#DEI efforts

[dei360]

Navigating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Remote and Hybrid Work Environments

In today's evolving work landscape, embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is crucial for fostering a thriving workplace culture. As organizations increasingly adopt remote and hybrid work setups, it's essential to understand how DEI principles can be applied effectively in these new contexts.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward remote and hybrid work models, presenting both opportunities and challenges for DEI initiatives. While remote work offers flexibility and access to a broader talent pool, it also introduces barriers to inclusion and collaboration. Additionally, hybrid work setups require careful consideration to ensure that all employees feel valued and included, regardless of their location or working arrangement.

To navigate these challenges, organizations must prioritize DEI efforts and implement strategies tailored to remote and hybrid work environments. This includes fostering open communication channels, providing equitable access to resources and opportunities, and promoting a culture of belonging across virtual and physical spaces.

By embracing DEI in remote and hybrid work environments, organizations can create more inclusive and equitable workplaces where all employees can thrive.

[cygniavenue]

sleeping on the job

[msclaritea]

‘Good Times’ Sets Ranada Shepard As Showrunner; JB Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown & Jay Pharoah To Star In Netflix’s Animated Reboot

Conclusion? OBNOXIOUS, ARROGANT, IGNORANT

Black people are increasingly over the Blackface, Anti bullshit, coming out of companies like Netflix and HULU and they are also increasingly OVER the Black actors and actresses, stepping up to do minstrel roles.

BE WARNED... HOLLYWOOD IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS STARTED A WAR AGAINST ACTORS. YOU WANT TO SELL OUT? GO AHEAD. BUT DON'T ACT SHOCKED WHEM THE PUBLIC NO LONGER KISSES YOUR ASS FOR IT.

Proof positive that corporations like Microsoft, under the guise of DEI, filled their ranks with activist employees from Leftist, Misandrist and Queer groups. That most of these spoiled shit stirrers are young white women (with a couple of black girls thrown in for some peppery spice) should tell men exactly what they're about: Authoritarianism. They'll do anything to hurt people in general, and the economy, in particular. Meantime, like clockwork, the GOP are blaming the failures of DEI off of the very people who never actually had control of it. Progressives always did, including black boule style race traitors. They are deliberately causing divisions with their Diversity Cosplay.

[aroundmeblackbats]

grumpy! in the workplace!

[xkittzkornerx]

Woke, when used negatively, has become a dog whistle. Ask them to describe to you what ‘woke’ means and why it is bad. Why is being socially conscious bad? Why is caring for others bad?

Ask them to spell out each word in DEIA.

What is bad about diversity? Nature thrives off it, and so do business and institutions. It’s important to see things from all kinds of perspectives. You might miss some kind of nuance that someone else won’t, or there might be a gap in your knowledge that someone else can fill.

What is bad about equity? There are people in this world give an extraordinarily bad hand, usually by the government, and they deserve kindness. There should be an even playing field in such a rich, “just” country.

What is wrong with inclusion? Division causes violence, fear, and hatred. It is one of our worst problems. It is important for us in the working class to stand in solidarity with one another. We are stronger together.

What is wrong with accessibility? Why should people with autism or chronic illness not be able to hold a job? Do you believe they should be forced into homelessness? Why should a business be allowed to exclude people using wheelchairs just because they don’t wanna build a ramp and elevators? Do you genuinely believe blind children don’t deserve access to braille, and that veterans with PTSD shouldn’t have a room to ground themselves in?

THINK! ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS!

Conveniently, now, with all this anti-DEIA talk and the anti-woke crowd that started it, all employees of marginalized status are presumed unqualified. Is there any evidence that DEIA results in unqualified workers being hired in place of qualified ones? No, but Fox News is saying it, so it must be true!

All of a sudden, it is very popular again to publicly announce to the world that you don’t believe a worker is qualified because they are: not White, aren’t a woman, aren’t straight, aren’t gender conforming, aren’t able-bodied, aren’t neurotypical, and aren’t Christian.

All of a sudden, it is very popular again to publicly announce to the world that you assume all workers to be qualified so long as they are: White, men, straight, gender conforming, able-bodied, neurotypical, and Christian.

white supremacists one day decided to frame woke as a bad thing and use it as a perjorative and y’all just immediately went along with it posing absolutely no resistance now i gotta hear ppl say “it’s not woke to be antiracist”

[espanolbot2]

The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

[mariacallous]

40% y'all...

[socialjusticefail]

This article talks about how American history like mentions of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan is getting erased because of anti-DEI efforts.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

ACLU is already suing the Trump administration to fight the deportations as well as the repeal of the DEI laws. Here's a donate link if you would like to help

-fae

[gpsunday]

I know the timing is coincidental, but the fact that Toyota announced they're scaling back on DEI efforts, then a week later announce partnering with Haas to renter F1 as a technical partner.......like you have money for this but not for that?

[ellipsus-writes]

The words they're afraid of.

(Read on our blog.)

The recently appointed Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth (formerly Fox News pundit, perpetually soused creepy uncle, and current group chat leaker of classified intel) banned images of the Enola Gay from the Pentagon’s website for the offense of “DEI” language. In keeping with the far right’s stated war on anything vaguely resembling diversity, equity and inclusion, even historical photos are up for cancellation. When a literal weapon of mass destruction is censored for being a bit fruity under the Trump administration’s war against inconvenient truths, what exactly is left untouched?

