Meta aka facebook getting rid of all DEI program's EDIT: AMAZON joins EDIT2: TARGET TOO

[UpNext]

Right wingers do that.

On purpose. They associate these sort of iniatives with black people because they know it will trigger a stronger negative emotion within their intended audience

I posted this link earlier in the thread

Embracing Change Through Inclusion: Meta’s 2022 Diversity Report | Meta

Read our Annual Diversity Report and learn how we're putting diversity at the forefront of building for the metaverse.

about.fb.com

It's Meta's official diversity report.


When you read it, it says Black, Hispanic, Black, Hispanic, Women, Black, Black, Black, Black, Black.


However when you actually look at the charts you can clearly see Asians by far and away making the most gains yet no mention of Asians by name anywhere in the written text.


Was it right wingers that published the diversity report where black is overly emphasized while we're making the least gains? Who's going to read that report and not attach black faces to DEI? Who's going to read that report and attach Asian faces to DEI?

 

[ALonelyDad]

Zuck was always lowkey right wing but he's being open on it now, probably sees how Elon can get away with it, plus he loves hanging out with UFC people.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

DEI push in tech started around 2015/16, not sure why y’all saying it only started around George Floyd. I remember interviewing in 2016 and 2018 and hella companies had DEI messaging. Now it really didn’t move the needle, but it existed before George Floyd


But white people are steamrolling non whites right now, this country is really heading to a scary place. Killed affirmative action and DEI, trying to deport illegals, want to kill the H1B, used their model minorities to kill AA and STILL didn’t let more of them in top schools and don’t put them in high management positions. White man is taking his shyt back and seems like everyone is letting him

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Anybody downplaying these programs is either a cac, an agent or ignorant.

These programs have been around for decades before they were rebranded “DEI”. They have helped thousands of black undergrads and grad students get a look that they normally wouldn’t get.

If you don’t believe me, go talk to career professionals at universities, both PWI and HBCU and you will see how invaluable these programs are to just giving black kids a their first good look.

I personally have friends who are directors/VP levels who got a good look because Fortune 500 companies had mandates to diversify and went recruiting at HBCUs and conferences like Black MBA conference.

These programs have literally helped tens of thousands of black professionals get their foot in the door.

Yep, everything from A Better Chance which has helped minority students navigate admissions to elite private high schools, LEAD Business program which introduces minority HS kids to F 500 businesses, to Inroads and SEO that help get minority college kids internships in top companies, these programs that help us gain access are invaluable, especially when you start seeing how they create generational advancement

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

My bad for having faith in mine and other black people's abilities. I must be on the wrong forum.

Having skills has never been the thing to get 99% of people their jobs. Access to those with hiring power, followed by “likability”/“culture fit” have always been the main factors. Unsurprisingly black people don’t generally have the access nor are they part of the culture fit white managers look for. Skills don’t matter when you can’t get in the door

 

[boogers]

Imagine being among the richest people in the world and still deep throating the dikk of a senile con artist who shyts himself in public

i cant imagine having that much money and walking around looking like that

is this his new "street" look or something? all that money and looking like b-rad

 

[NinoBrown]

No this is going to be the new normal .

Well for now, these fakkit white boomers caused all of this...

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

These programs have literally helped tens of thousands of black professionals get their foot in the door.

I wonder will this somehow kill of BEYA? The two years I went with my old org, we hired a LOT of kids from A&T, AAMU, FAMU, Bama State, & JSU on the spot. Even got one of the 2-star commands to start a paid internship program. I hope it doesn't go away.

Edit: also, kill the rich!

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

I mean we all knew this was bullshyt when our corporations implemented this. I’d roll my eyes every time I got an email about some DEI shyt. It was never going to be sustainable because companies were forced into it during George Floyd protests/COVID-19 impacts. They didn’t want this in the first place Back to the status quo. All your workplaces (if they rolled this out) will now follow.

Who forced them?

 

[Nigerianwonder]

I could respond but then I'll get dragged into a back and forth with somebody who isn't gonna change their views. Believe what you wanna believe. Then await reality. Any black person with actual skills and a competence isn't worried about this. Maybe you are.

This is a dumb take. Your skills don't matter if the recruiter is biased and your resume never even makes it to the hiring manager for consideration. A lot of these diversity efforts forced recruiters and hiring managers to have a diverse set of applicants interviewed for roles.

 

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Basically a way for these crackers to say they "understand us" and "feel our pain." It was never sincere.

 

[Ohene]

All the DEI gains at Meta for black people were in the DEI department they created to address DEI. Other than that, no difference.


Asians ate even though somehow they aren't socially considered to be diversity hires. But if you look at all these diversity numbers at all these tech companies, DEI = more Asians. They're the group that saw the biggest gains in representation by far during the DEI era

DEI benefits women more than racial groups

 

[feelosofer]

Some of you don't realize that the anti-DEI push is going to trickle down to a lot of the fields you work in. As tech goes, everyone else follows. Even if Black people are underrepresented in tech they are still there.

This is a means of cutting off the the oxygen and shutting doors for Black people to enter the middle class way more aggressively.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

DEI benefits women more than racial groups

A minority or underserved/marginalized group goes far beyond racial groups. Hell, even gender. State of TX gives certain tax breaks to companies that has a workforce of 10% veteran or disabled veterans. State of MI is hiring disabled vets without degrees if they have the experience desired and not the degree. I know the Intel community goes out of their way to hire disabled folks. DEI covers a larger swath of the population than most folks realize or care to realize.

But it always amazes me when folks who are against DEI and shyt, they never seem to have an issue with 10-pt vet preference, Indian preference, military spouse programs, recent grad, special hiring authorities, etc. All of them shyts could be argued are unfair hiring practices if one wanted to.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

This is a dumb take. Your skills don't matter if the recruiter is biased and your resume never even makes it to the hiring manager for consideration. A lot of these diversity efforts forced recruiters and hiring managers to have a diverse set of applicants interviewed for roles.

Even forced hiring boards to diversify