Mandatory DEI statements are becoming the norm in academic hiring
This is the sort of thing that confounds me. It proports to be anti racist but it&#x27;s the opposite, it treats minorities as a special lesser class that require protection from everyone else. It&#x27;s the civil rights movement in reverse.<p>It&#x27;s already started bleeding into the workspace with mandatory training and verbiage that essentially says anything you do in your interactions with a minority if they accuse you of anything they are right and you must meekly accept it and bow your head in shame.<p>The worst part of it is at most of the companies with strong DEI programs there are zero minorities in leadership. it&#x27;s a dog and pony show that is only forced upon the non sr. leadership.<p>You even have companies doing layoffs now intentionally focused on laying off non minorities.<p>Another issue is that Asians while less in number than most other minorities are treated as white by DEI.<p>I worry about my kids if this keeps escalating. I dislike Desantis for many reasons but ended up voting for him specifically for this reason and a couple of other cultural issues.