Ah yes. It's time for the latest installment of "Bad faith attacks against Black women in elite institutions."
We started with: "If you block hate speech we will say that you're against the 1st amendment and free speech, but if you listen to our demands and allow hate speech we'll call you antisemites."
Then we went to: "I can copy/paste from Wikipedia, but if you miss a quotation mark you are a fraud and unfit to be at Harvard."
Now we're on: "DEI programs are so expensive!"
No, they're not
"DEI programs are a waste of money!" Said unironically by dudes that backed Theranos and WeWork, that SPAC'd their way to failure, that wasted everyone's time and money for five years chasing crypto to nowhere.
DEI in the US, is solving the hardest and most consequential problem on earth: reducing the amount of racism in the US.
Without addressing US racism, we can't make progress on:
* Climate change
* Reproductive rights
* Wealth inequality
* Combatting global far-right white nationalism
The US is such a racist place that an effective attack on DEI programs is simply "This Black woman gets paid to teach companies about DEI!" 🤡
Seriously. Unpack that.
Why should DEI be a volunteer activity?
If a man shows up at IBM to teach their sales team to be better at sales, no one complains.
If a man shows up at Ford to reach their assembly line teams to be more efficient, no one complains. We call them Consultants.
But if she shows up to teach them DEI? Complaints! Crying! Sulking!
There is an art and a science behind DEI. There are entire schools of thought around how to do it effectively. So why shouldn't it be taught in universities?
And if universities are going to teach it, they should practice it. So why shouldn't there be full time university positions supporting DEI?
The company or university that is more inclusive, makes better use of its non-men, non-white staff. Which last I checked, was more than 75% of everyone. Why not take that improvement?
These dudes will keep attacking Black folk, in particular Black women. Nothing you say or do will get them to stop. But that's OK. I don't need them to stop.
What I need is for the rest of y'all to stop falling for it, over and over again. At some point you have to put two and two together, and see that these are all bad faith attacks.
These dudes don't care about antisemitism, or plagiarism, or the minutiae of higher education administrative budget review. They care about harming Black folk.
@mekkaokereke Companies and universities realize this. That why states like Florida are now banning it through legislation.
Like you said, when they have a change to be racist all other agendas fall away.
A NJ mayor called the police to remove a Black man from a municipal building because she and employees "didn't feel safe".
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