Why are diversity and inclusion such trigger words? Someone explain this to me please.

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Because people look at everything like a pie. Everyone always feels like they never have enough of the pie, and now you are asking them to share the pie... which means to them that they will get even less than what they have now.

Meanwhile, life is not a pie, and you don't have to lose something just by including others or modifying something so everyone can be included and considered.

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IMO there has to be a national alignment on what we want for our country. Equity just can't be applied as an overarching goal bc it is unsound. It just doesn't recognize population growth and economic growth and demographic change and demographic evolution. My vote or my networth can't continue to constitute x% when there are 60MM more people now than when I turned 18.

Do we want to have the highest competitive advantage among all countries? Highest avg quality of life? Undisputed economic dominance? Most billionaires? Pro DEI and Anti-DEI don't really answer these questions directly even though answers to questions like these would have a more profound impact on how we construct our society.

DEI ends up being divisive in situations where people make things divisive (or watch too much TV that leans too far in either direction). Everyone should be treated equally and with respect - no one in their right mind would argue that. When people start extending DEI to "everything is a microaggression" and "your skin color makes you automatically innocent or guilty", or people THINK they hear that commentary (because the misheard or someone else twisted the language that was used), it undermines the entire DEI movement.

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"With liberty and justice for all", "the premise that all men are created equal", "land of the free", "life liberty and pursuit of happines", with such things deeply embedded in our national lexicon, you'd think we could all agree on the importance of equity. Maybe one day 🤷🏻‍♂️

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From my experience it’s more the “equity” part when abused. A lot of people use diversity and inclusion as an umbrella for their own bias and personal perspective. Creating an exclusive and uniform perspective.

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Not all cases but a good number are due to right wing conspiracy theories that “they” (Jews, once you look at the other stuff they imply) use “diversity” as a means of “white genocide” (again, context wise stripped from Nazi propaganda and updated for today. Also “cultural Marxism” in both contexts).

Even without knowing the context or believing the conspiracy its shaped a good amount of opposition

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They’re not trigger words per se; the people behind DEI initiatives are usually the “True Believer” types though.

C.S. Lewis’s famous quote from God in the Dock comes to mind.

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Cause people get threatened by anything that might change the status quo.

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Every day is the definition of change. It’s not change that worries people, it’s the “slippery slope” of power.

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People are naturally afraid of change, and DEI programs typically seek to quantify that change, which makes it feel very real and perhaps even threatening to many people regardless of which "side" they are on. The world has exponentially changed the last 30 yrs+ (internet, AI, global political order, size of TVs, smart phones, modern jihadism, Chinese economic challenge, etc.), much faster than most boomers can adapt, not growing up native in digital and unstable environments the way millennial and gen Z have. Underneath all this DEI talk is a festering generational conflict that will be dramatic when it bubbles to the surface in the next 10 years.

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