The real DEI hire.

[onecaliberal]

[Irish_Dem]

1. I'll take DEI over Nepo baby.

[Ollie Garkie]

4. Yep.

This. So this.

[DoBW]

14. Abso freaking lutely ...

Hey, what is GAAP?

[Irish_Dem]

15. No idea.

[DoBW]

16. Ok ... Nepo babies in action

"Businessmen"

[Irish_Dem]

17. Liars, cheats and frauds.

[UpInArms]

18. GAAP

Generally Accepted Accounting Practices

[czarjak]

20. For crooks.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. 100%!

Unless you have a diverse staff, you haven’t hired the best people, period.

[wendyb-NC]

3. Absolutely, spot on

[uponit7771]

5. THIS !!!!

[dchill]

6. Turnabout is fair play.

[orangecrush]

7. Word

[Takket]

8. this nails the crux of the whole issue, doesn't it?

The importance of DEI initiatives is that it is win win for the employees, and for the government/companies. Too often, and it is pretty much only in white male circles, people get hired because they are someone's son, or cousin, or went to college with them, or they play softball together, or golf together. Good old boys who watch each others backs and lead to people in companies that doesn't actually know what they are doing, while the company not only shuts out diversity, but more qualified people as well. Those same white males just assume "oh, well a black woman could never get a job unless some DEI program forced them on us." No, that's not what DEI is. DEI is about lifting the quality of a company's employees while diversifying at the same time. It is a win win for everyone involved, except for the forner frat buddy who loses out on a VP or marketing gig because he's never done a damn thing in his life with marketing.

[Emile]

9. Perfect reply!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Brilliant because it is true. . . . nt

[sarchasm]

11. So true!

This meme is spot on!

[Biophilic]

12. Damn, so simple,so true, so obvious. nt

[Martin68]

13. I like the. Turn-around is certainly fair play.

[Zoomie1986]

19. Many years ago

Back in the late 70s or early 80s when conservatives were having hissy fits about affirmative action (DEI 1.0), I read a column where the pundit pointed out that white men really had no room to complain about affirmative action hiring when they had enjoyed that very thing for over 200 years.

Still true over 40 years later. Only the terminology has changed.