hex on Nostr: nprofile1q…x2u03 in the wake of George Floyd, management sends out all this ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqp9t76z035svpg0tk87rmysa06p3etuxdzukhmte02w7zgdlt77rskx2u03 (nprofile…2u03) in the wake of George Floyd, management sends out all this messaging about DEI. They set up a meeting and all that. I'm a cis white dude so I'm not gonna try to get involved, just gonna listen and be supportive where I can.

Someone sets up a meeting on DEI. IIRC, it's led by a cis white man and a cis white woman. They start the meeting with just names, no pronouns or access needs. I'd brought up that maybe pronouns should be included in the past, but nope.

They introduce the absolute most entry level content that assumes an audience of shitty cis white dudes who are not immigrants. Sure, that's important, but this audience has a good chunk of black and brown folks, a lot who are immigrants from India and SE Asia.

They show a video that shows a white guy harassing a brown skin woman "where she's *really* from." The white folks leading the thing are like "don't ask people where they're from." A brown skin dude with an accent is like, "I ask people where they're from all the time. I'm an immigrant. If I see someone I think is from my country, I want to talk to them." White folks are confused and keep trying to say, "no, you can't because it's wrong." They don't say "microaggression" or talk about how context matters, they just keep insisting that it's really not OK.

These white folks spend the next hour or so continuing to whitely explain how to not be a shitty white dude to an audience with a good chunk of not cis white men.

Several meetings like this, but they never answer my request to either amend the gender selection for dependances so it doesn't force me to specify a binary for my (non-binary) partner or my kids (who we were raising gender neutral).

I saw several leadership meetings get planned around DEI. I even offered my help and joined one. People threw around some ideas. I chimed in with the idea that perhaps leadership meetings focusing on DEI should not be staffed exclusively by cis white men. I may have suggested bringing in a consultant. I'm not sure if there were more meetings after that, definitely none that I was included on. I think the next staff meeting after that was led by two white women.

This is what corporate DEI looks like from the inside. It's probably better than nothing, but it's also almost indistinguishable from nothing. I don't know what to say about the fact that they managed to make a DEI presentation racist by assuming a white audience, but there it was.