Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes

Post by piva00 » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 11:55 AM UTC

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> Shouldn’t the people be wary of any type of authoritarian cabal? Yeah, and how do you expect the status quo authoritarian cabal to be dismantled while they are in power?

Not by replacing one authoritarian cabal with another authoritarian cabal! If the system isn’t working, fix the system don’t just adapt the broken system to serve your needs.

Post by geertj » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:01 PM UTC

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DEI was so good and righteous idea that it shifted most of the western world to the right more than dozens of islamist terrorist attacks in previous decades. And ofc. all US corporations would follow this cultural change or they’ll risk antitrust/tax/law investigations from Trump and all EU government that’ll be elected in next few years.

Can you share all the sources linking DEI policies to the right-wing shift? Because to me it looks more like a scapegoat post-factum where right-wingers tied themselves to the idea of DEI to fan the flames rather than it being a causal point. It's just another selling point for the hatred-fueled base of right-wingers, not too different from "immigrants are taking your jobs" or "women in the workforce are the cause of…

Post by mongol » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:07 PM UTC

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And by this same logic, the Nobel Committee for Physics has an obvious historical bias towards Jews, right? What else could explain 37 Jewish physics Nobel winners in the 20th century? People can simply be good at something. Maybe lesbian firefighters actually work very hard to overcome the expectations against them.

>And by this same logic, the Nobel Committee for Physics has an obvious historical bias towards Jews, right? No, because Ashkenazi Jews have been demonstrated to perform significantly better on IQ tests on average, and performance on IQ tests is associated with various intellectual outcomes like winning the Nobel Prize. On the other hand, lesbians haven't been demonstrated to perform better on any kind of metrics ass…

Post by slt2021 » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:13 PM UTC

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just look at the LA FD: what are the chances that 3 top leaders in FD are lesbian women? Given the fact that the rest of the fire dept are white males, the chances of this happening at random are minuscule. This is the proof that people who have DEI factors are promoted to the top leadership, with the predictable poor outcomes

> with the predictable poor outcomes Why predictable? Are lesbians incapable of being organised, unable to rebuild V8 engines, can't hold a hose because of its shape? Have you met a significant number of lesbians?

Post by geertj » Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 12:20 PM UTC

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>what the conservatives think DEI actually is Speaking as part of a video that aired during a commercial break for the FOX show 9-1-1 about firefighter capabilities, Larson said, "Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place" https://www.newsweek.com/lafd-deputy-chief-faces-backlash-pa... DEI means lowering standards to accomodate minorities and discrimination against more qualifie…

DEI means, thinking about your hiring practices and looking hard at yourself if the population of people you hire is out of proportion with the general population. DEI can be implemented badly, but that doesn’t mean that DEI is bad