• Flax@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    Isn’t the context of the whole black thing about DEI/Affirmative action though?

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      2 hours ago

      But that’s bullshit. They are still qualified it just makes you look at other people. The amount of people who don’t understand DEI is insane. Watch John Stewart’s video in it.

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      4 hours ago

      Yes, it is. He always used to harp on affirmative action DEI leading to less qualified and able people getting jobs. So this results in the perception that any minority working in a qualified profession like pilot is only there because of DEI, not because of their skills and qualifications.

      Watch this video for context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjN6A8ruo4 Parts of it are used in the submitted edit.

      Charlie Kirk has said plenty of crap. There’s no need to misrepresent his views by selective editing.

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        2 hours ago

        But that is not what DEI does. DEI is there ro combat the old white boys club. What makes you think hiring Smith’s sin is going to get you the best candidate. To think without DEI you where Gurung the best candidate is such bullshit.

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          Exactly, I heard this from people from literal NASA. It changed my whole perspective. It’s about ensuring the maximum number of viewpoints around a given table, because that’s how you avoid blind spots. You want as many perspectives as possible on a problem.

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            1 hour ago

            There’s an episode of Reply All about this where they talk about efficiency and how more diverse teams are not necessarily more efficient at the beginning but over time greatly increase efficiency because more diverse life experience results in more ideas.

            I think the episode is #52: Raising the Bar

            Basically, when faced with a difficult problem, a more diverse team gets better results, which makes sense because different life experiences = different knowledge bases = fewer gaps.

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        4 hours ago

        Charlie Kirk has said plenty of crap. There’s no need to misrepresent his views by selective editing.

        That’s why I’m questioning why people are using this. There’s literally a clip of him going on about “prowling blacks”

        I think his point was that affirmative action would justify forms of racism in a way, and that was a bad thing, so he was calling it out