If DEI is a good thing why
If DEI is a good thing, why are people upset when you call someone a DEI hire?
If DEI is a good thing, why are people upset when you call someone a DEI hire?
Because DEI is Racist and it's Racist when you Judge groups of people, not individually
sharePeople get upset because it suggest that the person is not qualified for the position they have, and no one want to feel like they didn’t earn.
It’s a double edged sword, because they will claim it’s needed, but then they never want to admit that anyone benefits from it.
The real question is that if everyone is qualified and achieving, why do we need it?
It is a good thing, but like anything else policy-wise, it can be taken too far. It hasn't. It won't.
We all know that Biden selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African American woman to serve on the Supreme Court, and he said in advance that his pick would be based on diversity. This is great. She's a non-legacy Harvard grad with as extensive a background as anyone else in the running and is still fully qualified. Her reasoning skills and arguments will, no doubt, be influenced by having different experiences that may have been previously underrepresented in public life.
Consider this hypothetical. What if during the course of Biden's term, all nine Supreme Court justices died or were otherwise forced to retire due to some debilitating illness? Then, what if Biden had appointed all nine replacements as all black women? That's when it goes too far. Diversity means variety. The goal is that an administrative body, whether an Executive Cabinet or court, or something else, has the possibility of bringing a wide range of worldviews. This all falls in with the theme of "democracy" as well. This possibility of this scenario with nine justices of such narrow ethnic range is so absurd that we wisely can conclude that using "DEI" as a buzzword to generate fear-based backlash is quite a sophomoric strategy.
So, DEI and affirmative action is entirely an embracable idea, and should be welcomed.
Was Kamala Harris a DEI hire? Perhaps, yes, to some extent. In order to drive policy, one must first GET ELECTED to begin with. Biden mobilized his voters with such a game-changing pick, and they are now in positions of power because of it. She was more than this, though! If you follow Democratic Party politics closely, it was clear Biden and Harris had good chemistry and complimentary outlooks from their early primary debates. Harris was a fantastic politician who went on the attack and prosecuted a lofty case against Biden, and he respected her zeal. He wanted her as a campaigner. Harris destroyed Mike Pence during the 2020 debate. He was so demolished that he began to decompose before our eyes and a fly tried to feast on the forehead of his carcass.
President Joe Biden's endorsement of Kamala Harris is quite satisfactory in my eyes, and I'm a proud white man. It's clear that MAGA Trumpists are using "DEI" to sow the seeds of implicit racist disillusionment among their constituencies. Democrats must combat these attitudes.
It's because they know it's a crutch, and that they didn't actually earn the position, and they hate people calling them out on it. What's interesting is how their little minds go blank and confused if you tell them that it's a form of racism towards white people, because apparently they don't think anti-white racism exists or should be seen as a bad thing on par with being racist towards non-whites.
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