Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”

Meta claims it will find other ways to hire employees from different backgrounds.

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[Sajuuk]

I didn't think I'd be pining for the days of rainbow capitalism so soon. The masks sure were lubed and ready to come off, huh.

 

[Sajuuk]

I was expecting the billionaire class to fall in line, but it's honestly kind of scary just how quickly they're doing it.

We're talking about the same billionaires that literally bankrolled the fall, after all.

 

[Sajuuk]

You know this is code for “hiring exclusively white men,” right?

By some wackity-smackity coincidence, our society of pure meritocracy and quality is all white and all male!

 

[Sajuuk]

Found this pic of him caught unprepared for a photo at home

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How dare you compare Denzel to the soulless husk of Zuck.

 

[Sajuuk]

Why don't corporations jump this high when democrats are in power?

That's easy: democratic politicians are spineless fucking babies who are categorically incapable of fighting corporations because they are fundamentally of a kind.

 

[Sajuuk]

It's sad to see so many negative comments. Folks, I don't know how so many can possibly believe this move is bad. It isn't. It's a move toward meritocracy. It's the opposite of racist. and it most definitely isn't fascist, Nazi, or so the other comments I've read. Do you guys even know a conservative? As in real life? Or am I commenting to bots?

Do you guys even know a conservative?

How can we not? Trump hasn't shut the fuck up for 10 years.

 

[Sajuuk]

Well, actually. The comment might have had a point. Because whatever one might think of what the Republican party has become today, it's anything but conservative. People really need to stop using that word to refer to Republicans.

Fuck that noise. Conservative is what they call themselves, and this is what conservatives have always been. This is the direction every conservative party across the globe is following. This is the society they've always been wanting to conserve.

 

[Sajuuk]

I am 100% sure you don't. The garbage removal company for you home. Are you entirely sure it is ran by a decent person? The electric company? Producers for all your clothes? Components of your electronics? One slip, and you are not decent person.

It's not incredulity, it's the absurdity of identifying yourself with the products you use.

Skipping over the fact that the person you're quoting specifically said "when a choice is available" and you jumped to utilities which are typically a natural monopoly, let's discuss the insidiousness of the closing sentence.

It's not incredulity, it's the absurdity of identifying yourself with the products you use.

How can you not identify with the products you use in a capitalist society wherein consumption is culture? I'm constantly told that if I don't like something in this capitalist society, I can just not buy it, but the actual act of doing so is also considered laughable. Bit funny when you think about it, huh?

 

[Sajuuk]

If DEI is run the way so many people say it is, why would being a "DEI hire" be derogatory? Maybe people have noticed certain patterns for companies with DEI hiring policies.

The vast majority of companies have DEI policies of some sort, including (until recently, obviously) the very richest companies in the world. So, uh, what's the pattern exactly?

 

[Sajuuk]

The irony is that a shocking amount of the "we must have guns to protect us from tyranny" people chose to ally themselves with the rising tyrants.

That's not ironic at all. The US created the 2nd amendment so they could raise militias to kill indigenous peoples and take their stuff. Nazi Germany relaxed gun rights for real Germans so they could...kill undesirables and take their stuff.

 

[Sajuuk]

It was exactly the same back then. Have we all forgotten how corporations didn't give a rat's ass about DEI until they were essentially forced to? Corporations are not your friends. They exist to create wealth for their shareholders and if inclusion isn't achieving that, and it's now socially acceptable to drop it, they will. No big surprise.

Of course they're not friends, they're cultural mercenaries, but it's a pretty bad sign when your side stops being the one worth pandering to in favor of <checks notes> actual fucking Nazis.

 

[Sajuuk]

The shit in this comment section, where everyone who thinks this is a good thing gets called a racist, is exactly why the Democracts lost the election.

Classic.

 

[Sajuuk]

Not sure malice is at play here. Companies only did DEI in the first place because it was the financially correct thing to do at the time. No large company did it out of social responsibility or altruism. No large company is rolling it back out of malicious desires (save for X of course) they are doing it because they think it's going to keep their engagement, valuation and profits the highest in the short term.

Implementing a literal carve out in your rules saying "you can only call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill" feels pretty fucking specific and malicious to me.

 

[Sajuuk]

I’ve always described neoliberals as people who won’t be bigots to your face, but will continue to uphold and profit from the systems that oppress you.

Capitalists, in other words.

Because it doesn’t matter if your politics are red or blue - your money is still green.

What if we called it something friendlier and more ambiguous, though, like a third way? That'll trip people up for at least 30 years!

 

[Sajuuk]

I had it on good authority that Barack Obama was the most Marxist senator ever by representative Tom DeLay.

Race mixing is communism, so it all checks out!

 

[Sajuuk]

He did write that it was generally a bad thing. Know your enemy kind of stuff.

Of course, he also said once to Engels, that maybe they should find some poor people to get their opinion on the whole redistribution of wealth thing.

And the socialists who later did outreach in rural Imperial Russia were roundly rebuffed in favor of, you know, having a daddy emperor. Our collective Achilles heel really seems to reside in the knees.