>DEI was so good and righteous idea that it shifted most of the western world to the right more than dozens of islamist terrorist attacks in previous decades.
If by "shifting right" you mean people in the US voted for Trump because of DEI, the numbers don't really add up. Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes in 2020. Trump beat Harris by half that number in 2024. More than that, the Republicans ran the same anti-woke campaign in 2022 and yet the Dems still gained senate and governor seats then. It's not like DEI was any better in 2022 for that narrative to make sense.
There was no major cultural shift. Trump won because of the economy not DEI. Hell, I would wager half the democrats who worked in STEM fields thought DEI was counterproductive from the beginning and they still didn't vote for Trump because of it (e.g., pg). It's been debated around here since the days of that google engineer getting fired for his anti non-merit hiring criteria memo and long before that.
In AOC's district, the same people voted for AOC and Trump. People said "fuck this, I gotta put bread on the table. something's gotta change."
If by "shifting right" you mean people in the US voted for Trump because of DEI, the numbers don't really add up. Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes in 2020. Trump beat Harris by half that number in 2024. More than that, the Republicans ran the same anti-woke campaign in 2022 and yet the Dems still gained senate and governor seats then. It's not like DEI was any better in 2022 for that narrative to make sense.
There was no major cultural shift. Trump won because of the economy not DEI. Hell, I would wager half the democrats who worked in STEM fields thought DEI was counterproductive from the beginning and they still didn't vote for Trump because of it (e.g., pg). It's been debated around here since the days of that google engineer getting fired for his anti non-merit hiring criteria memo and long before that.
In AOC's district, the same people voted for AOC and Trump. People said "fuck this, I gotta put bread on the table. something's gotta change."