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Re:Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academi... by wonderwonder on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:37PM (#34697018)
You are going to focus on whether or not his trainings use the exact terminology as mine when all he said was "similar" and just skip over " how much we helped non-white people get hired on the team"? This is outright racial discrimination and should be illegal. His complaint is even more egregious than mine.
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Re:Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academi... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:49PM (#34697194)
Well yes friend, because as presented the accusations seem almost farcical, and to me seem like the result of some misunderstanding, intentional or not. I'm trying to focus on a single topic instead of looking for ways to get further incensed.
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Re:Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academi... by wonderwonder on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:22PM (#34697823)
"the accusations seem almost farcical" Exactly, but they are very real requirements for us to keep the jobs that pay the salaries we use to feed our children. That is the reason we have such an issue with DEI or at least the way its implemented in the very real and very large corporations (40k+ employees) that we work for.

Here is what google returned on a quick search, a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company actively encouraging what the other poster said:

https://www.mercer.us/content/dam/mercer/attachments/north-a...

It focuses on the executive level but is it hard to imagine that it has filtered down to the lower levels in some companies?

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Re:Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academi... by wonderwonder on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:29PM (#34699984)
"the accusations seem almost farcical" Exactly! Yet they are the real lived experience we have to comply with in order to keep the jobs that provide the salary we use to feed our kids. That's why we are so against DEI as it stands today.
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