The backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign.
It would be nice if at least once a page someone fucking explains an acronym. It’s a little more understandable when you can infer a meaning through context, but when the context is that people are using it as the new woke bogeyman it gives zero clue as to what it even is.
You aren’t wrong with your criticism in general (from a purely journalistic pov). But actually typing DEI into Google and clicking the first hit, would be more constructive than ranting.
If my only point was to learn what DEI was, sure. But that doesn’t help with the next acronym. Or the next one. Or the next one. Ad nauseum.
My problem is with the trend of people just using an acronym with no definition, it means you are not making a coherent argument that can be understood by people not already invested in it. It, in and of itself, is little better than a rant to an audience that’s already made up its mind.
It means trying to diversity your workforce instead of just loading the places up with white people.
Opponents have lots of idiotic tropes about how hiring minorities makes white people less safe and how it takes good jobs away from more qualified applicants.
To many whites, equality feels like oppression, I guess, and they would rather feel superior than be equal.
I don’t even know what DEI is.
It would be nice if at least once a page someone fucking explains an acronym. It’s a little more understandable when you can infer a meaning through context, but when the context is that people are using it as the new woke bogeyman it gives zero clue as to what it even is.
Many of those adamant against the spooky woke bogeyman don’t know what the words mean either!
You aren’t wrong with your criticism in general (from a purely journalistic pov). But actually typing DEI into Google and clicking the first hit, would be more constructive than ranting.
If my only point was to learn what DEI was, sure. But that doesn’t help with the next acronym. Or the next one. Or the next one. Ad nauseum.
My problem is with the trend of people just using an acronym with no definition, it means you are not making a coherent argument that can be understood by people not already invested in it. It, in and of itself, is little better than a rant to an audience that’s already made up its mind.
Abysmal practice if an acronym isn’t explained. That’s basic writing skills, never mind professional journalism.
Instead of writing this, simply answering it with “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” would’ve been equally more constructive 😁
It means trying to diversity your workforce instead of just loading the places up with white people.
Opponents have lots of idiotic tropes about how hiring minorities makes white people less safe and how it takes good jobs away from more qualified applicants.
To many whites, equality feels like oppression, I guess, and they would rather feel superior than be equal.