“DEI – Diversity Equity Inclusion”

No more DEI or ESG: alphabet soup is off the menu in Trump’s USA

The president-elect has prompted a backlash against boardroom virtue signalling and diversity phrases

Asked to describe the vibe shift on Wall Street since Donald Trump’s re-election last November, a senior hedge fund manager replies simply with a link to Landman, a new drama series on the Paramount+ streaming service.

Starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm, and released just under a fortnight after Trump’s resounding victory, it follows the boom-time skirmishing of wildcat oil explorers in West Texas — think Mad Men for fossil fuels.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

So called “Indigenous Business” sold city of Hamilton made-in-China Tiny Homes for $35K each

As tiny homes arrive in Hamilton, councillors ask why city bought made-in-China units for $35K each

When City of Hamilton staff agreed to buy 40 tiny homes from a Brantford, Ont., company for a new outdoor shelter site last fall, they thought they were supporting a local, Indigenous-owned business that was one of the few capable of delivering on a short timeline.

What they didn’t know was MicroShelters was a new corporation that would go through an American company to order the tiny homes from China, staff said at a general issues committee meeting Wednesday.

“It was a very quick turnaround” to meet deadlines on the project, said Danielle Blake, the city’s manager of housing-focused street outreach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Diversity", "Identity Politics", Canada, WTF?

You know who will cheer the death of DEI? The working class

The boss class’s diversity initiatives were a knife in the heart of workplace solidarity.

So, is it RIP DEI? The boss class’s favourite ideology certainly seems to be in trouble. Big business everywhere is rethinking its devotion to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’. As part of his coming out as a pretty standard tech bro who bristles at woke and loves Joe Rogan, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said DEI might be for the chopping block. He even instructed his minions to take the tampons out of the men’s bathrooms at Meta HQ. Expecting people who menstruate to use the ladies’ loo? Guys, this is big.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Ottawa-funded social justice research isn’t science

For the past decade, Ottawa politicized research funding: Liberal ministers pledged to embed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into research practices while bringing diversity targets to the sector; they even said outright that federal funds would be used to tinker with the demographics within the research ecosystem.

And now, in 2024, the House of Commons is finally hearing about it. In October, the science committee kicked off a study on the impact of government funding requirements on Canadian research, and, for once, invited a slate of witnesses who don’t bow to DEI dogma.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Peak Woke", "Science", "Social Justice"

Biden Picked His Cabinet Based on DEI. How Did That Work Out for Him? Not well.

Four years ago, when then–President-elect Joe Biden was selecting members of his Cabinet, one concern dominated: diversity.

The pressure to choose candidates for top offices who were either women or from minority races was immense. Politico reported in November 2020 that Democrats “expect[ed] him to nominate the most diverse Cabinet in history.” Luckily for DEI-obsessed Democrats, Biden was happy to comply. After all, the president had promised to create a government that “looks like America.” In the end, the president’s administration was judged by numerous media outlets to be “the most diverse ever.” CNN totaled in January 2021 that 50 percent of Biden’s nominees for Cabinet positions and Cabinet-level positions were “people of color.” Biden had also named the most-ever women as Cabinet secretaries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

The Coming Fight to Abolish DEI

There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Political operatives, policy wonks, and opposition figures are all planning for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration.

I’ve spoken with many of the people in the president-elect’s orbit who are planning how to staff Cabinet departments and set a new tone on the administration’s first day. Much of our discussion has focused on the approach to DEI, or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", President Trump

THOMAS: Where you live in Calgary determines how much of a racist you are says, new DEI-drenched city plan

If you’ve lived in Calgary for a number of years (and especially if you were born in Calgary) you might be a racist.

If you own a home in Calgary, you might be a racist.

If you operate a business or provide services in Calgary, you might be a racist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", WTF?

Move over schools, DEI is taking over the world of video games

Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle as many DEI programs as possible when he returns to the White House. Yet, there’s one domain where diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just surviving—they’re thriving. The world of video games.

“Call of Duty,” one of the most iconic gaming franchises in history, recently introduced Rossi, its first nonbinary character with they/them pronouns. Some might dismiss this as mere virtue signaling, but it’s part of a far larger agenda.

As mainstream media declines, gaming — a market of 212 million US players —has become the perfect platform for DEI tenets to flourish.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Majority of Canadians oppose racist equity hiring practices

Majority of Canadians oppose equity hiring — more than in the U.S., new poll finds

A majority of Canadians say that employers should not take cultural or ethnic backgrounds into consideration when hiring, according to new polling.

Fifty-seven per cent of Canadians disagree with the notion that equity should be a part of hiring, according to the poll done by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.

“The survey results point to some pushback on the issue of minority hiring in Canada and the United States,” said Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, in an email.

Still haven’t heard anything from Poilievre on whether he will repeal Canada’s current anti-White hiring legislation.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Jamie Sarkonak: Walmart’s DEI retreat a major win for the common sense crowd

Now that the largest employer in the United States — Walmart has 2.1 million employees, with 1.6 million of those in the U.S. — is retreating from many of the progressive political commitments it made circa 2020, it just became a heck of a lot easier for smaller fish to follow suit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the DEIty

Ten years in an America enslaved to race recrimination

Adecade ago, in June 2014, the Atlantic published a cover story with a simple declarative title: “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The piece had taken him two years to write, and the work paid off — with praise sweeping through the ranks of media, prizes from the most prominent elite institutions. The piece was named the “Top Work of Journalism of the Decade” by New York University’s journalism institute. It was hailed as a rare piece of writing which pushed open a cultural dialogue about a controversial subject.

This conversation had been taking place among liberal elites and in all the high places they command — at the Kennedy School and in the New Yorker and National Public Radio — but in August that year it exploded into something more when the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri became a flashpoint in America’s racial reckoning. Coates’s examination of America’s incapacity to truly deal with its history of sin, slavery and persecution went from being the stuff of ethical and intellectual debate to creating the basis for an entire movement — bridging the gap between the high and the low.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Walmart is the largest retailer to roll back diversity policies. What might it mean for Canadian employees?

Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining a growing list of major corporations that have done the same after coming under attack by conservative activists.

The changes, confirmed by Walmart on Monday, are sweeping and include not renewing a five-year commitment for a racial equity centre set up in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd — nor will the company continue to use race and gender as a litmus test to improve diversity when it offers supplier contracts. Walmart said it didn’t have quotas and will not do so going forward.

CBC – your network of choice for race grifting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Walmart dumps ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ in woke crackdown

The world’s biggest retailer will no longer sell chest binders and books about transgenderism that are marketed towards children

Walmart has announced it will no longer sell chest binders and books about transgenderism that are marketed towards children in a major overhaul of its diversity policies.

Walmart, which is valued at $665 billion, said in a statement it would phase out terms such as “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) in company materials.

The world’s biggest retailer went on to announce it will prohibit third-party sellers from offering LGBTQ-themed items on its website that were being marketed to transgender children, such as chest binders and a number of books.

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