How Diversity Became a Dirty Word in Corporate America 

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Yes hiring by skin color is not racist at all

As an European watching This is clearly propaganda 😂

Bloomberg editors are so happy that youtube no longer displays likes.

Who's here ONLY for the comments?🍿

Hiring by diversity is how you get racism. Hiring by skill despite race is the way to go

It’s not just the right that’s sick of this 😂

It is ridiculous to think that when the population of black people is 13%, every company's management should be 13%. The same idea is that when there is 100 applicants for a job, 90 men and 10 women, they should hire 2 men and 2 women. No, it should not be like that, but rather the best applicants to be chosen.

DEI for virtue signaling and losers

I don't understand it. We once agreed that we want to treat all people equally and that skin color, religion and gender are irrelevant. The solution we have now chosen for equality is not to treat people equally, but to give them preference on the basis of skin color, religion and gender. That is madness.

It's not okay to discriminate against Whites and Asians in order to assuage historical guilt.

Ok, great statistic bias: You show chart of management where 75% of managers are white, and you point to imbalance in Black people being 6% while population consits of 13% black. Despite the white ratio actually being correct... and offset is caused mainly by asian people Why not point out that per 6% of asian population 13% of them are in managerial role too... i'n america that's 75% white? Ah right... that doesn't fit the narration.

Stop DEI

Meritocracy is the way to go! It has always been! Either you have knowledge and skills or you are a failure!

DEI for NBA or NFL, no one talks about that

DEI is fundamentally about discriminating by skin color, not by socioeconomic conditions during upbringing which is what the nation should be adjusting for. Measure what you care about, like zip code or median income of household during childhood, don't use skin color as a proxy for it.

When you seek equality over liberty, you end up with neither. -Milton Friedman

"Diversity is our strength"... when they say that I have NO idea what they are talking about or how that is actually a strength.

yeah. its a 'dirty' word in corporate america and not constantly promoted or anything.

For those who can't see dislikes, this video has 742 dislikes and only 228 likes. Says a lot lol

I support inclusion and equality. No one should be locked out of a political system or lose opportunity due to skin color in America. However, it is time to be honest here. I grew up in a city and certain ethnic groups worked hard even at very young ages to position themselves for career success and I mean some worked very hard. Other ethnic groups did not place the same value on education. The members of that second ethic group who chose to put in the work were rewarded with a career. Sometimes just analyzing lagging data places too much blame. There are a lot of factors for why numbers appear the way they do that extend beyond racism.

diversity is important but don't undermine the actual talented people

It is interesting how the campaign for diversity is only for people's own race. I think this is where the disconnect is for a lot of people.

If in some alternative universe, if your CV was not allowed to include your name (hence no ethnicity indicator), then I'd imagine the Asian population would have far more students accepted into ivy leagues and also in prominent managerial positions.

It should be implemented in the NBA too😆😄🤣

Your Clown Show is over and we couldn't be happier.

Merit>>>>>diversity

so no matter how hard i work or study, that is not enough? I must be the right colour as well?

Here just for the comments and to know what opinions the followers of Bloomberg Originals have. Clearly DEI is not in favor.

Preferring someone because of a race quota is just ridiculous in non woke countries. What happens if a company doesn't obey the quota? Do they get fined? Or looted by some social justice vigilantes?

Banks, employers, financial institutions, etc. should not reject - nor accept - applicants on the grounds of their demographics. Everybody seems to agree on that general principle, but each faction wants it applied only when it benefits them. That's the problem.

If corporate America was bigoted, guys like Sundar Pichai or Satya Nadella or women like Indra Nooyi or Carly Fiorina would never have led those massive corporations. Dont undermine Meritocracy.

artificially fitting employees to match a census instead of hiring based on merit is otherwise racism, this is no different than race-based quotas. Current system already favors minorities- it favors asians who are overrepresented in the professional fields... but because it's not the "right kind of minority". But asians who obtain executive positions succeed based on thier enterprise and skills. In fact, the success of asian-americans sharply disproves the idea that there is some kind of "collusion" to maintain "white supremacy" when a minority group is able to succeed so strongly. Stick to race-blind hiring and it will be fair.

The shoe at the other foot is one of the best ways to move forward to be honest!! Thank you Bloomberg for making this video

Marc Cubans top paid personal are majority black, and the roster of the mavericks does not look like the countries average

it's not workplace diversity. it is work place segregation. it is no surprise the people who thought social racial segregation was ok also thinks that work place diversity is bad also. work place diversity is workplace integration. these people are openly fighting to maintain segregation in the work place in 2024.

if you speak against these policies, you get a letter from HR, no wonder 80% people like it.

