news Amazon joins Meta and will halt DEI programs

[Chemist]

 

[Cheers]

This is happening throughout the nation. I'm not really surprised. DEI jobs have huge turnover rates. 

[Temporal]

The next four years are about to be so ******* bleak.

[SinnerCity]

Time to:

 

1. Have a revolutionary new social platform so Meta can go to ****

 

2. Amazon is still pretty **** as a corporation, this won't change anything.

 

3. Let's see how many companies change their logo in June 

[Domination]

I think DEI as a concept is a good thing but anyone who has spent 5 minutes in a corporate DEI training can tell you it is a farce and a waste of of time so nothing of value really lost here tbh.

 

I didn't work there but the stories my friends working at Twitter told me about the DEI initiatives in the 2010s  

[Mezik]

Ah so only white people will be able to get jobs when they probably aren't even the most qualified for the roles. Awesome.

[Reflektor]

1 hour ago, Domination said:

I think DEI as a concept is a good thing but anyone who has spent 5 minutes in a corporate DEI training can tell you it is a farce and a waste of of time so nothing of value really lost here tbh.

 

I didn't work there but the stories my friends working at Twitter told me about the DEI initiatives in the 2010s  

Also, let's not forget that this and the Juneteenth holiday were the best they could throw at the public to quell the 2020 protests while not fomenting any actual change. 
 

And it worked as we continue to see overbloated police budgets while avoiding any actual accountability for the pigs on the force.
 

These weren't worth anything to begin with! 

[Thuggin]

As much as I value the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, it's probably for the best that these programs end given the times that we're in. They put targets on the backs of minority groups without delivering sufficient material gain. And now you have every LGBTQ person or Black person with a job being called a DEI hire who didn't earn their place. Same with affirmative action, when these programs are gone, what then will conservatives blame for minority groups getting ahead?

[Damien M]

It's fine. Tech companies are no longer the shiny, progressive startups of the past. They have peaked and are in cultural decline.

They're the old guard now, like manufacturing used to be.

 

They should not be looked at for direction. They're now $$ hungry capitalist machines looking for cheap(-er) labor + political favors.

 

It's the cycle of life. Think of them like you would GM, Carrier or Johnson & Johnson.

[Communion]

3 hours ago, Domination said:

I think DEI as a concept is a good thing but anyone who has spent 5 minutes in a corporate DEI training can tell you it is a farce and a waste of of time so nothing of value really lost here tbh.

 

I didn't work there but the stories my friends working at Twitter told me about the DEI initiatives in the 2010s  

A lot of well-intentioned initiatives seem like they were sometimes exploited by the most privileged of the marginalized demographics it aimed to help. 

 

Like the aims of making sure people with marginalized identities are not discriminated against in hiring practices? Great

Addressing workplace harassment and policies that negatively and materially harm marginalized people (see: certain black hairstyles deemed 'unprofessional')? Great

 

While if you'd want to address the root causes (funding in low-income schools to get more people of a specific economic or ethnic background into STEM, for example), those new departments or branches in the company would be lobbying politicians for changes in laws, etc.

 

But instead of either happening, it felt like for every 1 positive policy win that had wider effects, there were 8 or so instances of someone from an affluent background but marginalized identity using these kinds of initiatives to personally enrich themselves and their friends in whatever career field that they were operating within. Lots of consulting happening for the sake of consulting, discussions of how to be inclusive without action, etc.

 

Which is like... werk, sis, get money! But we're now seeing the impact of not utilizing these levers of power to first ensure legal and structural victories for people over symbolic and personal ones. 

 

Basically what happens when policies become removed from understanding class / material reality as the ground issue of everything. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Communion

[Princess Aurora]

It looks like all that YouTube propaganda worked. I hate American society