Biweekly my employer has an open questions forum for leadership and the past several meetings there has been someone(s) anonymously submitting questions about DEI. Any ideas on what a good question could be to possibly help the company reconsider or limit DEI initiatives?
I was thinking about asking something about why they've chosen to value equity over equality, as we've all heard the saying that "equality is equal opportunity and equity is equal outcome", however that seems to be more of the political definition as when I look up equity in the dictionary it just says "fairness, impartiality", so maybe that's not such a gotcha question I thought it would be.
Any suggestions?
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ― Ayn Rand
The problem with DEI, etc... is the dogma that a group > an individual. It's essentially the backbone of liberal hivemind (and Bureaucracies). It's so convenient to then use aggregated measures to cluster & divide people according to some difference (e.g. race, gender, income, etc). And of course, champion solutions to such contrived discrepancies.
I would ask what data/ statistics compliment the assertation that skills vary according to "group" membership and if hiring decisions/ promotions should be made from them? Also, if diversity is a hiring criteria, or job qualification, when will we see these characteristics added to job postings?