Posted on 04/26/2023 7:27:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Glover says that when he became a writer for 30 Rock, Tina Fey told him he was a diversity hire. To this anyone could ask, How does she know he's a diversity hire? To that question I'd ask, How could anyone be sure he isn't?
This is the great trouble with enforcing diversity. When the Army, or a university, or the American Medical Association promotes "diversity," the only person you can be sure deserves the promotion is the "least diverse" person in the room. Everybody else, no matter how skilled, becomes suspect. And there's no way to clear him from it. Every time he walks into a room, the degree, instead of making a statement, raises a question. That's a painful place for the graduate to be in — almost as painful as having cancer and getting a diversity hire for a doctor.
The term diversity hire is an insult. It means your skill had less value for you than your skin color, your religion, or your sexual orientation. In other words you were hired for the job based on anything other than your ability to do the job.
It was meant to be charity, but it ended up being robbery. First robbed are the people who deserved the job and didn't get it. Second are the people who deserved the job, and everybody thinks they didn't deserve it. But third — and easily the worst off — are the people who think they're going to get something good and end up getting hurt. Say, for instance, the mothers who get misdiagnosed and end up dying for no good reason. Or the teenagers who get a faulty car that stops working right when they're on the freeway. Or our siblings who trust buildings that collapse on them.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This started before 1970, a lot of people don’t know that, in the early days employers weren’t used to watching their language yet and would say it straight out, you are a white man, we can’t take you.
“Executive Order 10925
On March 6, 1961 President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, which included a provision that government contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” The intent of this executive order was to affirm the government’s commitment to equal opportunity for all qualified persons, and to take positive action to strengthen efforts to realize true equal opportunity for all. This executive order was superseded by Executive Order 11246 in 1965.”
Only if they are "transgender".
Otherwise, just shut up and move to the back of the line.
You are outranked by Muslims, Gays, Transgenders, Lesbians, Hispanics and Blacks. You can still bump ahead of any White Male Christians that remain.
It means your skill had less value for you than your skin color, your religion, or your sexual orientation. In other words you were hired for the job based on anything other than your ability to do the job.
Jeremy Egerer 'gets it". This liberal 'elite' charity is a horror and insulting for all.. and as usual hurts the people most who it was meant to help.
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“The term diversity hire is an insult” so DEI is ok? we went for affirmative action, to diversity to DEI all the same sh## and the same floating cesspool
DEI is too religious sounding. I propose calling it what it actually is: IED.
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