Woke... What does it mean?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I read it. Here's the Cliff Notes. There's no conflict between DEI and merit. DEI says you should hire on merit. DEI just notes that unless you make some targeted effort, you don't. Without DEI, "people go back to hiring people who look like them." And they will be completely sure they are just hiring the best.

Affirmative action, or is it's known today DEI has been bastardized into non-qualified people hired only because of their race and we know which race that is. Back in the days of WW2 those in charge maintained that Blacks lacked the capacity or the brain power to occupy leadership roles or even to fly aircraft. Some of that thinking is still around in that minorities and women are hired without being qualified for the job at hand because, you know, "they just aren't".