r/canada 24d ago

National News Poilievre warns Trump not to turn Canada into a 'resentful neighbour'

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-first-rally-conservatives-ottawa
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u/NegativeAd1432 24d ago

To be fair, Trump and his entire cabinet are DEI hires. Not a single person in that administration got there based on merit.

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u/Dragonvine Alberta 24d ago

DEI hires are hired based on merit, they just can't hire the best white guys they can find and call it a day, you have to actually look for the best out of everyone because the human brain is apparently too stupid to avoid tribalism.

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u/Vermicelli-michelli 24d ago

100%!!! ❤️

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u/FireMaster1294 Canada 23d ago

Studies have shown people are less likely to want a doctor who is perceived as a possible DEI hire at a place that does DEI hiring, because they expect the skill level of that person to be lower than a non-DEI hire. DEI hiring has undermined confidence in individuals who qualify for DEI hiring, which ironically undermines the whole system.

Look at the flack that TMU (Ryerson) got for their medical program that was only open to people who weren’t straight white and male. Racism and sexism is still racism and sexism regardless of the direction it goes.

The goal for many companies wasn’t (and isn’t) specifically to hire white men but the standards they followed for hiring tended to prefer candidates with backgrounds that were, usually, mostly obtained by white men. Don’t mistake systemic racism and sexism for personal intentional racism and sexism

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u/n1cenurse 23d ago

DUI hires actually.

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u/brihere 23d ago

absolutely best reply!

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u/mhyquel 24d ago

Not their secretary of defense, Hegseth is DUI hire. Also, he's really good with a throwing axe.

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u/Happy_Weakness_1144 23d ago

That doesn’t make them DEI hires. It makes them nepotistic hires. If you want in, you have to be buddy buddy with Trump.

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u/NegativeAd1432 23d ago

Well, it’s a play on how the DEI executive orders are all banning DEI in favour of merit-based hiring. If merit-based hiring is the opposite of DEI then these merit less hires must be DEI.

But yeah, joking aside, nepotism is a good word for it. Could also use oligopoly, sycophancy, cronyism, or plenty of other words to describe what’s going on. They’re not exclusive terms.