DEI or MEI to hire workforce

[Dill]

(06-16-2024, 06:25 PM)pally Wrote: Polling indicated that Republicans and conservatives were less enthusiastic about voting than Democrats in 2020  It worked so now they are upping their game with DEI.  
 We've seen this gameplan before.  It is just another way for MAGA powers that be to use to convince their followers that they are the victims in this society 

Yeah, I think it's rather like the anti-Sharia movement, then CRT, then Trans restrooms. And it makes political sense. 

A lot of meme-level "knowledge" about racial discrimination and "the left" is generated through social media activity and RWM prompts. 
Remember the role DEI played in conspiracy theories about the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore Harbor. 

A Harvard School of Public Health poll back in 2017 showed that a majority of white Americans then thought that whites were discriminated against
in hiring and receipt of government services. An anti-DEI crusade would likely feel just to most of those people.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/poll-white-americans-discrimination/.

Anti-DEI might be a more serious threat than previous propaganda successes, though, given the moment. 
If Trump wins, I do expect him and his team to implement their Project 2025, which will actively target civil rights gains women and minorities 
have achieved over the last 70 years as DEI violations of federal laws against non-discrimination. (See Chapter 17 https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-17.pdf, 561-62 .)

The recent injunction against the Black female owned Fearless Foundation in Georgia, to block a business grant issued only to Black women on the grounds it is racially discriminatory, gives some indication of where anti-DEI movement could be leading. The injunction was brought by the Alliance for Equal Rights, the group behind the Students for Fair Admissions Inc. SCOTUS decision, which blocks affirmative action in higher education. 
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpyzmjbqvg/09302023fearless.pdf.