DEI is dead! Let's celebrate the demise of that woke nonsense

[Red Phoenix]

“RIP DEI. This is what comes next.” In the wake of Trump’s election, the president of a DEI consulting firm said she’s decided to pull the plug, close up shop, shut it down.

Source: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/rising-stars-wednesday-november-13

The CEO, Amber Cabral, began like this: “It may seem extreme to decide to close my company mere hours after an election result, but let me paint the picture for you.” The colors red and orange featured prominently in Amber’s verbal portrait.

“Since late Fall of 2022,” Amber explained, “my industry has been in a major decline.” In other words, things were already headed downhill even before Trump was re-elected. Corporate America was already shifting away from DEI, cutting teams, budgets, and most importantly, outside consultants. The optics were getting really bad. Amber noted that, “a lot of DEI practitioners either didn’t have support or flat-out did not know what they were doing.” (Thank you, Matt Walsh.)

Then a couple months ago, Amber’s corporate clients put all pending DEI training sessions on hold. When she asked them why, she got two answers. First, they wanted to wait till “after the election.” Second, they worried that conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck start tweeting about their DEI activities.

And now that Trump is President, Amber expects those clients to “soon shift from postponed to canceled.”

She isn’t waiting for the body-positive lady to sing. Amber blames Americans who voted for Trump, who “don’t want to listen or be accountable or move through disconnection,” whatever that means. But she admitted that the DEI approach already wasn’t working. “The ‘let me drown you in the data so you feel guilty enough to change’ approach has been failing.”

Her sad conclusion: “It’s beyond time to put the current model to rest and with it, the clinical definitions, and the constant desire to describe and explain what our preferred diversity, equity, and inclusion acronym means and why it’s the right one. None of this is working.”

“I’m okay,” Amber rhetorically sobbed, grappling with her strong emotions, “with letting DEI rest in peace.”

RIP, DEI.

To be clear, the failure of Amber’s DEI-training business was not the good news. As a fellow entrepreneur, I sympathize with Amber, and would encourage her to move on to her next venture quickly. It will be even more successful, and probably a lot more productive, than the last one.

But if DEI consultancies are starting to close, if cowardly corporations are finally jettisoning the profoundly racist and counterproductive ideology in favor of getting back to basics, then we are even closer to winning than we thought.

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[pattayasan]

3 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

“RIP DEI. This is what comes next.” In the wake of Trump’s election, the president of a DEI consulting firm said she’s decided to pull the plug, close up shop, shut it down.

Source: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/rising-stars-wednesday-november-13

The CEO, Amber Cabral, began like this: “It may seem extreme to decide to close my company mere hours after an election result, but let me paint the picture for you.” The colors red and orange featured prominently in Amber’s verbal portrait.

“Since late Fall of 2022,” Amber explained, “my industry has been in a major decline.” In other words, things were already headed downhill even before Trump was re-elected. Corporate America was already shifting away from DEI, cutting teams, budgets, and most importantly, outside consultants. The optics were getting really bad. Amber noted that, “a lot of DEI practitioners either didn’t have support or flat-out did not know what they were doing.” (Thank you, Matt Walsh.)

Then a couple months ago, Amber’s corporate clients put all pending DEI training sessions on hold. When she asked them why, she got two answers. First, they wanted to wait till “after the election.” Second, they worried that conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck start tweeting about their DEI activities.

And now that Trump is President, Amber expects those clients to “soon shift from postponed to canceled.”

She isn’t waiting for the body-positive lady to sing. Amber blames Americans who voted for Trump, who “don’t want to listen or be accountable or move through disconnection,” whatever that means. But she admitted that the DEI approach already wasn’t working. “The ‘let me drown you in the data so you feel guilty enough to change’ approach has been failing.”

Her sad conclusion: “It’s beyond time to put the current model to rest and with it, the clinical definitions, and the constant desire to describe and explain what our preferred diversity, equity, and inclusion acronym means and why it’s the right one. None of this is working.”

“I’m okay,” Amber rhetorically sobbed, grappling with her strong emotions, “with letting DEI rest in peace.”

RIP, DEI.

To be clear, the failure of Amber’s DEI-training business was not the good news. As a fellow entrepreneur, I sympathize with Amber, and would encourage her to move on to her next venture quickly. It will be even more successful, and probably a lot more productive, than the last one.

But if DEI consultancies are starting to close, if cowardly corporations are finally jettisoning the profoundly racist and counterproductive ideology in favor of getting back to basics, then we are even closer to winning than we thought.

= = =

 

Hit piece from garbage source.

[Red Phoenix]

13 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

Hit piece from garbage source.

Even from before the 2024 election, DEI was not 'popular' anymore in many corporations that experienced the downside of preferring candidates that ticked the right woke boxes over competent and qualified ones.  And common sense management that values performance over faux political correctness, has been slashing DEI departments and scrapping their woke policies, as the demoralization effect of the DEI stupidity chased real talent out of the company.  

