Kirsche dissects Upper Echelon's DEI video in autistic detail
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This is two hours of my life I'm not getting back.
Kirsche goes into primary sources on BRIDGE here as she watches Upper Echelon (once again) draw incorrect conclusions about DEI ending due to the departments being dissolved.
Those departments were cancer. And them being removed is because Ideological Metastasis has happened.
Infested companies don't need to spend the money on a specialized organ once the cancer is everywhere. Kirsche plays internal videos documenting the pivot away from Equity in the branding, pointing out that BRIDGE is all about dissolving the DEI departments and making their goals organizational imperatives rather than the focus of a single department. A lot of the time, this means hiring consultants to ensure the DEI is omnipresent, rather than having a department which can become a target of lawfare.
Upper Echelon concludes his video by saying DEI is on the decline... whereas Kirsche cites their own internal videos saying that "the work will continue" under a different name. I know which one I trust: the words of the ideologues as spoken to their faithful, as relayed by Kirsche-- not Upper Echelon.
Thank you for the summery. Seriously. I was thinking about watching it, saw the video length, and was going to bite the bullet regardless - but this saves me the trouble.
I would actually suggest visiting the video even if you don't watch it since there's a list of primary sources in the description, a goodly number of which are archived:
https://archive.ph/8JAln -- WSJ (On the 2016 McKinsey study not meaning diversity pays out with increased profits)
https://archive.ph/8JAln -- Business Insider (Microsoft DEI firings; reiteration of commitment to diversity)
https://archive.ph/GPbiM -- Bloomberg (Zoom DEI department layoffs; reiteration of commitment to Diversity.)
https://archive.ph/HcfQR -- WaPo (Zoom and Snap cut DEI roles; "At Zoom, chief operating officer Aparna Bawa told employees that the company would replace its internal DEI team with DEI consultants who would “champion inclusion by embedding our values … directly into our people programs rather than as a separate initiative,” according to a Jan. 29 memo seen by The Post.")
The common thread here is that all of the departments are being dismantled, but the initiatives are being continued-- either organizationally or under different names. "We disbanded our DEI department" doesn't mean they're abandoning the ideology. The rock has been lifted and the bugs are seeking new cover. That is all.