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Could merit, competence, and fairness
replace DEI?

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Posted By: Msquared112, 1/8/2025 5:31:44 AM

Now that DEI is on its way out (with some major holdouts like Costco and Disney), something intelligent should replace it. With our culture's fondness for acronyms, we need a new one such as MCF. It's not enough to say just "Let's go back to the way it was" because too many people don't remember or never knew how it is supposed to be. We need hiring and promotion based solely on Merit, Competence, and Fairness.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 1/8/2025 5:50:24 AM (No. 1868972)
You mean like it was pre-Obama and pre-George Floyd?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: planetgeo 1/8/2025 7:29:28 AM (No. 1869051)
Personally, I suggest "FCM" (Fairness, Competence, and Merit), not only because that's the natural sequence in the progression but also because I can't wait to have everyone say "fucem" starting January 20. I hereby trademark this new acronym, FCM.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 1/8/2025 7:58:27 AM (No. 1869081)
The pendulum swung too far to DEI. In fact Affirmative Action jobs are needed to keep black workers working. We have to be sure it doesn't swing back to the point where blacks are kept out of jobs. I have seen standards lowered, tests rewritten so that blacks can pass them ,promotions made because of race or gender. I have seen it, it exists,. A certain amount of it is necessary . I hate to say it , but it's true. Without Affirmative Action not many blacks will make the cut, and that will bring on more racial problems. If AA is not needed, why has it lasted so long. It was supposed to be a stop-gap way to get by until blacks caught up. They have never caught up and never will.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 1/8/2025 9:28:22 AM (No. 1869150)
Merit, competence and fairness used to be the special sauce that the USA had over the rest of the world, where nepotism, classism and racism were the norm for centuries.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: OhioNick 1/8/2025 2:45:12 PM (No. 1869354)
It's a shame that Costco is on a suicide mission. Like millions of conservatives, I have decided not to renew my membership.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Kafka2 1/9/2025 3:07:23 PM (No. 1870143)
MCF is the ideal way to advance people, but it is seldom achieved. Too often advancement is based on who you know. Also unions protect the incompetent and lazy to the detriment of the industrious. And, some of those doing the judging are not good judges. DEI and the earlier EEO were sold as a way to make things fair,but instead created quotas that were unfair.
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