“DEI” is an acronym.
“DEI: Didn’t Earn It,” says Krikit Murphy on Facebook.
Acronyms are designed to intimidate you. So are the words “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.” How can you possibly be AGAINST any of those things?
DEI is simply codeword for: “Merit and individual ability do not matter. Only race and gender matter. And we’re going to pretend that’s the truth.”
Nobody could survive five minutes going on DEI principles. If you were stranded on a desert island with 3 other people, you’d figure out how to survive by encouraging the best qualities in every individual. You wouldn’t say, “Let’s give the dark skinned person the most important roles, and the person confused about his gender the final say on everything.” You would say, “How can we survive? Who’s better at what? How can we get this done in all our interest the quickest way?”
Life in an advanced civilization requires more than bare survival skills. Oftentimes, we exercise simple choice about whom we wish to associate with, and whom we wish to stay away from. IT’S OK. It’s each and every individual’s prerogative. It’s called progress. Having more choices arises out of progress.
DEI creates imaginary problems and imposes a one-size-fits-all solution, for problems that mostly don’t exist. Even when real problems exist — yes, some people ARE racist or biased, though most are not, and most accused of being racist/sexist are not — DEI does nothing to solve anything. By taking the focus off INDIVIDUAL performance and favoring dark-skinned people and women over men and light-skinned people, you do a disservice to everyone. You’re also acting and thinking like a racist — indeed, you ARE a racist — the moment you elevate race as the most important factor in anything (ditto for gender).
When an individual white man has more demonstrated ability at some task, you’re cheating him out of his right to be all he can be by forcing someone of less ability to take over for him. You’re also cheating the improperly elevated persons out of the opportunity to enjoy those benefits from their superior colleague. And when you give the elevated DEI persons more responsibility than they can handle, you make them look foolish and incapable. You generate unfounded racial and gender generalizations, rather than eliminating them.
In the 1970s and 1980s DEI was called “affirmative action.” The euphemism and the concept disappeared, after a few decades. Now the advocates of DEI act and sneer as if this B.S. has never been tried before. Good grief. How stupid do they think we are?
How stupid are we to play along with it?
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