don’t fall for that anti-dei malarky

Just thought I’d share what Di­ver­si­ty, Eq­ui­ty, and In­clu­sion (DEI) is re­al­ly all about. You can thank me later.

I’ve worked at hourly jobs, been a union rep, worked at uni­ver­si­ties and glob­al tech com­pa­nies and have ex­pe­ri­enced di­rect­ly why DEI pro­grams are needed. 

It’s be­cause there is a tra­di­tion­al cul­tur­al bias in this coun­try to hire, pro­mote and give a raise to the dumb-arse white guy over every oth­er per­son no mat­ter what.

     

The pur­pose of DEI is to get peo­ple think­ing about who, how, and why peo­ple are hired, pro­mot­ed and giv­en rais­es so it’s not al­ways just the dumb-arse white guy and the rest of us have to put with his dumb-ar­se­ness and work so much hard­er to over­come it.

Di­ver­si­ty means think­ing care­ful­ly and be­ing clear and ob­jec­tive about job re­quire­ments, ex­pe­ri­ence, ed­u­ca­tion, skills, po­ten­tial for ex­cel­lence, and tak­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion fac­tors usu­al­ly not con­sid­ered when the pri­or­i­ty is to hire dumb-arse white guys. 

Like ac­tu­al­ly hav­ing run a small fam­i­ly busi­ness may be bet­ter ex­pe­ri­ence for a man­ag­er than an un­der­grad de­gree in Busi­ness Administration.

Eq­ui­ty means peo­ple should be paid based on the work they do, not be­cause of a cul­tur­al tra­di­tion that the dumb-arse white guy should be paid more be­cause his man­li­ness de­serves it and women should be home mop­ping the floor. 

And it’s not about a man need­ing to sup­port his fam­i­ly, be­cause the man who dumps his fam­i­ly or does­n’t even have one still gets paid more for the same work than the woman who sup­ports hers.

In­clu­sion means the as­sump­tions about who is el­i­gi­ble and able to do a job is not al­ways the dumb-arse white guy who goes run­ning with the hir­ing man­ag­er every week­end, but the per­son in the wheel­chair, who is a genius. 

Stephen Hawk­ing would have agreed with this.

DEI pro­grams were cre­at­ed as an an­ti­dote to the cul­tur­al bias of dumb-arse white guy su­prema­cy that has been hold­ing us all back for generations. 

     

And these pro­grams have been work­ing. Which is why the dumb-arse white guys are howl­ing and fill­ing their di­a­pers be­cause they now need to ac­tu­al­ly com­pete and can’t just rely on dumb-arse white guy bias to get ahead. 

Are these pro­grams all per­fect? Of course not. In this case, fix the pro­grams that need it, don’t just shut down every DEI pro­gram in the country. 

For ex­am­ple, if a hos­pi­tal had a doc­tor com­mit­ting mal­prac­tice, we’d fire that doc­tor and fix the or­ga­ni­za­tion so it doesn’t hap­pen again. We would­n’t shut down every hos­pi­tal in the country. 

Only a dumb-arse would do that. 

You can thank me now.
 

—clay­ton moraga

Flom­mist Clay­ton Mor­a­ga wants to know there is more to this world than meets the eye, but she just keeps flirt­ing from his pe­riph­er­al vi­sion. Sweet smiles and laugh­ing eyes in parei­do­lia and teas­ing flash­es of syn­chronic­i­ty, hasti­ly cov­ered with chaste apophe­nia. Breathy sig­nal whis­pers from the white noise of aware­ness se­duce his silent con­scious­ness into an aroused at­ten­tion, chas­ing de­tached shad­ows that pause to beck­on coy­ly from be­hind the veil of Isis; a Möbius strip­per ready to take the stage with taunt­ing, half-re­vealed truths fir­ing an in­ten­si­ty of imag­i­na­tion that lunges at con­cepts that slip away and fade from ra­tio­nal­i­ty like the mem­o­ry of her fra­grance from a dream. Copy­right © 2025 Clay­ton Mor­a­ga. Im­ages: Segar.

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