PieFedMeta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’
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return2ozma@lemmy.world
return2ozma@lemmy.world
www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24340846/meta-disban…
Corporations never accepted women, blacks, latinos, LGBTQ+, and other minorities because they thought they were human beings with an inalienable right to representation and are a part of the human communtiy.
No, no, no, the only thing corporations ever cared about was that they were leaving money on the table. Selling stuff to those groups was profitable, as was hiring people from those groups. A bigger pool of potential customers and laborers.
Now that profits have been mildly impacted, they're going to make it *very* clear that if they think you're unprofitable that you don't deserve representation or rights.
Just to be clear, it's always been this way, the mask is just off and they're being very honest about it being about profits, not people. The queer kids were always right to call it "Pinkwashing" and "Rainbow Capitalism." This is how the game has always been played, *they never cared about us as humans.*
It seems counterintuitive because accepting more people means accepting money from more people. Pushing away potential customers for no reason is just plain stupid
You’re not thinking of the other side - the assholes that see those people being represented and catered to and deciding to take their money elsewhere because they disagree that those people deserve representation.
To be fair, corporations have never cared about *anybody* as humans. They view us as objects to be sucked of any wealth they can extract.
True, but for a long time when it was mostly only straight white men who were successful, they lied to themselves about it.
Isn't that what it's supposed to be? It has only become "charged" by being unpopular with the new fascist regime.
It also became charged when used as a topic of brain-dead culture war... which was mostly pushed on platforms like those by Meta.
the wrong groups are getting preferential treatment!!!!
how about no one gets preferential treatment? is that an option?
That was the aim of DEI. Otherwise the usual groups get de facto preferential treatment. It's not so simple as just "do nothing and everyone gets a fair shot."
an eye for an eye has clearly left everyone blind
In addition to what floofloof said which is correct: consider if I came to your house and took some of your favorite things then declared "ok no more stealing!" Is that suddenly fair?
They’re scared of being harassed by Trump
Look At Dana, He's The Captain Now