Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.
Can someone explain DEI and Affirmative action? 99% sure the right is using it wrong, but I live in a red state.
When the right uses it, it means one thing, when the left uses it, it means a different thing. Just like “woke”.
DEI is corporate speak for an office or initiative to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in a workplace. Diversity meaning not everybody there looks, talks, and thinks the same. Equity means that rules, compensation, etc., are fair for everyone, and inclusion means that people have a voice in decisions that affect them. Since historically, marginalized people have been black, female, indigenous, etc, DEI works specifically to correct unfairness towards them.
Since DEI is owned by corporate, there is only so much it can do to further these goals, and sometimes actively works to stall or placate people that have grievances with their workplace.
Affirmative Action is very similar, but usually specific to college admissions, compared to hiring workers.
I’m not an expert on DEI or Affirmative Action so if you want to know more about it try reading here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-dei-practice-trump-is-trying-dismantle-2025-01-30/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
Best of luck!
DEI is a catch-all term. It could be part of a marketing strategy, or it could be part of company culture. It’s generally bullshit virtue signalling in the case of retailers like Target. It’s good to have feedback and ideas from different cultures especially in a global marketplace. It includes both people of different races and culture like LGBTQ.
Affirmative action was policies of hiring a certain percentage of poc or women and ignoring white candidates with higher qualifications. It was an attempt to make up for systemic oppression. Places like colleges still try to balance student numbers by race, even limiting races like Asians because they would be over represented.