(Platformer) Days after surrendering to the right on speech issues and issuing new guidelines allowing for dehumanizing speech about trans people and racial minorities, Meta said on Friday that it will end its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
“The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” Janelle Gale, the company’s vice president of human resources wrote in an internal memo obtained by Platformer. “The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI. It reaffirms longstanding principles that discrimination should not be tolerated or promoted on the basis of inherent characteristics. The term ‘DEI’ has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.”
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