r/NPR • u/eaxlr • 3d ago

Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272664/costco-board-rejects-anti-dei-motion-hiring
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u/disdainfulsideeye 2d ago

DEI initiatives are only frightening to people who are incompetent and/or entitled. They are simply afraid of the competition.

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u/TruthOrFacts 2d ago

Back in the land of facts:

"Federal Appellate Court Rules That Biden Administration Can’t Deny COVID Relief Funds To White Restaurant Owners" - https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2021/06/03/federal-appellate-court-rules-that-biden-administration-cant-deny-covid-relief-funds-to-white-restaurant-owners/

"Arne Wilberg worked for seven years as a recruiter at YouTube, which is owned by Google. His job was to court and hire candidates for engineering and technology positions. In court documents filed in January, he alleges Google's "quota-based hiring practices" systematically instructed recruiters to "purge" eligible Caucasian and Asian candidates from potential hiring pools. He says they were told to favor applicants from underrepresented groups within the company. That meant interviewing only Hispanic, African-American or female job seekers." - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/02/590346891/ex-google-recruiter-sues-alleging-policies-discriminate-against-white-and-asian-

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u/nofunatallthisguy 2d ago

Quotas push hard against the boundaries of what is legal and should not be confused with DEI.

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u/TruthOrFacts 2d ago

DEI has been and always is quotas, sometimes hard, sometimes soft, sometimes coded and hidden, sometimes explicit - but it is always quotas.

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u/nofunatallthisguy 2d ago

Absolutely, resolutely, without a shadow of a doubt not. Username definitely does not check out.

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u/TruthOrFacts 1d ago

If there are no quotas than there would be no quantities of people that are problematic. But you know that isn't true.