Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by pc86 on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:00PM (#42659504)

Yes I see you doing this all over the thread italicizing the same words and using them slightly differently, I'm not sure what point you're trying to prove.

ADA predates DEI by a couple decades. Lots of people, including Republicans, support the ADA and support expanding its protections.

This is a pretty standard tactic of partisans when their pet issue becomes unpopular - take something unrelated, or at best tangentially related, and pretend it's related or that that's what they've been advocating for all along.

I don't care if you support the ADA or you don't. I don't care if you support DEI or you don't. But they're different, they've never been related, and any attempt by partisans on the left to lump them together is just trying to reframe the issue as "against DEI == against the ADA" because of course everyone on the right hates disabled people right?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by dalmo3 on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:33PM (#42659844)

It's called Motte and Bailey fallacy.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by ceejayoz on Saturday January 11, 2025 @12:15PM (#42667277)

False allegations of that are themselves a fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by ceejayoz on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:02PM (#42659524)

> Lots of people, including Republicans, support the ADA and support expanding its protections.

Now, sure. At the time? Same sort of bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...

Both are rooted in the same concept - that people should have fair opportunity to participate in society even if different in some ways.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by pc86 on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:14PM (#42659623)

Scroll up a couple lines from your link and take a look at the sponsor, who Republicans nominated to be President. So no, your partisan assertion is nonsense.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by ceejayoz on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:05PM (#42660213)

Tom Harkin? The Democrat?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by pc86 on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:46AM (#42684706)

We're both wrong. I was referring to Dole who was not a sponsor but was a supporter and advocate.

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