The blatant racism around DEI fearmongering is really something terrible to behold. Funnily enough, the argument seems to be "racism/sexism isn't a thing anymore so clearly these are just less competent people getting jobs cause woke."

The Francis Scott Key bridge was blamed on DEI. Even though the ship wasn't even owned or crewed by Americans.

What's wrong with cathode ray tubes?

Its so surreal seeing like DEI being blamed for company failures. I've been to DEI trainings. It's like 3 or 4 meetings in an entire year lmao. Many people have like 6 meetings in a day. It didn't make upper management stop being assholes either. Like how big of a baby do you have to be to think that the DEI trainings made a difference, let alone actually affect company operations?

What does dei mean?

I don't know why, but this post has been like a mind virus to me, trying to intuit out the first ones using context clues. For those who don’t want to zoom in on pixels or google extensively, here:

What do the first four on the left say?

edit i don’t think it’s even close to any of these, see this comment for my closer guesses: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/6369471

i can’t find the original with my reverse image search abilities but i asked chatgpt to produce similar terms to sate those with morbid curiosity:

These terms have been used or co-opted in racially or politically charged contexts. Here are some additional examples:

1. Affirmative Action
2. Inner City
3. Illegal Alien
4. Thug
5. Anchor Baby
6. Diversity Hire
7. Model Minority
8. Low-Information Voters
9. Globalist
10. Ghetto
11. Illegal Immigrant
12. Third World
13. Radical
14. Cultural Marxism

These terms can be problematic when used to stereotype or marginalize certain groups based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.