Privileging favored identity groups to redress past wrongs is a half-century old policy that finally reached its high-water mark. As the wokeness tsunami that inundated corporate HR departments with DEI professionals recedes, a massive rebranding is underway trying to salvage remaining sinecures for deadwood apparatchiks.
Allyship is the operative buzzword, and MIT Sloan School leads the way in its promotion.
While mob-based cancel culture has lost its cache, micro cancel culture wielded against perceived microaggressions is the new guerrilla DEI. It’s also the easiest way to make performative displays of virtue.
Do you have a fellow employee who uses xe/xem pronouns that others refuse to respect? Speak out and shame the transgressors, especially if you are powerful girl-boss that others dare not cross.
Does some mentally disturbed guy in your office who wears dresses to work insist on using the ladies room? Make sure to denigrate any unenlightened women who dare complain.
Most importantly, don’t let sacred BIPOC employees whose grandparents were discriminated against have to deal with criticism from any quarter for any reason. Expecting individuals from favored identity groups to stand up for themselves in the normal press of corporate politics without the help of woke allies is asking way too much considering the oppression indelibly embedded in their DNA.
So do not despair if your company DEI office is shut down. The fight for social justice must continue through the work of comrades and allies on the right side of history until equity is achieved for all.