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Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

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Re: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

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Post by ok_dad »

mike_hearn wrote: post #555
fourside wrote: post #492

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> may disadvantage my business by making my own products (build from their components) worse One of the biggest wins for the anti-DEI crowd was convincing people that embracing DEI implicitly meant getting something of lesser quality or value. Here, you assume that focusing on businesses owned by people of color necessitates lowering your standards of your suppliers below acceptable levels.

It does require lowering standards and quality, by definition, because in the absence of DEI pressure campaigns they'd have been selecting suppliers based on standards and quality by default. Any other criteria inherently trades off against that. And you seem to know that's true because your claim slides smoothly from "getting something of lesser quality" to "lowering standards below acceptable levels" which aren't t…

I can tell you, even a massive corporation that makes medical devices definitely does NOT choose their suppliers just by quality, a LOT of the suppliers we used were thanks to "people who know people", such as the painter that sucked but was buds with the plant manager so we kept dumping money into his company to fix their deficiencies.

The biggest lie that they told you was that the world actually works on merit: it does not.

Re: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

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Post by iaseiadit »

firefoxd wrote: post #184

I wrote about my experience working as a software developer and being black in the industry and I was lucky to have it published on BBC [1]. What immediately followed, every large company reached out to have me work as a consultant for their diversity program. I found it fascinating that they had a team of DEI experts in place already. Like what makes one an expert? In addition to my job, I spent nights developing pr…

I can only speak from personal experience, but since about 4 years ago, every candidate I’ve been asked to interview for a software engineering position has been Black, Hispanic, South Asian or East Asian. Not a single white American.

Are there no white people studying CS anymore or looking for jobs? Did they all stop applying?

Again, it’s only from personal experience. I never asked any of my coworkers a “hey, do you ever interview white people?”, so it could be a coincidence that I was never matched with any. But I don’t think that’s the most likely explanation…

Re: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

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Post by mempko »

rendang wrote: post #286
mempko wrote: post #116

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I created a new account on Twitter to see what new users see and the website is unusable. It's basically 4chan now with Elon Musk and sports. Anyone defending people should try it. See how long you don't see and Elon Musk post or other hateful far right content.

I use it every day and my feed is full of intelligent, thoughtful analysis and discussion. Even the edgy humor is much more clever and subtle than what you'd find on Reddit or 4chan

Read my post again. Try creating a new account and see the content you get.

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Post by sergiotapia »

77pt77 wrote: post #653
sergiotapia wrote: post #565

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Calling gay people "mentally ill" is sane, but even implying that religious people are not all there being punishable is the "world becoming sane"?

pretty reductionist view of everything he wrote.

Re: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

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Post by [deleted] »

jjulius wrote: post #702
jmcdowell wrote: post #531

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I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be. Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is very defensive and has taken social media companies to court for the sum of 30 billion (never mentioning why). He laments how the US government need to be more protective of US tech companies overseas specifically naming the EU. When talking…

This requires us to trust what comes out of his mouth. If folk are still doing that after all this time, I've got a mighty large bridge you'd likely be interested in purchasing.

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Post by thefounder »

I hope this extends to the media/movie industry. If there is one reason I would have voted for Trump that would have been to stop the flood of DEI in movies.

Couldn't watch a movie without a gay scene even if it had no sense in the movie. The exception became the norm.

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Post by ConspiracyFact »

zmgsabst wrote: post #676
lolinder wrote: post #371

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Yes. What too few people realized was that the rollout of DEI was driven by what was trending at the time, designed to win political points with the groups that were politically ascendant. These programs were never a victory for the principles or the people, they were marketing. So it should come as no shock whatsoever that now that another political group is politically ascendant the marketing that is valuable has c…

There hasn’t been a decade in the past 130 years of their existence that Progressives haven’t advocated for systemic racism. We have dozens of programs that were later legislated against or later ruled illegal by courts. There was no time Progressives were against racism. Notable black leaders like Malcolm X correctly pointed out that white Progressives never supported black people — but were appropriating their voic…

This is pretty spot-on. Whether they’re aware of it or not, most white liberals are motivated not by a desire to lift nonwhites up but rather by a desire to push “white trash” down.
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