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0 pointstills131y ago0 comments

Nobody is saying it's not happening but the notion that it's systemic -- as the opposite is -- is categorically a lie and, again, as you've been told a few times in this thread, DEI's goal is to prevent even this scenario from happening as its intended goal is to foster merit-only hiring.

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Gabriel541y ago

My most charitable reading of your comment is that the DEI policies were simply grossly misunderstood by the department in this case. Therefore, it would seem that an unintended consequence of DEI policies has been to foster the scenarios it was designed to prevent.

Jensson1y ago

> DEI's goal is to prevent even this scenario from happening as its intended goal is to foster merit-only hiring.

That was 20 years ago, today merit only hiring is called evil by the same people, there is a reason people started to get really against what they do lately.

chasing1y ago

(Psst: There's no such thing as purely merit-based hiring. And DEI's mostly just about just making sure perfectly capable individuals aren't passed over or alienated because they're not white men. Because that's what's been going on for most of the past -- checks notes -- 500 years of American history. Pass it on.)

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