This is clown show stuff, but the stakes are far from funny. While some might be hesitant to compare the current administration to the very worst history has to offer, we can at least all agree that they are dyed-in-the-wool grammar Nazis. Policing language has been the objective of the MAGA culture war long before Project 2025’s debut—the wave of book bans orchestrated by astroturf movements like Moms for Liberty, and Florida’s 2022 Don’t Say Gay bill have already had a profound effect in the arena of free speech and freedom of expression (despite the far right’s long tradition of doublespeak performative free-speech martyrdom to the contrary). Don’t Say Gay ostensibly targeted K-3 education, but LGBT+ content at all levels of education (and beyond) was either quietly censored or entirely preempted in practice. The results were not just a war on so-called ideology, or words alone—but on reality and essential freedoms.

Now, words as innocuous and important as racism, climate change, hate speech, prejudice, mental health, and inequality are targeted as subversive. Entire concepts are being vanished from government institutions, scrubbed not only from descriptions but from metadata, search indexes, and archival frameworks.

If you don’t name a thing, does it exist?

These words are as numerous as they are generic: women, race, Black, immigrants, multicultural, gender, injustice. But what is painfully unserious is also particularly dangerous in its real-world consequences. The process of controlling words is a well-worn authoritarian tendency. Fifty-two universities are now under investigation as part of the President's effort to curb “woke” research and thought crimes. Institutions are being coerced to comply with a nebulous set of ideological demands, or face budgetary annihilation. That means cutting funding for entire departments, slashing financial aid, defunding scientific grants, and pressuring faculty to self-censor.

The possibilities for censorship extend far and wide—interfering, by extension, in everything from reproductive healthcare programs, to libraries and museums. The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashing all federal funding for libraries, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will effectively gut an infrastructure that supports over 100,000 libraries and museums across the country—community centers, educational lifelines, internet access points, and archives of marginalized histories (starting with the Smithsonian Institution).

When you erase access, you erase participation. And when you erase participation, you erase people, and the means by which future generations might even learn they existed. A culture that cannot remember is a culture that cannot resist.

The erasure is, yet again, unsurprisingly targeted at minorities and LGBT+ people. The National Parks Service quietly revised the Stonewall Monument’s website to remove references to transgender people—a fundamental part of the original protests. Not an oversight, not a mistake, but a deliberate excision—one point in a wider plan of erasure depicted in stark detail in Project 2025, a blueprint to dismantle civil rights, defund LGBT+-related healthcare, and rewrite history from the ground up.

Dehumanization by deletion—welcome to the reactionary resurgence of doubleplusungood governance. In Trumpland, words are weapons—but not in the way they intend. Their fear of language betrays its power; that’s why they’re trying so hard to police it.

Words hurt them.

Hurt them back.

- the Ellipsus Team

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ryan Adamczeski at The Advocate:

After Target made the decision to drop diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Minnesota's largest Pride festival decided to drop them as a sponsor. Now, Twin Cities Pride has more funding than they started with. Target issued a memo on Friday announcing the end of its three-year DEI goals, including its Racial Equity Action and Change (REACH) program and "all external diversity-focused survey’s including HRC’s Corporate Equality index.” The Human Rights Campaign effort, which provides benchmarks on corporate policies relevant to LGBTQ+ employees, previously gave Target a score of 100 percent, dubbing the company a “Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion." In response, the largest Pride organization in Minnesota and the largest free Pride celebration in the United States, Twin Cities Pride, announced this week that it would be dropping Target as a sponsor for its 2025 events. The company had initially pledged $50,000, and had been involved in Pride celebrations for around two decades.

[...] Target was not backing down on its $50,000 pledge, but Otto says that TCP and their allies still saw the move as a betrayal, as the company is "taking away safety for the community not only in their employees, but in their suppliers." As the community was "looking to us to hold them accountable," TCP's board made the decision to remove Target as a sponsor. "This isn't about the money," Otto says. "Because if the money wasn't there, would we even be questioning this decision? The answer is no. The reality of it is, is that it's the right thing to do for our community." The end of DEI programs and LGBTQ+ inclusivity initiatives marks a significant shift for the Minnesota-based company, which once withstood protests from hate groups over its inclusive bathroom policies and Pride displays. However, the change was not sudden, as Target pulled some of its Pride Month merchandise in 2023 amid threats and violent protests in stores.

[...] Companies' willingness to abandon the LGBTQ+ community contributes to the long-standing debate among activists over "Rainbow Capitalism," which refers to the trend of companies marketing to or profiting off the queer community without meaningfully supporting them. Examples include Disney using a rainbow logo while cancelling or censoring LGBTQ+ projects, Netflix claiming to support LGBTQ+ people while hosting Dave Chapelle's harmful jokes about transgender people, or Target scaling back Pride displays after pressure from extremists despite decades of precedent.

With Target abandoning its once-stellar support for the LGBTQ+ community by dropping DEI, Twin Cities Pride not only ousted them from sponsorship but raised more money.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Pride organization rejects Target’s $50K donation after the store turns its back on DEI

[political-us]

An annual U.S. State Department report detailing human rights around the world will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government, Politico reports. The censored report has likely been drafted in response to the president’s executive orders banning all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the federal government.

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BANG!