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DEI need to DIE. It is a divisive, destructive and illiberal construct backing a power grab by collectivist radicals who also desire to profit from it within the hive of their useless consulting practices and NGOs. It not only does not solve any of the problems it professes to target, it creates a much bigger mess of resulting from the erasing of merit as the primary hiring, promotion and reward factor.

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DEI is the Shirky Principle on steroids.

Here is were we should be at this point in our fantastic social justice and civil right progress... everything should have shifted from race and other victim group identity advocacy to 100% other-group-blind economic class advocacy.

Today there is no material Institutional racism nor gender bias. Females in fact dominate much of the economy today. However, outcomes for certain races, for example blacks, remain problematic. Forcing society to give preference based on race has three key problems while failing to actually solve the problem of improved group outcomes.

1. It is racist itself, immoral, illiberal and likely unconstitutional.

2. It reduces organizational performance as criteria other than demonstrated performance merit are used to select and promote people within a role.

3. It negatively impacts those given preference as bypassing the development learning process they need to be successful long-term.

The focus instead should be to completely reform the public education system to focus on preparing each and every student for his next step toward the goal of an economically self-sufficient life, while also implementing robust incentives to bring in more good paying manufacturing, industrial, trade and service jobs into labor surplus areas.

The problem is that the type of people attempting to benefit from victim advocacy don't support these things. They don't support the school reform need because the public education system is a unionized public adult jobs program and the unions donate money and personnel time almost exclusively to the same Democrat party that pushes DEI... the unions don't support the type of changes required and the Democrats benefit from the control of the education system that plants ideological ideas of government dependency into the heads of young voters instead of teaching them self-sufficiency. On the business side, these advocates don't play in the sandbox and cannot make enough power and money from it.

So these same advocates for blacks are the biggest roadblock for fixing the problems in the black community. DEI, as well as reparations, is their desperate deflection from this truth because as the black community figures it out... their race-baiting power and money making industry is done.

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