I think that the more realistic reason is that DEI is not really an acronym that stands for something to them. It's simply the name for their enemy. A word they can use in place of a slur, and in a way, more effective than your average slur because it encompasses all the oppressed groups they don't care for. Saying "we hate dei" is just faster than saying "we hate the inclusion of trans people, black people Mexicans, immigrants, etc". They wield the term as a weapon and would do so regardless of what the letters stand for.
I told my friend who asked about what tf is going on in the gaming space. I told him just imagine any time you hear DEI replace it with the hard r word. Then you will actually understand what they are trying to get across
It’d tbe same with the word Woke, or BLM, or whatever other boogeyman the chuds have. None of them mean actually anything to them they’re just a synonym for “enemy” as you said
This is why they'll sometimes say shit that makes no fucking sense to us but to them seems like it has deep meaning.
Like, "Anyone who comes into my house and tries to iron MY clothes is getting a bullet between their eyes!"
And you're like "wtf are you talking about?"
And it turns out that like 3 weeks ago a news article had a stock image of someone ironing clothes while wearing a rainbow bracelet or something totally innocuous and they got themselves all worked up about it. They don't give a shit about ironing clothes, or not, or bracelets, or rainbows, or whatever. Their hatred is formless and malleable. It's whatever symbol they are told is "the enemy".
It's even better when the source is AI slop, meaning that they're quite literally just coming up with their own scenarios to lose their shit over and blame on the left lmao
The idea that the solution to bigotry is to do as little as possible and let the world solve the problem itself is simply not a realistic one. Hatred and misunderstanding of the perceived other is a sickness of the human mind, that won't simply go away by wishing it to. Waiting for justice from an unjust society will lead the oppressed to wait forever. Positive action must be taken to reverse the ever flowing course of hatred. If you have a better solution to the problems of bigotry, I suggest you state them.
People act like the policies of colorblindness presumably espoused by MLK in his "I have a dream" speech were created by God himself, but in reality he only believed a colorblind would could be created through a continuous fight for racial justice (yes that's actually the term he used) which requires positive action, and he knew that the fight would last long past the civil rights bill (which was really just the basics).
Newsflash: that's how it has always been. For most of US history, since the world has to revolved around their ass, that group was just white men who got better treatment than anyone else. It's laughable to act like the solution is to do nothing but pretend that everyone is treated equal when the first black girl in an unsegrated classroom is still alive and the organizer's of the first pride would be in their 60's.
The only people who want to keep pretending it was ever a fair playing field are the ones who were winning in that system.
yet youre here bitching about what again? diversity, equity, and inclusion? lol yeah, not racist tho. or thinks its implemented badly because they say so. sure bud. sure
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u/Wasabi_Knight 1d ago
I think that the more realistic reason is that DEI is not really an acronym that stands for something to them. It's simply the name for their enemy. A word they can use in place of a slur, and in a way, more effective than your average slur because it encompasses all the oppressed groups they don't care for. Saying "we hate dei" is just faster than saying "we hate the inclusion of trans people, black people Mexicans, immigrants, etc". They wield the term as a weapon and would do so regardless of what the letters stand for.