People have promoted DEI corporate policies and initiatives into a matter of public concern due to their culture war battles.

No one asks the ROI of corporate social media or meeting room booking policies.
Organizations put in place DEI for multiple reasons. It makes sense for all sorts of HR, legal, and PR reasons.

But, controversially, it also makes sense because those who oppose them to the point of quitting, are people these companies would happily see replaced.
Companies have values that they promote through policies. Y'all don't really believe every Walmart greeter wants to smile at everyone, or every call center work wants to tell everyone to have a good day.

But, if you don't want to play along. You leave.
I get people often get upset at the authoritarianism of bosses and what not. Capitalism is a system where a company has rights to put its interests before your politics. The state at times will coerce them, but let's not expect the state will go very far.
I'd tell people to support unions, but unions are in large part responsible for many of the worker policies that led to DEI. Turns out DEI is also a worker protection system. Some people just don't like which workers are protected 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Still, racism can shock you sometimes, and that's not fun.
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The actions of others should not to be attributed to being caused by your genes. Paper on the heritability of being bullied
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We all have some of our own intuitions as to what we envision when we think of cause though.
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Fighting for the rights of white men to say the n-word without complaint.
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The content and the manner of the disagreement is important, as it is in every disagreement between any two humans.
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The content and the manner of the disagreement is important.
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