Just because they abuse the crap out of a valid point doesn’t mean the point is bad
If you go to a doctor, you do that merit based. When hiring a nuclear inspector (or a garbage collector, for that matter) you shouldn’t care about skin color, sexual orientation, gender expression, religious beliefs, height, age, etc… the only thing that should matter is merit. Is the person capable of performing these duties? Yes? You’re hired.
Skipping that for whatever reason is a really bad idea.
So yeah, these asshats are abusing the point just to discriminate, that doesn’t make the point itself bad
Yes, people want skilled professionals. Who says they shouldn’t? They should also care about a system that favors a dominant class largely because of historic access to (stolen) capital. After all, that would reduce competition and competency.
What’s being implied by bringing up “merit” as antithetical to DEI is that you can’t trust people outside of the dominant class to do the work competently. If that were the case, the problem is not DEI, it’s upstream: fair access to education and opportunities, but I don’t hear DEI opponents crying about that.
Please stop that nonsense
Just because they abuse the crap out of a valid point doesn’t mean the point is bad
If you go to a doctor, you do that merit based. When hiring a nuclear inspector (or a garbage collector, for that matter) you shouldn’t care about skin color, sexual orientation, gender expression, religious beliefs, height, age, etc… the only thing that should matter is merit. Is the person capable of performing these duties? Yes? You’re hired.
Skipping that for whatever reason is a really bad idea.
So yeah, these asshats are abusing the point just to discriminate, that doesn’t make the point itself bad
What nonsense? Look it up in a thesaurus.
Yes, people want skilled professionals. Who says they shouldn’t? They should also care about a system that favors a dominant class largely because of historic access to (stolen) capital. After all, that would reduce competition and competency.
What’s being implied by bringing up “merit” as antithetical to DEI is that you can’t trust people outside of the dominant class to do the work competently. If that were the case, the problem is not DEI, it’s upstream: fair access to education and opportunities, but I don’t hear DEI opponents crying about that.
That’s all fine and dandy if the system treats everyone fairly from birth and we know that is just not the case.