@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be @gamer@fedi.bungle.online DEI works when you don't notice DEI companies are involved aka when everything "makes sense" and feels natural. The issue with DEI is when it is done "just because". For example telling journalists they can only interview certain people or invite certain people to their talk shows to fill a DEI quota. Or in video-games when you get weird moments were an adult character is talking about their polyamory sex life to bunch of kids or have characters who get a sex change "just because" without any real storytelling or compelling reason for it. I firmly believe that all sort of "quotas" are very wrong and more hurting than having the stereotypical "DEI-targeted individuals" get the roles/jobs/representation due to being relevant and skillful in their fields. Yes, they'd probably get way less representation, but it would always be positive and due to merit rather than "just because" and kicking a more fitting candidate under the bus. I'd argue no one would have an issue with the representation either in that case. I am very bad coming up with examples out of the bat, but let's say for example an athlete is gay. As long as they get the representation due to being good at their sport no one has an issue, right? However if the person gets picked to the national team so they can claim they have a gay athlete competing, it would cause a shitstorm. Not because people hate gay people, but because the athlete takes a spot from some more deserving athlete and brings the team performance down.