Wall Street Journal- The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
Companies including Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives will be leaving their jobs. Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments.
Not at all surprising as these people do not add any value to a company and only sow discord.
All DIE does is deliver nutshots to the bottom line, the most important line in business.
DEI seems like a good idea until you introduce it into your company and see that it increases — no diminishes — racial hostility, and that it applies constant pressure not to hire, promote, and reward the best people.
Then when you have a rough couple of quarters and are looking to shed dead weight, you find you can kill two birds with one stone.
surprised that no one has figured this out yet, DEI will now be underground so as to avoid lawsuits
Don’t buy it. It’s not true. They will still be there, but purposefully less visible. The position names will be changed (have been changed) so that their presence is not as obvious. Corporations have realized that by labeling as a “Diversity” specialist, they were providing a target both specifically and in general to the company overall. The new corporate strategy is to keep it quiet.
All you need to know is that the various diversity rating indexes are still very operational (such as NDC).
HR departments have been doing this for decades. Eliminating a couple of exec positions isn’t going to change anything until HR departments are eliminated wholesale.
Hello? Anybody home?.. Because a diversity officer is a COMMISSAR.. A dickhead with a clipboard and a chip on her shoulder.. I assume they are 90% ladies.. Makes them even more bullet proof.. Makes the BS falling out of their mouths even more believable?..
Oh yes, we are nowhere near equal on the BS front.. If its awful put a lady in charge of it.. I hear they make great prison camp guards?..
But most of all the COMMISSAR has nothing to do with anything of VALUE, only discord.. With the worst part being.. When things go wrong in your business the diversity elephant in the room gets in the way of identifying the problem.. Creating solutions..
Race based low hanging fruit that you can snack on in the unemployment line.. Its dumbest thing ever..
When one thinks of ‘Diversity’ bureaucrats and officers, one thinks of the toilet attendants in European toilets that give out toilet paper for some cash.
Tick: old Abenaki word meaning Chief Diversity Officer.
The fed cdn gov’t was one of the first to jump on this DEI bandwagon in 1993, and, before 2002, using over paid American consultants to mandatorily train us in CRT. I was aghast and angry.
A theory is still a theory, and this a very bad one. Having lived abroad, it is false. No one cares about race, only competence, even 4 year olds.
I wanted to walk out in disgust, but was too Canadian chickeny to do it.
Ironically, the last time the acronym CDO was in the news it referred to Collateralized Debt Obligation and led to the Great Financial Crisis.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings….Kipling.
Written long ago. More than relevant today.
Read it and weep.
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
Buddy Brown..”Tell HR to shove it,I ain’t working here no more”.