> Have you run a Credit Union?
No, but I've been part of co-ops and other community run groups for decades.
> Credit Unions, the ones who wrote the principles, don’t have anything to do with eating vegetables
Right, and they also don't have anything to do with race quotas. Or religion quotas or climate change or justice for the Armenian genocide.
> They believe DEI to be topical for their business.
The employees are certainly free to feel that these are the main issues in the world and to direct their charity work towards them but the organization itself should remain focused on the reasons the co-op was founded.
> you dismiss their opinion on their business practices, while embracing one person’s view of affirmative action as the definitive statement on DEI
Right. I've been there in the business practices but I've never been a type-A black man trying to succeed against all odds in a racist nation.
> Re-read your quote, those weren’t Justice Thomas’s words.
I do think his actual quotes support the authors view but you're right.
> DEI is not only about black people. Affirmative Action is not the same as DEI.
Affirmative Action is a tactic, DEI is a framework that encompasses it and many other things.
No, but I've been part of co-ops and other community run groups for decades.
> Credit Unions, the ones who wrote the principles, don’t have anything to do with eating vegetables
Right, and they also don't have anything to do with race quotas. Or religion quotas or climate change or justice for the Armenian genocide.
> They believe DEI to be topical for their business.
The employees are certainly free to feel that these are the main issues in the world and to direct their charity work towards them but the organization itself should remain focused on the reasons the co-op was founded.
> you dismiss their opinion on their business practices, while embracing one person’s view of affirmative action as the definitive statement on DEI
Right. I've been there in the business practices but I've never been a type-A black man trying to succeed against all odds in a racist nation.
> Re-read your quote, those weren’t Justice Thomas’s words.
I do think his actual quotes support the authors view but you're right.
> DEI is not only about black people. Affirmative Action is not the same as DEI.
Affirmative Action is a tactic, DEI is a framework that encompasses it and many other things.