Serious discussion on "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion"

[IM2]

Okay so you can't. Have a pleasant evening.

I did. And you know it. Keep avoiding the truth.

 

[Foxfyre]

When you're focusing on skin color and not on qualifications, how do you think that helps us?

That's maybe a better way of phrasing the question. But he seems to be not quite catching on to the concept.

 

[TemplarKormac]

That's maybe a better way of phrasing the question. But he seems to be not quite catching on to the concept.

It appears that way.

 

[Foxfyre]

That’s not necessarily what DEI means to all people.

So exactly what does DEI mean to you?

 

[TemplarKormac]

You focus on color only when you perceive it hurts whites.

No. I don't. I focus on merit and competence, which are irrespective of skin color.

Know your role.

 

[Marchimedes]

Stop crying.

That was sarcasm. Did you not get the other example of such in this thread?

Because I had to grow up with whites telling me how horrible, dumb, and inferior we blacks are.

You answer to a question I didn't ask.

Because I had to grow up with whites telling me how horrible, dumb, and inferior we blacks are.

Well, that's all horrible. I take it you grew up in South Africa under Apartheid?

Or...

A cage buried under a white trailer park in South Alabama?

(I could go on.)

Then there's the annual 3 weeks of slavery we had to learn about from k-12.

Oh good, common ground. Yea, I had to learn all that, too. All I really took away from all that was slavery is bad and a bunch of white people took up arms and ended that $h!t.

I still have to listen to that bullshit in places like this.

Then change the channel.

So go somewhere else with your white fragiity.

Seems to me the one calling for another one to go somewhere else and type is the fragile man.

What do I know? I don't speak puzzy.

 

[BackAgain]

I have read post after post at USMB, on X, on Facebook and elsewhere that:

1. Accuse Trump, Musk et al of racism, being Nazis, being fascists or whatever because they reject DEI in favor of qualifications, credentials, competence, effectiveness, efficiency, aptitude, vision, intuition .

2. Insist that society benefits when DEI is the criteria for hiring, appointments, promotions even if qualifications need to be lowered to achieve it.

Well if diversity is based on skin color I offer this chart for consideration:



And if LGBTQX++++ is to be included as the goal for DEI it further begs the question.

What question?

THIS QUESTION:
How does choosing people based on skin color, sexual orientation, gender preference, ethnicity, etc. improve the quality of life for all Americans? Makes America more free, more secure, more efficient, more effective, more prosperous? How does it make the military better? Commerce and industry better? Those values important to most American better?

Can we keep this more or less on topic and civil?

The sole serious thing I can say about “DEI” is that I cannot take DEI seriously.

 

[IM2]

That's maybe a better way of phrasing the question. But he seems to be not quite catching on to the concept.

Why do some whites not have the ability to understand that they have been the ones focusing on skin color? Why do some whites not understand that we see through your bs? You guys want to exclude everybody but whites again.

 

[IM2]

No. I don't. I focus on merit and competence, which are irrespective of skin color.

Know your role.

You focus on color. You assume that non-whites are being hired only because of their color and not their qualifications

 

[Marchimedes]

Racism is the name of the game now.

Do you have a problem with the facts?

So you, an idiot, shows up, submits that first gem, then if that's even the slightest bit questioned you imply that I have a problem with facts like your gem is a fact written in stone.

I leave it to you to find the flaw your own so-called logic.

Or...

Racism is the name of the game now.

Really? Despite my previous sarcasm when is this so-called new game gonna start affecting me? For instance, all my customers love me. "We love that Marchimedes, he can build, install, repair and destroy anything. We call him first. What's that you say? There's a new game in town and Marchimedes is white? Well fu(k why didn't somebody tell me before this. I shall now hire a black person to play with electricity near where I bath. In water. It's more impotent that I potentially more compared to the other guy that I die horribly than further white privilege and support unconscious racism..."

 

[TemplarKormac]

You focus on color. You assume that non-whites are being hired only because of their color and not their qualifications

No, people like you want people of color to be hired solely for their skin color.

You're not fooling a soul.

 

[Fang]

How do you figure? Sports have been one area of American life in which DEI has not been a factor at all.

Incorrect. Have you ever heard of the Rooney Rule? DEI is a major part of sports.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Whites such as you need to ask yourselves that question.

Nah. We're fine with the way we are. You're the ones preaching that people are looking down on you. You know damn well that's not true.

 

[Marchimedes]

whites

white

Whites

skin color

WHITES

whites

White

whites

You focus on color.

BOOM! Just like that, azzhole.

Your turn.

 

[IM2]

No, people like you want people of color to be hired solely for their skin color.

You're not fooling a soul.

Like I said, whites like you seem to have a problem understanding that you guys are the ONLY ONES who have done that. Hence your argument opposing policies trying stop that from happening means that you want to keep hiring whites solely based on skin color.

 

[IM2]

Incorrect. Have you ever heard of the Rooney Rule? DEI is a major part of sports.

Wrong. Qualified black coaches continue to be denied head caching jobs in the NFL.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Like I said, whites like you seem to have a problem understanding that you guys are the ONLY ONES who have done that. Hence your argument opposing policies trying stop that from happening means that you want to keep hiring whites solely based on skin color.

Lol.

"Whites"

You seem like you're focused on our skin color more than we are on yours.

Stop inventing racism where none exists.

 

[Marchimedes]

You assume that non-whites are being hired only because of their color and not their qualifications

So you are rejecting my job offer?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Wrong. Qualified black coaches continue to be denied head caching jobs in the NFL.

Coach Raheem Morris of the Atlanta Falcons would like a word with you.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Coach Raheem Morris of the Atlanta Falcons would like a word with you.

(and 8 other black NFL coaches)