I saw the announcement that Meta is rolling back DEI (along Wal Mart, Amazon and many other major companies) and I couldn’t be happier. https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump
DEI ultimately hurts the supposed people it claims to empower. When you tell a black person they need “special assistance” because of their skin color it’s also telling them they lack agency and intelligence to get ahead on with their own ability. When you tell a woman she can be a fire fighter despite her lacking the physical strength to do the job it can get people killed.
When you tell people their are “special” if they are LBTQ then some of them are further incentivized to pursue extremely self destructive decisions (sex changes)
The acronym for DEI should have been Didn’t Earn It. And even though some non-intersectional people (e. g. white males) might be supportive on the surface in reality it has created a lot of animosity and resentment. DEI only ultimately creates more division, hatred, racism and sexism.
Anyway I believe we are on the cusp of a new era. However that absolutely does not mean I don’t want minorities, women and gay people to be discriminated against. But what matters most is respect and respect is earned. It’s not something you will can ever truly earn because of your gender (or prior gender), race or sexual orientation. The greatest minority is the individual.
DEI drives people in the opposite direction given it’s blatant institutional prejudice and discrimination against non “intersectional” people. Even intersectional people are noticing this bullshit (e. g. critical race theory) and a lot of them are not stupid. They realize how destructive these government policies can be in the long run.
That’s what the GOP made a huge inroads with minority voters in the November 2024 election.

Also I believe many people were misled with the feel good happy terms leftists come up with. Many people don’t know the difference between “equality” (equal opportunity which is a good thing) vs. “equity” which is a bullshit euphemism for government forced discrimination.
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