The writing is on the wall > DEI is dying, and those companies that still endorse it will go down with it.

[pattayasan]

1 minute ago, Red Phoenix said:

Even from before the 2024 election, DEI was not 'popular' anymore in many corporations that experienced the downside of preferring candidates that ticked the right woke boxes over a competent and qualified ones.  And common sense management that values performance over faux political correctness, has been slashing DEI departments and scrapping their woke policies, as the demoralization effect of the DEI stupidity chased real talent out of the company.  

The writing is on the wall > DEI is dying, and those companies that still endorse it will go down with it.

 

Complete rubbish. DEI is found in all western nations.

[owl sees all]

I had to look up DEI to understand it all.

 

Good bye. The end of an era; hopefully.

[EVENKEEL]

2 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

Complete rubbish. DEI is found in all western nations.

Do you find it lonely at the bottom of the rung?

[Red Phoenix]

Just now, pattayasan said:

Complete rubbish. DEI is found in all western nations.

Bud Light can also still be found, but the head of the DEI department at Budweiser is not to be found there anymore...

[bangadang]

Dead End Intellects

[thaibeachlovers]

28 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

“RIP DEI. This is what comes next.” In the wake of Trump’s election, the president of a DEI consulting firm said she’s decided to pull the plug, close up shop, shut it down.

Source: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/rising-stars-wednesday-november-13

The CEO, Amber Cabral, began like this: “It may seem extreme to decide to close my company mere hours after an election result, but let me paint the picture for you.” The colors red and orange featured prominently in Amber’s verbal portrait.

“Since late Fall of 2022,” Amber explained, “my industry has been in a major decline.” In other words, things were already headed downhill even before Trump was re-elected. Corporate America was already shifting away from DEI, cutting teams, budgets, and most importantly, outside consultants. The optics were getting really bad. Amber noted that, “a lot of DEI practitioners either didn’t have support or flat-out did not know what they were doing.” (Thank you, Matt Walsh.)

Then a couple months ago, Amber’s corporate clients put all pending DEI training sessions on hold. When she asked them why, she got two answers. First, they wanted to wait till “after the election.” Second, they worried that conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck start tweeting about their DEI activities.

And now that Trump is President, Amber expects those clients to “soon shift from postponed to canceled.”

She isn’t waiting for the body-positive lady to sing. Amber blames Americans who voted for Trump, who “don’t want to listen or be accountable or move through disconnection,” whatever that means. But she admitted that the DEI approach already wasn’t working. “The ‘let me drown you in the data so you feel guilty enough to change’ approach has been failing.”

Her sad conclusion: “It’s beyond time to put the current model to rest and with it, the clinical definitions, and the constant desire to describe and explain what our preferred diversity, equity, and inclusion acronym means and why it’s the right one. None of this is working.”

“I’m okay,” Amber rhetorically sobbed, grappling with her strong emotions, “with letting DEI rest in peace.”

RIP, DEI.

To be clear, the failure of Amber’s DEI-training business was not the good news. As a fellow entrepreneur, I sympathize with Amber, and would encourage her to move on to her next venture quickly. It will be even more successful, and probably a lot more productive, than the last one.

But if DEI consultancies are starting to close, if cowardly corporations are finally jettisoning the profoundly racist and counterproductive ideology in favor of getting back to basics, then we are even closer to winning than we thought.

= = =

In a related subject, I was recently listening to and half watching a program on Al Jazeera about the rise of an anti progressive woman movement in ( I think ) Nigeria or maybe Kenya where popular talk show and podcast hosts ( male of course ) encouraged men to reject women that think they are special.  The program featured women moaning about it ( Al Jazeera is actually quite woke and has loads of programs about how great women are ). Not being eager to listen to women complaining about men, I didn't pay much attention, but seems the fight back has begun. From acorns great trees grow.

[thaibeachlovers]

21 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

Complete rubbish. DEI is found in all western nations.

Sadly I agree with that, but it's probably a significant reason why western civilization is doomed. It's already dying, so the only question is if it can be saved or if the rot is in too deep to remove without killing the beast.

[Ben Zioner]

Seems that there are many [retired] members here, who believe that one should not recruit the best candidate if she is a women or she/he belongs to a minority.

[Yagoda]

2 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

Seems that there are many [retired] members here, who believe that one should not recruit the best candidate if she is a women or she/he belongs to a minority.

Seems that there are many members here who are racists. Thats the Left.

[tai4de2]

2 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Seems that there are many [retired] members here, who believe that one should not recruit the best candidate if she is a women or she/he belongs to a minority.

 

Really? Quote someone saying that so I can condemn that person loudly. (In case it wasn't clear, I think no one here is actually saying that, and you are making it up.)

 

For the record: one *should* recruit the best candidate, including women and minorities.

[mdr224]

DEI is basically an acronym for racism against whites

[madone]

4 hours ago, pattayasan said:

 

Complete rubbish. DEI is found in all western nations.

point well missed

 

17 minutes ago, mdr224 said:

DEI is basically an acronym for racism against whites

 

straight whites. 