Since when talented people care with dei? Their talent alone makes them indispensable, what you see are a bunch of people with inflated egos scared their easy job to be taken away

Coming soon: NARWA - National Association for the Advancement of White Peoples

White women benefit the most from affirmative action just had to mention that because people tend to forget that!

Wall Street: We aren't going to hire you based on race Also Wall Street: Why are the people we discriminated against upset?

In South Africa and Namibia , where they had apartheid, it is called Black Economic Empowerment(B.E.E). It shows that you can’t tip the scales of advantage with policy, the only way is to organically create equal opportunities, and that takes time. In the long run more “people of color” (ghastly term for “the rest of the people”) can build wealth too.

All they see is skin color... They mention meritocracy, say that some people/companies are worried about meritocracy not being the main criteria... and then they go to other topics, without discussing WHY diversity hires are NOT meritocracy and WHY meritocracy should (not?) be the main basis for hiring. They end with the prediction that in a few decades, the majority of Americans will be people of color. Yes. So? The most competent Americans will be hired for the jobs, regardless of their skin color. Why hire less competent people today, colored or white?

DEI = Discrimination disguised as fixing discrimination. Hiring the best person for the job based on performance metrics = the least discriminatory method.

Compagnies don't care about your color, it's all about how much money you can bring them.

It's a euphemism for race-based hiring. It's also presented to employees in a way that clearly threatens them for identifying the token hires.

If you can do the work well, you should be hired to do the work. Whether your skin is dark or light doesn't enter into it at all. Or shouldn't.

Why nobody calling for the diversification of professional basketball or track & field ?

Why is Diversity a Dirty word? Because DEI - as it has been implemented in many businesses - has done nothing but force managers to hire and promote, not the best overall candidate for a role, but the best from some filtered list. Prime example: 0:35 - explaining this as anything but racism is impossible. Its pretty sad (and ironic?) that DEI has been separated out rather than being an inherent concept in US business culture. Not sure how to fix the issues we have, but the way DEI has been implemented is the problem, not DEI itself.

@5:19 you need to step up your arguments strength. Just saying “ clearly we don’t have a meritocracy ” is not evidence that we don’t have a meritocracy. You really need to strengthen that argument.

Organized DEI seems to br racist.

Trying to end racial sorting through a policy of racial sorting. Yeah, why would anyone object to that?

Diversity is not the dirty word It's the mandating of it.

While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams,” Reagan said. “Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation.”

Diversity video , que Hip Hop beats. Lol

4:55 why do either of the graphs dont add up to 100?

Could be root cause be IQ?

What ever happened to hiring on the merit of education, skill, and work experience?

since ''diversity hire'' became synonymous with incompetence

DOWN WITH D.E.I👎🏿

*Breaks laws* "Being harassed by litigation is what oppression looks like!"

"The stats in the area of funding for black women and women of color are alarming. Women of color combined, black and brown, receive 0.39% of venture capital funds." "That is disturbing when women of color make up 20% of the population." I'm not a math genius, but 20% of the population does not mean that all said 20% of the population is in business, or has a business plan that requires VC funding, or gets to present it to a venture capital firm, or gets approved, or requires a number that makes a bigger dent on all total VC funding. It's simply not how the math works. One cannot just expect VC firms to chase people who never applied for VC funding and give them VC funds, without their need fitting criteria, just because they are exactly 20% of the population. To affect a change in these numbers, it will help to start training black and brown women who are in business (perhaps a small portion of that 20%) to learn how to seek said funding and get approved for it. Am I wrong?

is it an attack on a culture that has strong family values?

The way I see it, wealth and prosperity is like a race. Early in the race, white people in America effectively broke the leg of people of color. Midway through the race, the white runner realized that breaking the colored runner’s leg at the start was bad, so now the white runner considers the colored runner their equal with equal rights and opportunities. The issue with the white runner’s way of thinking is that the colored runner still has a broken leg. The two runners are not equal. The colored runner’s leg must be healed to truly make the race equal. However, the white runner believes that is unfair since they themselves are not getting their perfectly fine leg healed… Go figure

"Why the business of blackmailing companies into paying for scam consulting gigs became a dirty word." Bloomburg is so helplessly out of touch from its readership it is astonishing.

I like the mental gymnastics from minorities to under represented minorities. Since some minorities are high achieving.

DEI and ESG are collectivist / socialist ideas. Instead of lowering the bar for some, we should ensure they have the skills to compete. Meritocracy improves economies!

You are not convincing us of what you are trying to sell

It's weird as a European watching this. Both the right and the left of the US is so obsessed with skin color it's freaky AF!

