Comments by "Me andmi" (@629Justme) on "Charlamagne and Dr. Phil \"Call Out\" DEI Policies as Marxism and Racist." video.

  1. DEI, in and of itself does not lower standards. DEI is based on the historical issue of African Americans having a tougher time acquiring esteemed positions because white business owners wouldn't hire them based on skin color. Yes. Because most African Americans have in their family tree individuals raised on a slavery plantation and one of the tenents of that was to keep the slaves uneducated so they wouldn't be able to do anything else, generations later they are perfectly capable individuals that can perform at the necessary capacity. Sometimes it's the employer isn't looking for most capable, they are looking for their underrated expectation of what's out there True story: recently a black woman was fired because she was overeducated (smarter) than expected. Look it up. In general, DEI isn't supposed to drive down the standards, it's just supposed to make it less likely that African Americans will go on strike because some corporation won't hire blacks. A historical blemish on America's truth.
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  2. Logically, how does a new proposition lower anything. It's only a way to get employers to understand that historically blacks and POC's didn't get the exact same opportunities as the white population majority for other reasons than ability. DEI is supposed to open doors that were closed during the 400 years or so that getting a job actually meant below your actual merit. A policy is just that. A way to affect change it doesn't make lower standards.
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  3. It's a popular bigoted reaction. DEI, doesn't open doors to the unqualified. It open doors to the qualified. Historically totally qualified blacks have been overlooked or excluded from positions with the highest earning potential because of bigoted stereotyping that made erroneous understanding think that skin color correlated with intelligence. An unfortunate consequence derived from when blacks only worked on farms (understand the reference). Pre Jim Crowe years of under education meant that much in society felt that it was endemic to the people. It's not and as soon as education was more open could compete as well as other classes of folk. Some of that stereotyping is around today. DEI, doesn't lower standards, it's a fallacy supported by bigotry.
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  4. You sound like you didn't research why it was introduced in the first place. Imagine congress placing a country wide policy without reason. Before you say, well I can, DEI was introduced for cause. Cause was to stop all of the picketing and protests by folks wanting good jobs but couldn't get hired because of bigotry=racist reasons. This is fact. It's not insulting to know that the country you live in has done things to stop bigotry and racist actions. These measures didn't happen in a vacuum. Happened to solve a problem that others didn't have.
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