Also, do you think there will ever be a case in the relatively near future that takes DIE (DEI) all the way to the Supreme Court at least because of it’s inherent racism and the federal government’s insistence that all businesses over a certain number of employees must have a DIE program/departments (DIE=DEI/ DEIB - they are adding belonging (B) to get away from those of us who more accurately rearrange the letters form DIE. Don’t let them, it will do more harm than good to let them add another nebulous word to muddy the waters.)
I think SCOTUS could take up cases about DEI quotas/hiring practices once DEI believers/employees sue states (like FL, TX, NC, TN, SD and several others) for recently removing their DEI offices from public schools and universities. And I agree, adding 'belonging' attempts to divert the contentious connotations away from the euphemistic 'inclusive' term, but they're synonymous in my mind.
Such a SCOTUS ruling against DEI initiatives may set precedent that anti-DEI activists in Congress then use to strike down DEI initiatives the Biden-Harris Administration has instituted in most if not all their Executive branch agencies. I expect a Republican POTUS like Trump would remove them and fire executive DEI officers, but a SCOTUS decision could bar them from ever being established again, as violations of Civil Rights-era legislation.
Good question. By 'not to mention any minority identity' I meant Smith argues DEI is based on Black and Brown people negating their individual identities and lived experiences to a fictional monolithic oppression, as white people are expected to via their supposed collective guilt. None escape the categorical imperatives. In 2015 in CA, my Hispanic colleagues were disturbed at being labeled all the -isms by DEI training staff for being oppressively 'white-adjacent'. One straight up cried and confided in me the labels were so wrong.
By 'abundantly point out' I meant that Smith's articles I quote extend his thorough critique of antiracism from his book "A Critique of Antiracism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment". I realize I omitted clearly referencing that now, but I think I will link the book in the article. Thx for your feedback!
Also, do you think there will ever be a case in the relatively near future that takes DIE (DEI) all the way to the Supreme Court at least because of it’s inherent racism and the federal government’s insistence that all businesses over a certain number of employees must have a DIE program/departments (DIE=DEI/ DEIB - they are adding belonging (B) to get away from those of us who more accurately rearrange the letters form DIE. Don’t let them, it will do more harm than good to let them add another nebulous word to muddy the waters.)
I think SCOTUS could take up cases about DEI quotas/hiring practices once DEI believers/employees sue states (like FL, TX, NC, TN, SD and several others) for recently removing their DEI offices from public schools and universities. And I agree, adding 'belonging' attempts to divert the contentious connotations away from the euphemistic 'inclusive' term, but they're synonymous in my mind.
Such a SCOTUS ruling against DEI initiatives may set precedent that anti-DEI activists in Congress then use to strike down DEI initiatives the Biden-Harris Administration has instituted in most if not all their Executive branch agencies. I expect a Republican POTUS like Trump would remove them and fire executive DEI officers, but a SCOTUS decision could bar them from ever being established again, as violations of Civil Rights-era legislation.
I MUCH prefer the SCOTUS avenue. And a congressional legislative one against such attempts in future too.
I’m sorry, what did you mean exactly by this part: “not to mention any minority identity as Erec Smith abundantly points out”
Good question. By 'not to mention any minority identity' I meant Smith argues DEI is based on Black and Brown people negating their individual identities and lived experiences to a fictional monolithic oppression, as white people are expected to via their supposed collective guilt. None escape the categorical imperatives. In 2015 in CA, my Hispanic colleagues were disturbed at being labeled all the -isms by DEI training staff for being oppressively 'white-adjacent'. One straight up cried and confided in me the labels were so wrong.
By 'abundantly point out' I meant that Smith's articles I quote extend his thorough critique of antiracism from his book "A Critique of Antiracism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment". I realize I omitted clearly referencing that now, but I think I will link the book in the article. Thx for your feedback!