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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by davidgay on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:54PM (#42662584)
> Hell, England has not even forgotten about the Norman conquest of 1066.

I feel that's overstating it a bit. But my mother (English) was definitely brought up in a context that had not forgotten about Napoleon - Napoleon was viewed/presented as comparable to Hitler.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by scott_w on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:28AM (#42672099)
Not really: the descendants of the Norman conquest remain some of the wealthiest landowners in England.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-h...

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday January 12, 2025 @08:06PM (#42678870)
I've seen these claims (in much more detailed form that the Guardian link lays out, even the link it offers to one of its own articles to back up the claim).

I'd really like to see some differentiation between:

  * a disproportionate number of people of Norman descent remain some of the wealthiest landowners in England
and

  * a disproportion number of the wealthiest landowners in England are of Norman descent
Since these are quite different claims.
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