How are 13% of Board of Directors supposed to be Black when only 3% of Regional Managers are Black? The talent pool is limited meaning you have to pick less qualified candidates to meet the quota. Its not a company’s fault that Black people are underrepresented its a society issue.

Diversity became a dirty word since people started using the word inflationary and for every single discussion or conflict. At the same time i want to adress that diversity implies some level of separation which at least from my values offends the american constitution. Another point is we need to guarantee equal rights and freedom for all citizens and furthermore humans in general. But please dont make a fuss out of every single bullsh*** just because of some academic policy discussions while the reality of alot of people is completely different to the privileged college life.

Meritocracy is important and certain quotas may not be the effective to get the most talented people from a society in the academic or work places they need to be BUT is funny how people in the US uses meritocracy as an excuse to attack policies that avoid segregation and exclusion in a country that was one of the 5 states in the whole world with a barbaric active apartheid in the last 100 years (The others were Germany with moustache man, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe). Those policies are still affecting people today and would probably will in the next generation…

as an asian its hard to agree with DEIS that perpetuate a stigma that barr asian americans from entering workforce/ education based on meritocracy to incorporate other minorities; however, it is also hard to say that meritocracy is what drives the american hiring process. Most, if not all jobs that are high level are all referral based. This is hard for african americans and others to get these jobs as they werent allow to get that head start in the first place unlike their white counterparts. This is also true for asians but at a lesser level - the 13% of asians being managerial despite being only 6% of general population perpetuates this referral based rather than meritocracy based.

For those unaware this video has 4.2k dislikes. Probably because it is trying to portray DEI as better than merit hiring. The better discussion is to ask why consider ethicity at all unless say you run a business that works with France and hence need someone who speaks French or some similar scenario.

US is hardly ready for anything other than WASP. This is a nice hypothesis to test that’s one reason USA is losing persuasion in foreign affairs or that P is a liability for the country…

DEI vs. DIY

this is propaganda

The elephant in the room that shoots DEI in the foot is Asian over representation.

Diversity on itself is dirty. The fact that we have to focus on it is totally wrong. The focus is now not on what people want but to just impose it on people. Thats wat "woke" does. For example: Women in general are more caring then men and men are mostly more materialistic. When a couple (man and woman) get a child. Instictively the couple chooses that the woman takes care while the man works. The woman mostly consents to this. A job as top manager/CEO requires a full track record, a tough skin and a lot of time. Stuff that mostly men are interested in. Most women who want to go for those jobs are women who show masculine traits and not the feminine traits. This is because those jobs are just not alligned to feminine traits. Just like working in construction where 98% is men. In construction the traits are visibly shown where as in top manager jobs they are not shown. The goal of reaching 50% men and women in the top manager job is not representing the needs and wants from men and women. You cant assume that women want to be in those positions just as men want it. Thats just naive. Also, why focus on the differences between gender/ethnicity? Focussing on the differences is like a wedge between groups. Its sets people against eachother. The focus should be on educating people on integrity, general respect no matter who is in front of you. Thats what matters! Not "black lives matter", not "feminism matter". Only EVERYONE matters.

It’s called competition anxiety 😊 threatened by diversity because the competition is hot. They would love if we stay in the labour market. Sharing the salary of one COO Amongst 14 positions. People start your own business then the competition will really be hot for these companies.

As an Asian watching This is clearly propaganda

there were alot of interesting point and claims but, there was nothing said to back them up i.e. if everyone in the room looks alike, then the rolerdex is going to look alike; "alot of critizims about DEI come from peoplem who say why can't we just have a meritocarcy, ignoring the fact we don't". those are alot of superficial unsubstainated opinions

Não existe e nunca vai existir sociedade perfeita, tenta criar empatia é ridículo... o mundo é mal e caótico!

End Racism = End DEI

So far there are: *590 likes* and *2.6K dislikes.*

Cool video but oh boy the background music is loud

Why isn’t Israel diverse ?

2023 US general population 75.5%+19%+13.6%+6.3%=114.4% Am I doing math correctly? If so than how management roles in 2021 was 74%+14%+6%+5%+2%=101% How could mathematics change so much in the span of two years?

Thank goodness sanity has come back to the conversation. Covid had everyone's brains frazzled

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WOKE Bloomberg

for those who can't see the dislike ratio, at 18th march is 500 likes to 2100 dislikes

Tenta caga regras em nome de uma ideia é um completo absurdo!

Because Haiti is such a lovely place

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TLDR: Diverstity = 🙋🏿‍♂🙋🏿‍♀🙃😂

You get just wht you hired like Greyhound bus lines its never made a profit because of its Workforce🙈

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More diversity for israel!

Companies is a business of making profit therefore need to hire the best talents. Not to hire because of dei that is basically scam.