Having left the US for Europe two years ago I can confirm that life really is better without the "civil rights" regime. Almost every white collar worker works in an all white office including myself.
Until Americans can confront the truth that “the best talent” is undiverse - almost certainly immutably so - the DEI regime will morph and rebrand and shapeshift but never disappear. And if Americans couldn’t stomach that truth in an 85% white America, hard to see how they will at 45% white.
The best we can reasonably hope for is legal immunity for non-diverse enterprises - i.e. freedom of association - but even that is very optimistic imo. What can be done with executive order can be undone by the same method.
They really give the game away with this sentence: They continue to fear discrimination lawsuits from workers of color, women, LGBTQ people and those with disabilities— not to mention the wrath of investors and the press.
My knee-jerk reaction to associating civil rights was to be upset. (I was there in 1964-45 - the only white guy with a black room mate on my campus. And, all the admirable rich kids on my campus full of rich kids were black: all the rich white kids were jerks. )
Then, I though more about it. The left wants to link DEI to civil rights to get more losers of color into jobs they aren't qualified for. (Yes, there a many blacks who are qualified for real jobs but I doubt if any of the DEI people fall into that categories.)
Meritocracy is good. Nepotism is bad. DEI-based promotions are bad. just another form of nepotism. Sigh. I have finally figured out how to explain my objections to DEI: it isn't just one useless person, its the additional person who's primary job is covering up all the DEI person's screw-ups. And sometimes (in the aeronaut's words) the added competent person can't "unscrew the pooch". What ever group got the DEI person is less capable than it was before the addition of the DEI person and the person who has to fix their mistakes.
Having left the US for Europe two years ago I can confirm that life really is better without the "civil rights" regime. Almost every white collar worker works in an all white office including myself.
Until Americans can confront the truth that “the best talent” is undiverse - almost certainly immutably so - the DEI regime will morph and rebrand and shapeshift but never disappear. And if Americans couldn’t stomach that truth in an 85% white America, hard to see how they will at 45% white.
The best we can reasonably hope for is legal immunity for non-diverse enterprises - i.e. freedom of association - but even that is very optimistic imo. What can be done with executive order can be undone by the same method.
They really give the game away with this sentence: They continue to fear discrimination lawsuits from workers of color, women, LGBTQ people and those with disabilities— not to mention the wrath of investors and the press.
My knee-jerk reaction to associating civil rights was to be upset. (I was there in 1964-45 - the only white guy with a black room mate on my campus. And, all the admirable rich kids on my campus full of rich kids were black: all the rich white kids were jerks. )
Then, I though more about it. The left wants to link DEI to civil rights to get more losers of color into jobs they aren't qualified for. (Yes, there a many blacks who are qualified for real jobs but I doubt if any of the DEI people fall into that categories.)
Meritocracy is good. Nepotism is bad. DEI-based promotions are bad. just another form of nepotism. Sigh. I have finally figured out how to explain my objections to DEI: it isn't just one useless person, its the additional person who's primary job is covering up all the DEI person's screw-ups. And sometimes (in the aeronaut's words) the added competent person can't "unscrew the pooch". What ever group got the DEI person is less capable than it was before the addition of the DEI person and the person who has to fix their mistakes.
My fear is Target as a store will cave. The attempted boycott led by Al Sharpton seems to be working. He targeted Target for a boycott due to DEI being stopped by Target. Wish we could reverse that, but who knows. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dei-boycott-played-a-role-in-targets-q1-sales-slump-as-foot-traffic-declined-183135827.html
Black boycotts are less effective than White boycotts.
I agree, we should target all or most of MSNBC's advertisers for sure.