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Is it DEI, IED or DIE? Yes, it is!
American Thinker ^ | 02/22/2023 | R.W. Trewyn

Posted on 02/22/2023 9:12:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, has become a driving force in hiring practices across America. It’s replacing equal employment opportunity, EEO, in today’s discussions when new employees are recruited.

Within major corporations, universities, and elsewhere, executives specializing in DEI have become common. As these entities upgrade to the more fashionable DEI officers, EEO managers will become obsolete.

Why? They serve the same purpose, right?

Wrong! In fact, it’s not even close.

When America’s woke progressives successfully snookered the nation into accepting equity (the impractical pursuits of equal outcomes) as a replacement for equality (equal opportunity) the ballgame changed, majorly. The topline issue is no longer about hiring the applicant with the best credentials to do the work. Today, training and experience for a job barely count with DEI employers.

A quote by investigative historian A.E. Samaan summarizes the problem: “You can’t have ‘equal opportunity’ if you put your thumb on the scales in an effort to force equal results.” The equity thumb negates equality. That’s pretty straightforward, but it’s where diversity and inclusion come into play. They are used to getting to equity, bypassing those formerly pesky EEO hurdles known as job qualifications.

So, how do diversity and inclusion make that happen?

First, definitions of the base words for those two terms, diverse and inclusive, help illuminate the answer. Diverse can be defined as, “differing from one another” and a simple two-word definition for inclusive is, “including everyone”.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: diversity; equity; inclusion; race
Today, it’s no longer about judging the candidate pool for the most qualified individual. It’s now about “including everyone” in the unit and/or entity doing the hiring and determining if one of the potential new employees fulfills the “differing from one another” criteria. Inclusion then dictates that that person should be the hire, and equity — “thumb on the scales” — has been achieved.
1 posted on 02/22/2023 9:12:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

and according to the intersectionality chart

black lesbians will rule the world


2 posted on 02/22/2023 9:35:06 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SeekAndFind

My manager, when conducting interviews for a position in my company, told me that 1 of the candidates was a “she-male”. It was fairly well qualified. I told him that when I hired people for positions in the past, our HR department said I could disqualify a person based on my position that they “would not be a good fit” and that’s it. I told him i hope he thought this person wouldn’t be a good fit!


3 posted on 02/22/2023 9:44:26 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Conservatives should ALWAYS use DIE for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity mandates. What difference does it make if we change the order? You’re going to have to go through Special High Intensity Training to understand it! Think about that. Words matter and the order of the words matter when it comes to acronyms!


4 posted on 02/22/2023 9:54:55 PM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s just discrimination against White males.

Period. Nothing more.


5 posted on 02/22/2023 9:57:46 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jiim)
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To: Regulator

It’s all about bringing about Socialism.

All opposition to socialism is racist.


6 posted on 02/22/2023 9:58:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

And we know that the Original Sin is *gasp* Racism so only Sinners can be against Sacred Socialism


7 posted on 02/22/2023 10:08:02 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jiim)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wait til you need surgery and your cardiologist or anesthesiologist has NEVER cut before but boy they check ALL the boxes.


8 posted on 02/22/2023 10:14:59 PM PST by Singermom
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To: SeekAndFind

Bfl


9 posted on 02/23/2023 1:32:05 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve got a great idea. Let’s establish a medical school and have only members of the “protected classes” be allowed to enter it, or teach at it. Then put all “graduates” in one practice. Let’s also establish a flight school, using the same criteria, and hire all the “graduates” to staff one airline. Diversity Doctors, Inc. and Diversity Airlines, Inc.

Then we insist that all the advocates of DEI tyranny use ONLY those two companies for all their medical and airline services.

And watch them scream.


10 posted on 02/23/2023 2:17:36 AM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: Regulator

“When America’s woke progressives successfully snookered the nation into accepting equity…”

And, I reject this premise.


11 posted on 02/23/2023 3:47:47 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: missnry
Conservatives should ALWAYS use DIE for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity mandates.

Word. DIE (and progressives) are destroying America.

12 posted on 02/23/2023 3:50:17 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: vpintheak

Gestapo like departments in corporations that will oversee and administer direction for the hiring practices of DEI. This is a cancer that will over rule experience, logic, best candidates and whiteness. South africa here we come


13 posted on 02/23/2023 3:57:01 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Much more appropriate is SOB (Special Opportunities for Blacks).


14 posted on 02/23/2023 3:57:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Regulator
Just like the Eventual Elimination Of Caucasians.
15 posted on 02/23/2023 4:24:42 AM PST by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: SeekAndFind

Our parents fought the prejudice battles, I was part of a female quota in law school, these inclusion mandates are total bull hockey, and what ever happened to hiring on merit and aptitude? Do we have to hire an overweight or too short basketball player under inclusion? or a surgeon with no hands? The whole thing is complete crap.


16 posted on 02/23/2023 6:22:26 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: SeekAndFind
It’s now about “including everyone”

Even that is not true, because there are many who are not included or even considered if they have the wrong "values".

17 posted on 02/23/2023 6:23:17 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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