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Woke and DEI (self.usa)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Curious_Canid to c/[email protected]

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DEI seems to have taken over from Woke as the all-purpose MAGA terms for "this is bad". DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As with Woke, which seems to an accusation of using rational thought, DEI seems like it would be difficult to interpret as bad. Saying that you strongly oppose diversity, equity, and inclusion is a pretty frank admission of your values.

This use of DEI seems to translate directly as "insufficiently racist".

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[–] troyunrau 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not wrong.

It's a vocabulary treadmill. The right vilify a term (turning it into an insult), the left reinvents a term to make it less insulting, the right vilify the new term, repeat.

It's actually super annoying if you're a centrist -- the definitions keep changing and you get stuck in this linguistic tug-of-war.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

well, centrists can fuck off anyway

[–] troyunrau 1 points 3 weeks ago

One of my favourite authors wrote one of my favourite articles: "Am I a bad feminist?" By Margaret Atwood

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/ (view in incognito mode or similar to bypass paywall)

Quoting: "We are acceptable neither to Right nor to Left. In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated."

The topic of her essay is not relevant to this particular topic, but the quote resonates nevertheless.