Trump Admin Slammed As ‘Stupidest’ Ever After Linking WWII Plane ‘Enola Gay’ To DEI
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Just to be clear, Enola Gay was the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, not... a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Summary

The Trump administration is facing backlash after reports that the Defense Department flagged over 26,000 images for deletion due to alleged connections to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Among them are photos of trailblazing pilots, including the Tuskegee Airmen and Col. Jeannie Leavitt.

Most controversially, an image of the WWII aircraft Enola Gay was flagged, seemingly because its name includes the word “gay.”

The revelation has sparked mockery online, with critics calling this “the STUPIDEST administration in American history.”

  • Slartibartfast@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    19 hours ago

    I absolutely think this new DEI hobbyhorse is just for the Magats to get to be racist pieces of shit but if I had to construct a coherent point against the concept of DEI hiring it might go:

    It’s obviously true that certain groups don’t have the advantages of others: the primary indicator of financial success is social-economic background. As such this is a long term vs short term decision. If we (an institution) want the best performance now we should hire in a meritocratic manner. If we want to raise our performance in the future we should apply DEI principles. This will inspire underrepresented groups into the field and this increase our pool of great minds. Given time this can be one of many tools to raise the maximum number of our potential workforce to their highest performance. However we want best performance now so we disregard that stuff in favour of performance now.

    But I don’t think it’s as black and white as that.

    • person420@lemmynsfw.com
      6·
      18 hours ago

      I just don’t buy it. I’ve worked at plenty of companies and I never saw it work that way. Sure, I’ve seen “we have to interview more candidates” or “we need to write our job applications to be more inclusive”, but I never saw “we need to hire the lessor candidate because they’re x”.

      In my experience when someone is whining that they lost a possible job to a “DEI hire”, they’re usually just butthurt that someone was better than them.

      • Slartibartfast@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        49 minutes ago

        Absolutely agree with you. I’ve been all over tech and engineering industry, in the arts too.

        I now work in a publicly funded university and it’s not happening here. If not here where the hell is it?

        We are encouraged to not dismiss people based on race, sex etc by our diversity training but anyone with half a brain doesn’t need that and the others would ignore it as ‘woke’ or some other cop out.