I’ve seen this too much in the media and other places, and I am kinda sick of seeing people get unfairly criticized or sidelined.
I’ve seen this too much in the media and other places, and I am kinda sick of seeing people get unfairly criticized or sidelined.
In a vacuum, I wouldn’t consider “diversity hire” to be a slur. However, in colloquial use by racists and bigots, it is definitely used as such much in the same way they have appropriated “DEI” as a slur.
To clarify, I mean the terms themselves used in the proper context. Calling someone a diversity hire, DEI hire, affirmative action hire, etc is 100% appropriating those terms as slurs because it calls into question the target’s qualifications by insinuating they were only hired to tick a box.
We totally do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action also comes to mind.