Their wives are not dei because that’s not what dei means.
Don’t accept their language.
The theory behind DEI policies is to formally challenge personal bias (both explicit and subconscious) in hiring and participation. There’s nothing inherently tied to unfairly favoring minority groups other than the fact that they are usually the target of negative bias.
It’s a pretty basic and logical idea that acknowledges human fallibility. I hate that it was rapidly co-opted on all sides as a shorthand for racism and opposition to cis-white-male dominance.
It’s a position that could have been filled by a man but a woman was selected instead. hmmmmmm
bit idea: psyop conservatives into saying that gay sex is the most manly
Expecting consistency between beliefs and actions from bigots and fascists is a mistake.
They see their wives as property, not humans
DEI during hiring is things like:
- Making sure job postings are put up in spaces where minority populations have a similar chance to see them as majority populations. I.e. post at HBCU and Women’s colleges’ job boards, not just at the hiring manager’s alma mater.
- Making sure the application portal is accessible to those with disabilities
DEI during employment is things like:
- continuing unconscious bias training
- educating about the existence of diverse backgrounds and how that can benefit your team
- encouraging communication among your team members about how they approach problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve results
DEI is not (though the right commonly likes to use it this way):
- A slur for non-white male presenting people
- A diversity hire
- A socially acceptable term in lieu of the n-word
DEI during employment is things like:
continuing unconscious bias training educating about the existence of diverse backgrounds and how that can benefit your team encouraging communication among your team members about how they approach problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve resultsAnd this right here is why people don’t like it, and how the current administration is able to get away with the stuff they say.
“Laws for the, not for me”
Vance himself was a DEI student at Yale. Hypocrisy doesn’t matter.
You see, their wives are the good ones.
This kind of thinking happens all over MAGAland. People with undocumented spouses proudly voted for Trump because “he’s going to deport the illegals”, then they’re shocked when ICE shows up at their door. Their minds were so quick to interpret “illegals” as “others I don’t like” that they literally didn’t even realize their own spouses would be targeted.
This is the power of misinformation combined with cultivated hate.
Because it’s a class war
You’re making the error of assuming conservatives have a status quo, or a party line, or any agenda other than being evil.
They consider women pets. They aren’t people to them.
Ugh. I hate how correct you are:/
This is typical fascism. Was Hitler a member of the Aryan race? Blue eyed, blond hair? Nope. Dude wasn’t even German. Were any of his cadre? Nope.
Kim Jong Un reportedly doesn’t need to use the bathroom because he is so perfect.
Trump is cracking down on illegal immigrants. Married an illegal immigrant. He’s against chain migration. Melania chain migrated her family. Calls Biden sleepy Joe, then falls asleep during his trial. Says voting by mail is rampant with fraud. Votes by mail. None of this makes any sense!
To be clear, nobody actually thinks Kim Jong Un doesn’t need to use the restroom. You can say anything you want about the DPRK and people will believe you, which ends up being a clickbait race for tabloid media (which is where stories like the no peeing thing come from).
So this was just bullshit? I thought this was the party line.
Most of what’s reported about the DPRK is bullshit. It’s closer to Cuba than it is to, say, the mythical religious state that worships the party and eats rats that is often reported as.
Their goal is power, and they will use the most efficient and effective means at their disposal to secure it. Their actions are not guided by higher values or logic.
Don’t try to understand fascists, you have to give up logic to be one.
Conservatism consists of one core value: there should be laws that protect, but do not bind, the in group while the same laws bind, but do not protect, the out group.
People are not generally as self-reflective as you might think; when someone settles upon a core belief, they tend to stick with it for the rest of their lives, with any challenge to it being treated as a threat rather than as a potential opportunity for growth. You might think that when a core belief is completely wrong and leads to disastrous negative consequences that this might at be enough to lead someone to give it up, but strangely the mind does not actually work this way.
(I mean, I am not saying that these people are not also evil and/or oily snakes, but I think that there is value in observing the mental fallacies at work in others so that we can better spot them at work in ourselves, since our own mind is the one thing that we have at least some limited control over.)
