bro crts are gone how is there moral panic about it. and what the fuck is dei? I thought the big thing now was oleds.
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I thought it was CRT -> LCD...
US politics has too many acronyms and becomes more incomprehensible by the day.
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I forgot what CRT was. It feels like its been years. Critical Race Theory, right? It was just a few months ago they were talking about it though.
Complaining about education (ex: common core) is pretty common because no one likes change. CRT could at least arguably be seen as a new subject matter / new way of teaching history that people wouldn't like. But DEI is... like going really mask off now.
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Wait a minute, guys… does this mean we stopped brainwashing kids to be trans? Let's make sure we're all on the same page of the playbook.
You guys keep coming up with different names for "not being an asshole", then some asshole comes and claims it's some evil scheme because the name's so fucking obscure that of course dumbasses are going to fall for that shit
Yet another tan suit.
Don't forget ESG. Conservatives love getting themselves worked up over corporate jargon
We got real close to "15 minute cities" but that doesn't light up the outrage centers of the brain like DEI I guess. Shame.
What is DEI? New conspiricy dropped? Heard it couple times over the last days but kinda missed it
Diversity Equity Inclusion, three things conservatives in every country hate.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
Thanks!
I thought they were pissing about something else between CRT and DEI, but I can't remember what it was. Shows you how shallow their rage machine actually is
There were a whole lot of people freaking out about being called "cis" for a minute.
Political Correctness > Woke > CRT > DEI > ??
Sooner or later somebody's going to have to admit that they're just never going to be happy.
Not unless they can own slaves again.
That's the ironic part. Even if we went back to 1800 the vast majority of these angry people wouldn't be slave owners because they wouldn't be able to afford it. They'd actually be far more likely to be debt-slaves than own any people themselves. The era they actually want to go back to is an idealized version of the 1950s, when you couldn't own people but you could call them slurs in public, they had separate drinking fountains, and they lived far away from you. Plus you could hit your wife if dinner didn't taste perfect, physical and mental abuse was how kids were raised (when you saw them at all), and one income could raise a family.
Sad how those last six words are the only thing we could agree on and should actually get back to, but it's cheaper for the owner class to stoke hate.
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Somehow, that evolution accurately captures the cultural progress we've made toward racial equality.
Forgot SJWs. Remember when we were Social Justice Warriors? That was funny.
Oh, good call. I prefer to be a Social Justice Paladin, myself.
Could I be a Social Justice Bard instead? Or maybe a Social Justice Warlock...
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Well, not until the people that aren't exactly like them are doing worse. In fact everyone has to do worse than them
How many iterations will it take for them to just say what they're really against: policies that promote empathy and compassion for people who are different
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I was confused about how people were angry about Cathode Ray Tubes at first. Had to search both initialisms to figure out what the post is about.
Oh wow. THANK YOU for knowing the difference between an acronym and an an initialism. You've genuinely made my day.
I learned it somewhere on Lemmy a few weeks ago :D
What did your search turn up about DEI?
Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Is it not correct?
It is correct, but Drug Enforcement Igency sounds cooler 😁
And thanks.
Lol
Equity
"hey can I get some more home equity? the gays say I should have more" lol
Drug Enforcement Igency
It's been coupled together from the start, but I have been seeing it more often recently, in particular with the whole Boeing fiasco, multiple outlets blaming DEI. Wouldn't be surprised if Boeing was behind the propaganda efforts to help deflect responsibility.
It’s also being used in the Baltimore bridge collapse. Lots of “the boat wouldn’t have hit it if they had more white people on the crew. This was caused by DEI hiring inept crews” and “it’s cuz of all the lazy black people getting hired to work on the bridge. It wouldn’t have collapsed if white people were maintaining it” rhetoric.
Both of those felt gross to even type out, but I have 100% seen both of them being parroted in response to the collapse.
Not only is it gross and racist as you've laid out, I think the other purpose the "woke, esg, dei, crt" conspiracy stuff serves is as a thought ender. If a poorly maintained ship loses power and hits a bridge, you might start to think about why the economic incentives and laws are set up in such a way that would allow that to happen. But if someone blames it on dei, well, deep down there's no way you're really going to believe that. But it gives you a pressure release for the cognitive dissonance that otherwise might cause you to have to examine your own beliefs. The angrier you get about it, the less reflection you have to do. Especially as we are wired to be tribal, so blaming the screwup on the woke libs feels a lot better than listening and thinking through things.
It's fucking insane
I can see it now " Google how many women and colors were working on Boeing. They didn't used to be that way"
oof madone