I wanted to create a space to hear positions on the attempt to eliminate DEI and incorporate MEI in the hiring practice.
My concerns: (just naming a few)
1. There is an assumption that DEI excludes a person's professional achievements.
2. There is an assumption that a person of color is hired ONLY because of their ethnicity/race.
3. There is an assumption that the hiring/educational/business policies are not systemically racist.
What do you think? Comment for or against. All comments are welcomed.
Changing labels most often reflects simply a failure to enact previous ideas more successfully than any real progress. Of course, that could also mean that those labels should be 'retired'. The advantage of a truly "free market" is that the best ideas and methods will most often succeed over the others even if those others are never eliminated. Hiring for quotas of any sort by any characteristic is rarely (never?) a sound policy for robust and vibrant organizations.
Thank you for your contribution to this discussion, Steven.
Does your response take into consideration the systemic racism that has historically prevented the under-utilized/underresourced from gaining access to the 'free market'?
Yes, it does. Racism and bigotry are nothing new, and did not originate in the United States of America, nor is it the worst example of them. Slogans and Mottos are fine, but OVERCOMING social problems is usually done by hard work and excellence by individuals. Groups of them may be even more effective. But, the gains are not made by labels, but by useful outcomes.
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