Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: DEI Training’s Unintended Consequences

All big companies now require "DEI" training for employees, but studies say that often BACKFIRES.

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One study looked at 800 companies, and found that after companies did trainings, they actually came to have FEWER black managers.

How is that possible? Erec Smith, a former DEI trainer, now a Professor of Rhetoric at York College, tells me: "It seems to be making people less likely to interact with people who are unlike them ... because it's like a minefield now."

He explains that the trainings can make people so afraid of saying something wrong, that people just avoid each other.

“If you ask somebody what they do for a living, somehow that's racist, right? If you learn that, then why would you take a chance?"

That's the just the tip of the iceberg, regarding DEI's problems.

You can watch the video above for more strange ideas that come from it, like “try to be less white" and the idea that some kids don't need to learn standard English.

[aperson]

I'm *Black* I was born in the 80s. My world was filled with black artists, athletes, musicians, singers, actors, writers, directors, political figures, on and on. I *NEVER* once thought I was limited in life because of the color of my skin. Fast forward to today and they are teaching young black kids that their race, gender, and sexuality is a curse.

Is racism dead? Nah, but much like Thomas Sowell said, it's being kept on life support. DEI is "supposed" to bring an end to racism... But it literally perpetuates it. It's discriminatory, mean spirited, inaccurate, and exclusionary. Everyone knows to these people "inclusive" means anti-straight-white. Everyone else is included. How do you plan to fight discrimination with discrimination?

DEI doesn't make me feel "included" It makes me feel like a charity case. Bringing race up at every turn is not helping end racism, it's boosting it. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that's by design. The more the people fight amongst each other, the less we focus on the powerful crooks manipulating us all. We are all pawns in a very sick game of chess. It's time we figured that out.

[porterwake]

High school teacher here. We do this every Wednesday in our teacher meetings. It is the most disgusting and divisive thing I've ever been part of. Our assistant principal literally said "students of color are facing discipline referrals at far higher levels than our white students and that could be because of my own bias." To which I wish I would have said, if that is true, you should be fired immediately. Is it because students of color are breaking student handbook rules at a greater rate, or are you applying the rules differently to students of color? If the latter is true, he should be fired immediately.

[MiaMia-rxdw]

We had one of these kind of trainings at work, it wasnt even that in depth & all that happened was a yelling match & one employee ended up quiting a week later🤷‍♀️
Before this everything was fine, everyone liked each other & laughed together all day. Its so crazy how quickly it divides ☹️

[EmP-]

My husband is a web designer, so he sees a lot of DEI pages, especially for universities. His motto is "if you have to announce your diversity, you probably aren't actually that diverse."

[carolgoldbaum]

What it really stands for: Division, Exclusion, Intolerance

[stevekunde]

What I have learned from DEI training….

As a straight white guy in my 40’s, I am the biggest problem in the workforce, I am the most racist, sexist, bigoted person in the workplace and should be ashamed to be there and apologize everyday.

I have also learned I will never advance any further in my career because I don’t fill any of the required boxes and my promotion would be taking a chance away from a “marginalized” group.

[notofthisworld]

I'm a gay man that worked in nursing homes for years. Some of the staff treated me "special" after they found out I was gay. Honestly, it hurt me more than helped to know I was only liked and treated special via political correctness because I was gay instead of a good worker.

Diversity training is intimidating, undermining, divisive and so on. It honestly needs to go.

[cynicalchimp]

I was taught my whole life not to judge people because of the color of their skin. Now it appears thats all that matters is one's skin color.

[gregzoller]

I went to one of these trainings where the virtues of a diverse team was preached. “So..”, I said…”My team is majority Indian, with more female managers than male, two black guys, two asian ladies, and one latino. In a team of 40, there was only one other white dude besides myself. If I understand what you’re saying, I should hire and promote a few white males to balance out the population, right?”. The facilitator was not amused.

[owenthompson]

"Having standards is biased against people who have no standards" yes, professor, that is the point and what we're going for

[disappearintothesea]

My school district does DEI “trainings” 2-3 times a calendar year. It is so cringey, dumb, and you can always tell no one wants to be there. Instead of wasting money on crap like this, they should be spending the money on updating school facilities and equipment for students.

