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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by ceejayoz on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:07PM (#42658131)
George Floyd's "incident" was in 2020.

DEI efforts long predate that date.

2011: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13583

2019: https://time.com/5696943/diversity-business/

> A 2019 survey of 234 companies in the S&P 500 found that 63% of the diversity professionals had been appointed or promoted to their roles during the past three years. In March 2018, the job site Indeed reported that postings for diversity and inclusion professionals had risen 35% in the previous two years.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by 650REDHAIR on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:05PM (#42658106)
Do you have any sources for that opening statement?
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by jf22 on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:08PM (#42658143)
I think being alive in 2020 is a good enough source for this one.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by ceejayoz on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:13PM (#42658212)
George Floyd's being alive for part of 2020 debunks it, unless the various DEI programs predating 2020 were somehow created via a time machine.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by jf22 on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:35PM (#42659868)
Of course DEI existed before 2020 but Floyd's death certainly escalated the situation.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by mlloyd on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:23PM (#42658363)
Yep. What this shows is that companies sway with what they perceive is public opinion. From Floyd to Trump, companies are shaping their internal public facing policies to mirror where they think the public is on social issues.

Lesson taught and learned.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by skywhopper on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:12PM (#42658201)
What about being alive before 2020?
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by skywhopper on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:11PM (#42658191)
You have a completely distorted view of the history of these programs which LONG predate 2020. Unfortunately so do a lot of people.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by resoluteteeth on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:27PM (#42658419)
I think they may confused because 1) the specific phrase "diversity, equity, inclusion" and term "DEI" only really started to be common around 2019-2020, and 2) DEI only really entered the public discourse in the past couple years.

This is causing people who were not that aware of these topics before to jump to the incorrect conclusion that because they weren't seeing discussion of "DEI" before that period, corporate diversity programs in general must be recent, whereas in reality it's only this specific name for them that is recent.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by inglor_cz on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:17PM (#42658288)
Not the OP, but I think that it would be fair to say that these ideas peaked during that time.

For me, the photo of Wells Fargo managers kneeling in front of their huge money safes will always be the icon of that time. You cannot really get more performative than that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/banks-sna...

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