Oh we are ashamed.
But this is not ignorance or stupidity, but cult effervescence demonstrated as a phenomenon of social bias.
Think of it as an advertising technique or technology, one that not everyone is susceptible to by enough people are. My dad is (was) a literal rocket scientist for NASA and now a whole hearted MAGA disciple.
We’ll need to counter it or figure out the negative consequences of using it but until then — heck even MLMs are just business cults — they’ll stay in use to subvert society until it collapses.
The US is one very large example, but these methods are used globally by people with influence who fear losing their power to movements of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
aka DEI
aka Wokeness
aka the fundamental principles of communism and anarchism. This is an old fight.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The whole “non DEI” / “DEI hostile” stance seems so weird. I get that the basis is “you should not hire someone because of their origin/look/orientation/whatever”, and, maybe, why not. I hire people based on qualifications usually. How did it turn into “you should fire these people”.
…that’s a rhetorical question. I know that that first part was just a pretense, but still, how much of a morons must people be to follow that.