[jas007]

DEI is silly.  What's wrong with meritocracy?  If you're the most qualified candidate, then so be it, whatever the race or sexual orientation. Otherwise, nope. 

 

If you take a long flight and you have a choice of two planes, which plane would you fly on? One assembled and worked on by DEI mechanics who are possibly incapable of doing the job they were hired to do, flown by DEI pilots and crew members?  Or would you opt for travel on a plane that was assembled, maintained, and flown by pilots and staff that have demonstrated the ability to do the job they were hired for? 

[Ben Zioner]

1 hour ago, tai4de2 said:

 

Really? Quote someone saying that so I can condemn that person loudly. (In case it wasn't clear, I think no one here is actually saying that, and you are making it up.)

 

For the record: one *should* recruit the best candidate, including women and minorities.

That's what the all say, why should on believe you.

[soalbundy]

5 hours ago, pattayasan said:

 

Complete rubbish. DEI is found in all western nations.

Black trans 'women' with mental health issues and a physical deformity may no longer apply for the 'Dairy queen of the month'.

[wwest5829]

We don’t need no stinkin “diversity, equity, and inclusion”. Merit only … everyone knows that in the USA all, from those growing up in poverty to those growing up in wealth, are absolutely equal in having the same opportunities to improve their lives. Entirely up to them …

[Snackbar]

Dummy Democrats given sensible Nazis a platform. Good to be a racist, sexist winner 

[soalbundy]

39 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

We don’t need no stinkin “diversity, equity, and inclusion”. Merit only … everyone knows that in the USA all, from those growing up in poverty to those growing up in wealth, are absolutely equal in having the same opportunities to improve their lives. Entirely up to them …

True, look at Trump, obviously anybody can become president

[soalbundy]

1 hour ago, jas007 said:

DEI is silly.  What's wrong with meritocracy?  If you're the most qualified candidate, then so be it, whatever the race or sexual orientation. Otherwise, nope. 

 

If you take a long flight and you have a choice of two planes, which plane would you fly on? One assembled and worked on by DEI mechanics who are possibly incapable of doing the job they were hired to do, flown by DEI pilots and crew members?  Or would you opt for travel on a plane that was assembled, maintained, and flown by pilots and staff that have demonstrated the ability to do the job they were hired for? 

Not if they are from Boeing.

[OneMoreFarang]

DEI isn't dead. And it won't be dead anytime soon.

I hope the situation will get better. But there are just too many people who live from being part of DEI that it will be difficult to get rid of them all. American top universities are a good example how bad it is and how difficult it is to reset the situation.

Some people say the DEI infested universities can't be saved anymore. It's bad.

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

then we are even closer to winning than we thought.

Glory to white national supremacists!

According to Trump, immigrants in the U.S. illegally are "destroying the blood of our country, they're destroying the fabric of our country."

[OneMoreFarang]

5 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Seems that there are many [retired] members here, who believe that one should not recruit the best candidate if she is a women or she/he belongs to a minority.

Personally, I have no problem with smart women, and I don't care about their skin color.

But when a job description is that the job is only available for women of color, then that rules out more than 90% or the people who might be more qualified.

[mogandave]

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

DEI isn't dead. And it won't be dead anytime soon.

I hope the situation will get better. But there are just too many people who live from being part of DEI that it will be difficult to get rid of them all. American top universities are a good example how bad it is and how difficult it is to reset the situation.

Some people say the DEI infested universities can't be saved anymore. It's bad.

It’s terrible, and you are right, it’s far from dead. 

 

But, the people are clearly against it now, and they don’t believe people on TV telling them how great it is. 

 

That someone has a PhD in nonsense from Harvard does not impress anyone but other hard leftists with PhDs in nonsense. 

 

Everyone else knows they are full of cr*p

[mogandave]

4 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Glory to white national supremacists!

According to Trump, immigrants in the U.S. illegally are "destroying the blood of our country, they're destroying the fabric of our country."

You are lying 

[John Drake]

A big chunk of DEI funding and infrastructure will disappear if Trump indeed does start taxing universities' endowments. 

[renaissanc]

Politicians (and DEI consultants) don't study history. Only the timeless values that are the bedrock of each mainstream religion survive. These timeless values are the same in every religion going back millennia. Organisations not based on them are doomed to fail at some point. DEI could never survive for long because of this.

[JonnyF]

DEI is racist.

 

1. It prevents white people, male people, straight people getting certain jobs/university places etc. because of their skin colour.

2. It assumes that non white, non male, non straight people need special rules to enable them to get certain jobs/university places etc. because they are inferior. 

 

It manages to discriminate and condescend at the same time. 

 

I don't want someone leading my country, flying a plane I'm on, teaching my children etc. because of their immutable characteristics. I want them to do it because they are the best available person irrespective of colour, sex, sexual orientation etc. 

 

Trump will kill it off in the US and other countries will follow. Good riddance to leftie Woke nonsense and the race baiters/grifters who support it. .