It’s literally just Prosperity Gospel. They believe we already live in a meritocracy, therefore the white people that were getting the jobs were the most qualified. They’re there because they’re the best, and they’re the best because they’re there. Therefore any efforts to give a chance to people who didn’t have those same opportunities through DEI programs necessarily requires that those people are not as good of candidates.
It is literally impossible for these people to understand that they aren’t changing the requirements at all in almost any case. That all that’s happening in most any case of a DEI program is that they’re giving the same consideration to a black or brown person that didn’t have the same networking connections as the legacy white guy whose Dad goes to the same country club as the hiring manager or whatever.
Which is absolutely hilarious when you think about it. Because if our system was annually based on merit half of these people crying about “DEI Hires” would never actually have gotten hired themselves for their own positions. Most of these people are where they are because of who their parents were and who they knew. If you peeled that away and evaluated them anonymously against a comparable “DEI Hire” they’d get BTFO pretty much every time.
It’s literally just Prosperity Gospel. They believe we already live in a meritocracy, therefore the white people that were getting the jobs were the most qualified. They’re there because they’re the best, and they’re the best because they’re there. Therefore any efforts to give a chance to people who didn’t have those same opportunities through DEI programs necessarily requires that those people are not as good of candidates.
It is literally impossible for these people to understand that they aren’t changing the requirements at all in almost any case. That all that’s happening in most any case of a DEI program is that they’re giving the same consideration to a black or brown person that didn’t have the same networking connections as the legacy white guy whose Dad goes to the same country club as the hiring manager or whatever.
Which is absolutely hilarious when you think about it. Because if our system was annually based on merit half of these people crying about “DEI Hires” would never actually have gotten hired themselves for their own positions. Most of these people are where they are because of who their parents were and who they knew. If you peeled that away and evaluated them anonymously against a comparable “DEI Hire” they’d get BTFO pretty much every time.