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Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings (www.theregister.com)
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Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have it backwards. DEI ensures it's not just the same good ol boy hired as usual (which is what the current good ol boy employer wants)

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is where everyone here is being disingenuous, or are just completely ignoring opponents of DEI. When have opponents of DEI called for overlooking meritorious minorities? When have they called for discrimination? Because they must have explicitly done so if DEI combats this.

    I know what the stated goals of DEI are, and it sounds good, but I also know how it's often implemented: quantitative goals and affirmative action. These are discriminatory practices.

    People routinely admit that white women are the biggest beneficiaries of DEI, calculated from things such as their access to STEM jobs (eg. IBM setting a goal of 50% female engineers), then they go right back to saying that hiring based on gender is actually not DEI. Pure gaslighting.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    All true. The problem is, remove DEI and you hand the reigns directly to the baked-in systemic advantage of white men(tall, attractive with hair specifically). It's like the ocean. DEI is a small seawall trying to make the slightest difference. It's not perfect and takes work but the alternative is a flood of self-affirming bias where you end up with products and services created by them but supposedly for everyone.

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