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[–] aew360@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My mom is convinced that the Boeing airplane side panel blowout was because Boeing was focused on DEI. What the fuck

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Na I'm pretty sure the Boeing issues are due to outsourcing and shifting blame to subcontractors.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 8 points 1 year ago

That particularly piece of bullshit was platformed by none other than Elon Musk himself, the white supremacist piece of human filth he is.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Bogus conspiracy theories like that get pushed by management as a means of deflecting from their own failings and have the effect of hurting a lot of people

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ok define acronyms FFS (for fuck sake)

DEI = diversity, equity, and inclusion. Seeing what the hell is hidden behind the letters makes easier to see what this is about

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's right there in the first paragraph/sentence of the article.

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my defense this is what i see on the first page,

then its

then its

but yes you are right it appears close after the eventual headline. i missed that and i probably was annoyed by the scrolling to get to the darn article too

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, I scrolled through all that crap, too, but didnt comment on it. I'm not really sure who thinks that's a good idea, or who enjoys reading articles like that.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I had no idea what the hell the acronym meant either

[–] macgyver@federation.red 3 points 1 year ago

I was like what does Dale Earnhardt have to do with this

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly those attacking it also hate the words

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, it really annoyed me that the whole article never once defined it

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Michael O'Neill Burns of Wisecrack made a decent video yesterday, explaining the DEI rollback in a larger historical context.
DEI: Have We Lost Our Minds?

[–] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Billionaires trying to control and deny societal evolution. It’s too late. Resistance is futile. History will repeat itself. Each civil right victory was hard won. White Christian Nationalists need to feel some real pain for once.