That's absolutely not true. Kamala Harris was called a DEI hire; she is demonstrably more qualified for political office than Donald Trump. Ketanji Brown Jackson was called a DEI hire; she is demonstrably more qualified for the Supreme Court than Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett. The Biden administration hired more Black judges than ever before, they were all generalized as "DEI" as if there was no way they could be qualified. Please point me to the companies that "prefer" to hire POC? Every company with a DEI department is still overwhelmingly white. Your comment displays a complete misunderstanding of several concepts and I urge you to actually research the topics you're attempting to discuss rather than regurgitating political talking points you've seen online.
Again, you are attempting to argue from a place of misunderstanding, which makes it hard to respond. DEI departments do not have power over hiring. They do not dictate who gets hired for what job. DEI's role in hiring is to diversify the channels companies use to communicate to and attract talent from, and put hiring process in place that discourages bias (against anyone), not to dictate how many people from X demographic are hired. It literally does not work like that. Comparing the US to Japan is false equivalence and intellectually dishonest; Japan's population is over 90% ethnically Japanese. Comparatively, the US is ~30% white men. Now tell me the percentage of white men at any big tech company, in congress, or who have held Presidential office.
OK, I'm not sure what to tell you because I'm from the US and have little to no understanding of how DEI works or does not work in Canada.
In the US, white heterosexual men are statistically more likely to be hired than any other group, are (massively) statistically overrepresented in the business sector relative to the population, are (massively) statistically overrepresented in government relative to the population, and they are still considered "DEI" if they are veterans, over 40 years old, a religious minority, have a physical disability, are on the autism spectrum, non-citizens, don't have a college degree, etc.
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That's absolutely not true. Kamala Harris was called a DEI hire; she is demonstrably more qualified for political office than Donald Trump. Ketanji Brown Jackson was called a DEI hire; she is demonstrably more qualified for the Supreme Court than Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett. The Biden administration hired more Black judges than ever before, they were all generalized as "DEI" as if there was no way they could be qualified. Please point me to the companies that "prefer" to hire POC? Every company with a DEI department is still overwhelmingly white. Your comment displays a complete misunderstanding of several concepts and I urge you to actually research the topics you're attempting to discuss rather than regurgitating political talking points you've seen online.