Man, wtf kind of DEI training are you doing??
The dumbest kind imaginable. I'm talking typos, bad grammar, and of course stupidity. It's embarrassing.
I do agree with your point that it’s annoying how the training doesn’t vary year to year. That’s fair.
I get being a new hire at a new place, you've got to jump through hoops. No problem with that. But to have to jump through the same exact hoops every year, year after year, as a condition of employment? Performance evaluations are one thing, but you don't have new annual job interviews over and over once you've got the job. That'd be stupid. I wasn't a sexual harasser the first time around. It's not like forgetting who delivered the Gettysburg Address. You don't one day forget that you can't honk your coworkers' boobs in the break room, and you won't one day forget it because you're three years behind on your training videos. It's just silly across the board. Again, I think of Bill Burr:
How many DEI videos made you feel so authoritarian as to agree with Hitler? I’m going to guess zero, same as me, because we aren’t fucking insane.
Of course not. In fairness, though, the study specified "adapted Adolf Hitler quotes" and "rhetoric," which I take to mean meme-type quotes that aren't being attributed to Hitler (like "All effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand" or "Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice") rather than people closing out of training video windows and opening up Amazon to buy
Mein Kampf like robots who've just glitched and become evil Nazis out of pure DEI hatred
The fact that some videos on things like racism in the workplace or unconscious bias make right wingers so hostile towards minorities that they’ll even agree with Hitler’s rhetoric, is not a damning indictment of DEI, it’s a damning indictment of the Right—and their attitudes towards minorities.
Note the words in the study, though: "DEI Training Material Increases Perception of Nonexistent Prejudice." What this means is that in the course of trying to bring awareness to issues like racism and sexual harassment, the actual effect of this crap is to make people believe that racism and sexual harassment aren't problems...and that's not a giant leap since the dumb shit in the videos obviously doesn't exist, so the "evidence" for the conclusion is being provided by the moron do-gooders who are doing more harm than good. The videos are so bad that people rightly think to themselves, "Oh, come on, this isn't real." Racism is real. Sexual harassment is real. The DEI videos aren't. There's no connection to reality, and so people think that the issues aren't real. That's a sad indictment of the incompetence and ineffectiveness of DEI, which everyone knows is just ass-covering BS anyway and is in no way profound or life-changing.
We're more than half a century beyond this...
...yet the DEI shit presupposes that we're actually closer to this...
