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As an American (or at least a non Japanese native) if my boss came up to me yelling and swearing in my face I would punch him out cold.

Actually if more Japanese did this I think things would improve at the office.

I’ve always disliked this tactic, claiming that acknowledging one thing means someone doesn’t care about it. While I agree that these people are full of hot air, your comment contributes nothing to the discussion.

DEI would not have prevented these hires, as they resulted from nepotism.

I believe we are conflating these two issues and failing to recognize why DEI hiring has some positive effects. By requiring employers to diversify their hiring practices, DEI initiatives inadvertently help combat nepotism, an unforeseen benefit of these policies.

One of the best things about the unvaxxed is that they Darwin award themselves so future generations don’t have to worry about them.

And I give trump three weeks to vacate the white House and the presidency.

I mean why wouldn’t you know! They’re a good band!

You bring up a very good point that the industry itself might be flawed.

The issue for me—and the reason I made my original statement—is that we can’t curtail human nature. By its nature, considering DEI aspects in hiring can potentially taint the criteria by which candidates are selected.

I’m not saying that cronyism and nepotism aren’t very real and serious issues across various industries and countries. However, DEI feels like a similar practice—just framed differently. It leads companies to hire a specific type of person for the wrong reasons rather than hiring the right person for the right reasons.

Moreover, in the U.S., only about 43% of the population is non-white. That means that, on any given job application, roughly 50% of the applicants are likely to be white. If a large business has an employee pool that is significantly more than 50% non-white, that suggests the industry is hiring with a specific demographic in mind—not based on merit, but based on ethnicity, appearance, or political beliefs. I think we can both agree that, in most industries, those factors should not be relevant.

I will contend that actually is more or less the case. Considering it is simply human nature to be more lazy than more productive.

If hiring personnel are dictated to hire more on dei then on merit that’s what they’re going to do.

I’m not saying that this is happening industry-wide across an entire population.

I’m just simply stating that it’s a concern that this might be happening.

My concern is that dei hiring practices are curtailing merit based hiring.

I don’t care either way what ones political affiliations are or what one identifys as as long as they’re the best for the job.

(This is simply a critical assessment of the issue and does not reflect any personal views on dei or what some refer to as woke)