Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/vYNPq
Critics warn that one risk of ending diversity policies in favour of a meritocracy is that biases can resurface. They argue DEI initiatives mitigate affinity biases — when people are drawn to those who remind them of themselves — and thus ensure decisions are genuinely meritocratic.
DEI itself is a bias so FT is arguing forced bias to avoid potential inadvertent bias. That’s ludicrous.
'Resurface' is the key word here! I don't know why but media is trying to blame Trump with whatever words they can.
Replacing possible subtle implicit bias with definite crude explicit bias is not a reduction in overall bias.
We can talk about which one will have less bias? But bias is people's god damn thing, they just can't live without it. 😉
The unintentional bias will be less. There may be other ways to reduce it, but not this DEI stuff.