Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by xwolfi on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:03PM (#42662294)

But being white is really random: how is it my problem that the weather is shit in Normandy and all my ancestors are pale ? I arrive in the US, people would tell me I'm privileged somehow, when all I do is work hard and do my best to contribute to companies. And the same goes to more sunny weather-born people.

If we talked less about skin color, and a bit more about the actual nature of people (I can accept positive discrimination towards former slave families, they deserve compensation), maybe we'd accept those DEI policies more ?

It's a complex debate everywhere anyway, we have the same in France with our own colonial crosses to bear, and like what to do with a Tunisian freshly arrived vs a descendent of a Tunisian family who's been French for 3 generations.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by Dylan16807 on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:43PM (#42662810)

> people would tell me I'm privileged somehow, when all I do is work hard and do my best to contribute to companies

And they would be right. Do you have a definition of "privilege" in mind where that would be wrong? It's not a dirty word.

It's not a "problem" that you're white, it's just worth noting that if a near-identical clone of you was black the clone would face a worse experience.

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