So, to get this straight: you acknowledge that organisations haven't made nearly enough progress on diversity, equity or inclusion (which i agree with), and due to this you.... object to organisations having internal policies on diversity, equity and inclusion?
No, you don't have that straight. Corporations don't have internal policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Corporations have policies to create an illusion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to create an appearance of doing something without having actually done anything.
Take for example Nike. Nike practically can't go a day without touting some DEI-based hogwash. They're still not letting anyone up the corporate ladder who will substantively change, alter, or even challenge the status quo, regardless of ethnicity or gender, and they sure as hell haven't stopped operating sweatshops or greenwashing -- as I'm sure you'll agree, ecological sustainability and environmental justice are heavily interlinked with racial and economic justice. They're using DEI for advertising, nothing less and certainly nothing more.
Nestle, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola? No matter how many women/BIPOC executives they bring in to parrot the party line and no matter how many rainbow cans and labels they print, at the end of the day they're still bringing in women/BIPOC to parrot the party line and nothing more, and they're still stealing water from economically- and environmentally-endangered areas (usually populated by BIPOC) for packaging and resale. Again it's advertising, nothing less and nothing more.
Amazon? The story you're not hearing right now is they're mass recruiting from refugee camps and centers globally, to import and work in warehouses. Then, they're leaving them in the lurch once they're here to create a semi-captive labor force. Not only is it scab labor, it's one step removed from indentured servitude and human trafficking only legal because "they're here of their own volition, and can choose to quit and leave any time". They won't even be arsed to hire interpreters to work onsite.
Don't get me started how women/BIPOC salaried employees are
actually treated at Amazon.
...is the job of the government, not universities and corporations...But the government certainly does impose standards on organisations..."red tape" is not so much down to government regulation, it's to meet the demands of the insurance industry and reduce the risk of getting sued (the mere cost of being sued, never mind losing, being enough to dictate certain actions).
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In this sense, I think it's a lot more complex than a lazy swipe at "late stage capitalism"...it's not like non-capitalist nations have always been famed for their light-touch bureaucracy.
Let me get this straight. You accuse me of making "a lazy swipe at late-stage capitalism"...in the very same post you do a lot of grousing about TORTS. Stop and think about what you just posted. Like, really think about it; think really hard on whether there just might be connective tissue between late capitalism and civil lawfare.
I'm not even going to tuck in yet on how most western governments' "regulations" are backed by the "force" of civil penalty and nothing more. When, those civil penalties are generally less than potential lost revenue from corporate-wide policy change, which means the corporation simply considers civil penalty a cost of business and pays it.
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