Why some companies are ditching DEI initiatives

Race and equity expert Dr. Rosemarie Allen explains why corporations across the nation are rolling back DEI efforts - including Colorado's own Molson Coors.


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[tyvovo]

People should be hired for skill not race or gender. These DEI laws are litterally discrimitory.

[SecretMeat]

Go Woke and go Broke is no JOKE!! Companies like money more than politics.

[thoughtcriminal-kl]

"Everyone is equal but some people are more equal than others" It's always been absurd.

[wanfu]

Preferential treatment is EXACTLY what DEI is all about. She is doing some hard wish fulfillment is she thinks everyone being hired is qualified.

[SpartacusColo]

If people were qualified, then there wouldn't ever have been a problem. This lady doesn't get it. This isn't failing because people are "afraid". It's failing because it's failing: companies are losing money, open to legitimate lawsuits, and it's not about fairness.

This is one of the best bits of news I've seen in quite a while.

[Dontquoteme]

I remember when I first saw "Dean of Equity and Inclusion" on a plaque on a door in a hallway and a Jaguar in the staff parking. I laughed my ass off for a month. I wanted to put up a sign in the staff parking lot that read;
"All indoctrination and re education proffessors please turn in your buguazae motor cars to the Redistribution Kommisar"

[Cucumberflavoredmustard]

A company exists to make and distribute a quality product at a reasonable price. Everything should be geared towards that end. Anything else is a drag.

[jacktaktical]

Its the TQ+ fault, real LGB's just want to be treated normally and live peacefully, none of us want DEI bs or pride month

[AndyGarcia-nrzm]

Almost like businesses are meant to make profits while hiring the best people for the job. 🤥

[Idontcare-gn]

I'll shop elsewhere then at any business that uses DEI

[dave]

Yeah, right. I call bullsh*t. It will be a cold day in Hell when Colorado drops DEI standards.

[dogdog]

For DEI in media it was never about the promotion of social justice or cultural harmony and had everything to do with money. There was an attempt by companies to reach a wider/new audience by reaching out to demographics that don’t typically buy the product. Look how fast Bud Light went from being pro trans rights to we support the troops after their DEI efforts blew up in their face.

[kevinfrench]

Dei is literally segregating but in an insentive way .

[TheBLGL]

Fine. Then one HR rep that is not on the hiring committee should remove any ethnic or gender indicators (such as name and names of universities) and the interview should be done over Slack or some other DM program. That’s really the only way we can know that the companies aren’t being racist or sexist.

[Dontquoteme]

Is it because they arent Marxists or Communists?

[IPASAustralia]

Solution? All job applicantions are submitted without a name or age or other details that identify the sex, age, race, religion of the applicant. Make every applicant sit a suitable test to ascertain ability and capability and knowledge of the prospective job, Have it include an IQ test and literacy/numeracy test and then select the people with the highest scores. This system discriminates between the most suitable and the less suitable / unsuitable, as it should. Problem solved! Selection is based on merit and there is no age/race/sex/religioni discrimination.

[Realbeardedgamerdad]

The fact you have a race and equity expert says everything lol… she’s gone soon too! LOL

[jessequest]

Plumbers are majority WHITE men so I think we should shed some light on that issue because we need to rectify that !!! more minorities and people of color for sure

[Ultra_Dark_MAGA_Man]

It's simple. Race, gender, sex, religion should not be a factor in hiring decisions. If we're going to end discrimination, end all of it.

[swagger]

DEI = Reverse Discrimination. It's not an accusation, its fact.