Its so surreal seeing like DEI being blamed for company failures. I’ve been to DEI trainings. It’s like 3 or 4 meetings in an entire year lmao. Many people have like 6 meetings in a day. It didn’t make upper management stop being assholes either. Like how big of a baby do you have to be to think that the DEI trainings made a difference, let alone actually affect company operations?
I don’t know why, but this post has been like a mind virus to me, trying to intuit out the first ones using context clues. For those who don’t want to zoom in on pixels or google extensively, here:
Term Kind Description ??? ??? - Could be 5% sure this is “field hand” ??? - About 30% sure this might be “servants” Colored Slur A more acceptable form now in the modern term “person of color/POC” Welfare Queens Very Derogatory Pejorative Term disproportionately associated with Black, single mothers, stereotyping them as intentionally committing welfare fraud Urban Pejorative More of a euphemism, not so derogatory except in fairly specific contexts PC Satirical Pejorative (Politically Correct); interesting because even among leftists it was mostly a form of self-satire before being adopted as a pejorative by conservatives; in modern use isn’t so much of a direct derogatory as a downplaying of discriminatory circumstances SJW Pejorative (Social Justice Warrior); the least racially charged item in this list, just a pejorative for a progressive or leftist who is vocal Woke Vernacular / Pejorative African American Vernacular English for alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination; co-opted by conservatives as a pejorative yet still largely used by all sides of the political spectrum despite generally having moved beyond the concept of race only CRT Technical (Critical Race Theory); academic field considering racism to be systemic; despite being an entire field since the ‘60s, conservatives began seeking to ban the instruction of CRT in 2020 DEI Technical (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion); linked values used to define organizational frameworks that better represent historically discriminated groups including those across race and gender; has been called into blame by conservatives for several tragedies, the blatantly racist implication being that people of color are being hired despite being ill-equipped to perform What do the first four on the left say?
I think the rightmost of them says welfare queens, but luckily for my mental health I’m not knowledgeable enough about right wing fear-mongering to guess the others
Fuck. I see it now. I think the 3rd says “colored.” I’m genuinely afraid of the remaining two.
It’s not worth knowing. It’s all ugly and gets uglier as it goes back. Nostalgia holds no sway here.
What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?
I just don’t want them in our schools. Pointing particle accelerators at my kids makes me nervous.
What does dei mean?
Diversity, equality, and inclusion.
And folks are openly against that? …why?
It’s much of the MAGA Republican’s internal platform right now.
They believe DEI policies are a George Soros funded Global Progressive Communist plot to destroy society by destroying meritocracy for white men, and nuclear families.
So basically they think anyone who isn’t a white man is obviously bad at their job, and only got it because of being a minority. They believe this issue to be about racism (against whites).
They believe in equality of opportunity, but see ideological attempts aimed at hiring minorities as being about “equality of outcome” - and hence a kind of Communism.
They also don’t like Inclusion, because they think it’s aimed at making children gay and trans, and destroying “white culture/Christianity/marriage/family”.
edit i don’t think it’s even close to any of these, see this comment for my closer guesses: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/6369471
i can’t find the original with my reverse image search abilities but i asked chatgpt to produce similar terms to sate those with morbid curiosity:
These terms have been used or co-opted in racially or politically charged contexts. Here are some additional examples:
- Affirmative Action
- Inner City
- Illegal Alien
- Thug
- Anchor Baby
- Diversity Hire
- Model Minority
- Low-Information Voters
- Globalist
- Ghetto
- Illegal Immigrant
- Third World
- Radical
- Cultural Marxism
These terms can be problematic when used to stereotype or marginalize certain groups based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
they’re in a timeline. You have to find the fearmonger dog whistle that came before the welfare queens.
