Your feelings about this answer to why DEI doesn't work

@JonLosAngeles66 "A diverse investment profile brings steady returns". No wonder big "corporations" are pro DEI.

@Therealsteve lol. I've found that doing the right thing is usually good for business!

@JonLosAngeles66 Exactly, same. It's what I find crazy about leftists. They say they want people to come together and create things for everyone - which is actually what businesses in a free population do. I see x people needing help in x way, I devote some of the assets of my business to help x in exactly the way I think they should be helped, and in a way directly proportionate to my ability. Thankfully in a free economy I can do that. And a... corporation (shock) is a collaboration that has successfully produced value to so many people so many times that it's expanded to a size that it can make transactions that impact entire countries. And I'm glad those making that impact are entities with a track record of enough positive transactions to get to that size and not some state enforced mess.

Incentivize building yourself up as an individual and using that strength to serve others in a way meaningful to each individual. Don't demonize individual success and don't have the state penalize their produce and constrain their path to being productive.

By the way, OP was quoting me, I have a management and teaching degree, I've ran schools across the world.

@JimboSaturn I have a different take on the definition of unconscious bias. Not because of the root of the phrase but how it's extrapolated out to imply negative behavior. Which is why it's used.

@Ynotisay Well yes. I believe bias implies a negative behaviour, hence the need to counteract. I see recognizing uncoucious bias is not guilt or microaggressions but just understanding. I try to be aware of my own unconsious biases.

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@JimboSaturn Exactly, lol. Total pseudo-intellectual

@Therealsteve Again deleted by its author doesn't mean I did it. Deleted was your own message. If I deleted it, it would say "deleted by the author of this post" I think.

@JimboSaturn Just to help out: I have found if someone has blocked me I will find their comments get "This message was deleted"

@FreddieUK Right yes! So it was someone who blocked steve. Ya I LOATHE when people delete comments, I would never do that.

@ostfuidctyvm I agree 100%. The idea that people are hired only because of a protected characteristic is in itself and unciousious bias.

@FreddieUK Also the preceding premises in the original post about the exclusivity of finding correct solutions, also added to my general confusion about the last paragraph.

@FreddieUK 1. "Executive functioning" is not a complex term.

" it's very hard work for someone not used to it - like me these days.". He took that message out of context from a long thread in which he was attempting to denigrate my intelligence, whilst he was pretty dim himself. He was constantly pretending I didn't answer his question whenever I gave a response, then told me to stop avoiding his question that he would slightly reword and demand I answer again.

And so I felt, with being called stupid, of ill intent, claims that he couldn't understand - over and over - I'd make it as technical in language as possible, so that there could be no room for denial. :)

@FreddieUK "Trying to get through to the meaning of this for someone outside the academic discipline is a real challenge."

It's also harder when this Jimbo also:

1. Doesn't want to try to understand a different view
2. Wants to portray himself as being smarter and therefore above the need to 'know'
3. Ascribes ill intent to me rather than addressing what I said
4. Ignores what I said
5. Slightly changes the goalposts every time he asks a question (plus 4.)
6. Derails it into a contest about whose smarter as he doesn't have an argument
7. Pretends to have certain qualifications and experience whilst not understanding the most basic concepts of the discipline.
8. Claims superior mastery over English whilst making major blunders and then backtracks saying mastery of language actually requires using "simple" words.
9. Claims that suddenly I'm making an "argument from authority fallacy" when his lies about qualifications don't hold up
10. But then goes right back to how he has x qualification and so just knows how things work

I could go on lol. Anything other than presenting an argument. It's to be expected, though. I find it interesting to see how the people who are first to shout "trust the experts/science, people who don't hold my views are uneducated and don't read", respond when presented with experts/science with a premise that goes against their emotion-based shallow presuppositions. They don't seem to be able to even articulate their own views, yet alone analyse and respond to a counter-argument.

@Therealsteve

https://similarworlds.com/self/note/list-of-my-enemies-on-sw/5500144-SW-No-one-is-my-enemy-on-here

@DeWayfarer So, describe "socialism".

@Therealsteve

@ArishMell " The purpose of a management degree is not to teach running a trade or service, but how to seem Ever So Clever to mask"

That is one of the purposes of the degree. I'm the OP with the management and education degree. Some of my work involves teaching people about running organizations.

@ArishMell Also, you realise that a manager is a system, as well?

@Therealsteve Then re explain it then!

@Therealsteve Then explain it then! Stop insulting and teach

@JimboSaturn

You can't get blood out of a turnip. The point mentioned earlier that physicists can explain quantum mechanics or general relativity in layman's terms was very well taken. Your word-salad interlocutor is an abject phony.

@MayorOfCrushtown Can I join you?

@JimboSaturn of course !!!

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@bijouxbroussard White people get it backwards. DEI doesn't hire people because they are a minority, it just makes sure that people don't get the job just because they are white.

Case in point my wife and I work in the same area, which is only about 40% WASP. Her work was 95% white men, while my work more fairly represented the demographich. My work had DEI, hers did not.

@JimboSaturn We already know that left to their own devices, most industries here would be "white only"— because that’s what they did. Right down to our military with segregated troops.