# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1979
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/1979 "2024-04-03T16:29:17Z")
How to pack a ton of misogyny and bigotry in a few lines: > [@Ought public libraries advance social agendas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-public-libraries-advance-social-agendas/999737/76): > > > [@Ought public libraries advance social agendas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-public-libraries-advance-social-agendas/999737/75): > > > > Again, so are all women and people with disabilities leftists? > > Completely irrelevant. What we are talking about is _discriminating against certain groups in order to achieve equal outcomes_. That is what the E part of DEI is for. Obviously not all women or minority groups support this even if they think there is inequity present. What were you thinking? (Well, at least he was not thinking that women and minorities could be raised and _slaughtered_) \*\* Nope, it was not irrelevant, misleading info about DEI coming from right wing sources is what is guiding a lot of people, that is for sure. The question here is if it is just the misleading info coming from the extreme right or if it is the moderates (?) like Dr. Strangelove who are just giving up and are getting used to swallow what the extreme right is telling them to think about issues that in reality have less to do with right or left ideologies. This DEI thing is a lot like the CRT boogeyman, when others made very ignorant posts about CRT, I pointed about how CRT was used by Asian, African American or Jewish researchers to publish papers using the CRT framework. they pointed at the bigotry and ethnic cleansing among _less_ diverse populations in China or Africa. Making a mockery of the point from the right that CRT was made to make whites feel bad for no reason. Some reprehensible posters did see the evidence I posted and just declared that they were exceptions… Sure… everything to justify the misleading right-wing narrative about CRT. Similarity, DEI is not only geared to help reduce the non-imaginary systemic racism in the workplace or other institutions, but it also includes ways to deal with the discrimination of women and disabled people in the same. Trying to minimize that is really just an effort to defend a very misleading narrative from the right. . . \*\* Reference to the Dr. Strangelove movie. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532)._