Re:The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
by paulryanrogers on Sunday July 23, 2023 @10:07AM
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Were the army or Marines truly blind meritocracies at every level, even within the officer corps? Because that would be impressive, and a sad thing to lose for vanity metrics.
Re:The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
by CapricornNoble on Sunday July 23, 2023 @11:58PM
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I was enlisted in the Army, and an officer in the Marine Corps. No organization is perfect but by-and-large, yes, I found even the officer ranks to be reasonably meritocratic. If anything the organization's biases were caused by your career background: Infantry Officers rule the Corps as a whole. Fighter pilots rule the Marine Aircraft Wings; every other professional specialty is definitely a second-class citizen.
Re:The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
by pauldenton on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:39AM
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The Marines don’t have any race problems. They treat everybody like they’re black.”- Gen Daniel “Chappie” James Jr., USAF, circa 1970.
As a contrarian data point, as a black man, when I see a company or other organization hit all the DEI talking points about embracing minorities, etc....I throw up in my mouth a little bit and head in the opposite direction. I prefer blind meritocracies, which is what both the Army and Marine Corps used to be when I joined them. Now....even the Marine Corps is looking to staff a DEI Officer in the National Capital Region (seriously).