Today I come to praise DEI, not to bury it. Or, more to the point, the idea of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion rather than the current iteration of DEI, which is quickly becoming a widely-acknowledged failure.
DEI isn’t a failure because it’s a bad idea—it’s because it’s an early version, 1.0 of a social justice project, implemented by the wrong damn team which lacked the proper education for the job and didn’t source enough outside knowledge to correct all its mistakes. It never even acknowledged their project had more bugs than a Brooklyn housing project.
DEI needs a reboot—a 2.0. The reboot won’t be perfect either, but it’ll be less imperfect than 1.0.
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