called dumb. You also deserve to be called dumb for comparing cis to these lol.
So I deserve to be called someone incapable of speech, got it.
My God, you are just being deliberately obtuse at this point. No one calling someone dumb is using it in that way and you know it. I’m not going to continue a discussion with someone arguing in bad faith.
Sure, the horrible slur of * checks notes * accurately getting described as part of the heteronormative majority
Ah yes official terms have never become derogatory.
Wtf is DEI?
It’s another thing they’ll tell you isn’t happening at all but if it is then it’s a good thing, and if you don’t like it, you’re racist.
I see you have chosen racism
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Conservatives have been going hard after diversity programs. They’ve been banned in state educational institutions in Texas.
I ended up adding a whole section in my course syllabus that’s basically a middle finger to the new rules and makes is clear that intolerance is not welcome in my class.
It stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
It’s essentially another way to treat minorities more fairly, so (American) conservatives want to get rid of it
It’s essentially another way to treat minorities more fairly
On paper.
In practice, it’s more bureaucratic wall papering and cya, intended to obscure industry practices that continue to almost exclusively promote through nepotism and political graft.
Access to government contracts and Senate seats and Ivy League fraternities and Wall Street bank management positions continues to be a White Boys Only club.
