• badmin@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    There is a manifesto that is literally titled the “The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto” which a lot of people unironically agreed with, at least when those were hot topics a few years ago.

    So any attempt at pretending that there isn’t an anti-meritocracy angle to this would be disingenuous to say the least.

    That same person behind the manifesto is a primary figure in introducing CoC’s to software projects btw.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      15 minutes ago

      So any attempt at pretending that there isn’t an anti-meritocracy angle to this would be disingenuous to say the least.

      DEI initiatives aren’t perfect, and like anything else you have individuals who may misapply or overzealously apply their principles, causing a different sort of problem.

      To deny that, or to pretend that such misapplication is the typical mainstream application of DEI principles, would be equally disingenuous.

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      6 hours ago

      I was going to say this sounds a lot like the conservative strawman that postmodernism means the total rejection of objective reality.

      Then I read the post-meritocracy manifesto and wow some of those “our values” bullet points are facepalm worthy.