[JOHN----DOE]

I remember the first required "diversity training" I experienced in a college in the 1990s. A black woman stood in front of a bunch of Ph.D.s and blacksplained diversity, starting with "I see very few diverse people in this room." Whereupon the usually very mellow Vietnamese-born economics professor behind me started to steam and finally broke out with, "do you mean black? If so, say so!" and went on about the racism of assuming only black people get marginalized, triggered, or otherwise had some special victim status. I can tell you, none of the very-liberal, cosmopolitan professors in that room were "improved" in their attitudes by the diversity training, except by my colleague's comment.

[mattbarrett]

I went to a Catholic school in the 80’s…….. my English teacher was an African American nun. She held a Master’s in Education. Her speech was exacting. Her standards were high. Her mantra was: “Say what you mean, mean what you say”. Slang was not acceptable. She made us all eloquent users of the English language. She gave us the tool of verbal/written exactitude.

[sarathurston]

I want someone to apologize for driving my family out of my childhood home in the 1960s and losing almost all property value, by turning our neighborhood into a crime-infested, dangerous hellhole.

[scottlarsen]

I recall in such training being told, "It's not what you say, but how it's perceived." Huh? So, the safe play, is to not communicate?

[valencia]

A mature, black, woman here... Each time I read or view videos about DEI, I become mentally drained over how so-called intelligent people could possibly think that such training, in its current form, is a good idea. It infantilizes people of color and marginalizes whites.
This is not what my forebearers fought for. It is illegal to deny anyone their civil rights. The rest of the work is left up to the individual to build mental muscle, treat all people civilly, and pursue their goals in life. Everything else is an exercise in futility and child-like performance. Great segment by John Stossel and Erec Smith.

[johnhensler]

“If you want to hold down a group of people without them know it, this woke thing is a good strategy. “

Wow. That is brilliant.

[SimsChannel]

They’re always angry. They always find something wrong. They’re never satisfied. It’s always MORE that needs to be done

[BryanTorok]

I had the opportunity in the 1990s in college to see the language grading from both sides. While working on an engineering technology degree I was required to a series of English courses called College Composition. In one class, the instructor was a young Black woman. The first paper of mine that she graded, she gave me a D. I was shocked as other professors in other classes had praised the quality of my writing. She deducted points for things that were correct and I could prove it. When I asked her about those items and showed books and dictionaries to back up my claim, she refused to correct the grade. I looked at one of my Black classmates papers. It was awful. The whole page was two paragraphs of one sentence each, with no other punctuation.

At that point, I took my complaint to the head of the English department. It helped my credibility that I was carrying a 4.0/4.0 (straight As) GPA. He said he would look into it. I don't know exactly what happened behind the scenes, but my paper received an "A" and I didn't have any more problems with that instructor.

In another class in the same series, I had a very strict professor. He graded one of my papers that was written in class a "B". I was conferring with him about the paper and saw his grade book lying open on the desk. I saw that my paper had the highest point grade and asked him if my paper had the highest grade in the class, why wasn't it an "A"? He explained that he did not grade on a curve but rather used objective standards. He pointed out my errors and I agreed with him.

So, in the first case, I believe I was clearly the victim of racial bias. Fortunately, I was able to get that corrected. I'm not at all sure that I would have the same outcome today. In the second case, I was subjected to a reasonable objective grading standard. Since the standard was reasonable and applied evenly to all of that professors students, I did not have any room to complain.

[MegaTeeruk]

I work for a Fortune 15 company in leadership and was having difficulty filling a role. Turns out it was because our "diversity" policy was preventing them from sending me the resumes of white males because I had to first interview "a woman and person of color" before being allowed to review white males. I protested this and pointed out that we work in tech and more than half our employees are from Southeast Asia already and less than 20% of STEM graduates are women. This was interpreted as me saying women could not do the job. Thank God the conversation was in writing so I was able to show what I actually said. I was still hauled before the "diversity commission" and lectured and told that even though it's not what I said the feelings of the HR person I had said it to were "still valid and she is entitled to her perception".

It's insanity. She literally lied on me and I was the one pulled in for discipline for it.