I indirectly realized what DEI was, realized a fundamental aspect of lefty thought, and that apparently I’m not a lefty.
The story starts with Gender Neutrality. A little while ago, the Trump Administration made military testing Gender Neutral and I watched as there was tons of opposition by the lemmy lefties. So, over the last few days, I dug more in to it and, sure enough, the vast majority of lemmy lefties are viciously against Gender Neutrality. Highly for gender Equality; but highly against gender Neutrality.
I came up with various iffy reasonings, like that Gender Neutrality is a removing of gender instead of respecting chosen genders; but meh. The interesting thing is what I noticed under the surface. The main reasoning for hate against the gender neutral military tests is that it was assumed they would be passed by a larger amount of males than females. This is where I started to realize DEI. The lefty approach is to manipulate the tests so women have easier tests and males have harder tests; thus resulting in a genderbalanced military.
So, in a job, same approach. If not ‘enough’ minorities are in a job, manipulate the variables so that there are more.
So what is this? The lefty way to create equality? Unbalance the playing field just right so there are equal amounts of different types of people? The cost of Equality, gained in this way, is removal of Neutrality (sexual and ethnic).
Anyway, this was a fascinating realization; and I had kept hearing about DEI and suddenly deeply understand it along with the fight against it. So what is the best approach?
My initial thought is that periods of DEI alternating with periods of not DEI seems best unless the culture is high in appreciation of diversity with a norm of naturally bringing in diverse types of people. The reason for alternating times of DEI and not DEI is so that the norm of diversity can be created through DEI, and then, through a period of notDEI, evolution can occur naturally without artificial forces. It’s like training wheels. Without change, some people are blocked from where they want to be. So DEI it up to allow them to be where was previously blocked to them. But remove DEI every once in a while and see if that “norm of naturally bringing in diverse types of people” has arisen yet. If it has, the training wheels are no longer needed; because the goal is not to forever force people to ‘do the right thing’, but to have a culture where the norm is to naturally do it themselves.
Anyway, I naturally prefer Neutrality, which I realize now blocks the lefty ability to create Equality. Really is fascinating. Thoughts?
You’re missing the point and pedantically obsessing over one example. You don’t need equations to know that being able to carry more in one load has some advantages. Yes, men can carry more in a single load, but women tend to be better at tasks like long duration walking. Or imagine if all uniforms were sized for women because companies can save on materials cost. The point is there are other examples where if we designed construction entirely around women’s bodies, then men would find that they are completely unable to work in the construction industry. For each example of optimizing to a gender, companies could save some money by doing so.
For example, consider hand size. Women tend to have smaller hands then men. Imagine if we designed machines to be maintained by the hands the size of those of the average woman, tight spaces that most men would find impractical to work in. And this would mean engines could be smaller and require less material. If a man complained, we would then just mock him and say, “ha! Look at your giant cave man hands. Engines don’t have a gender, you woke fool. If you can’t do the job, stay back in the kitchen. Men are too irrational, emotional, and aggressive to work around heavy construction equipment anyway!”
Or consider something like an office. Offices typically have the temperature set at the temp necessary to keep a man in a suit cool, resulting in women freezing. Imagine if we had built the professional world around the bodies of women instead. You know, if we set the ceilings in offices at 6’, we could cram more floors inside shorter buildings. Most women could get along just fine with this, while most men would constantly be bumping into the ceiling as their heads rise a bit as they walk. Taller men would have to walk around all day with their necks crooked. If they complained, the women would just say, “ceilings don’t have a gender. If you can’t handle the requirements of an office environment, get back in the kitchen where you belong!”