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I've heard it said DEI is mostly about risk mitigation. Making sure the employer can't be sued for discrimination because they Did Everything Right. If the DEI trainings (or at least a subset) themselves become a threat, a way for a company to get sued by employees, the equation could change rapidly.

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I also am eagerly awaiting further dispatches from the Seattle lawsuit.

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This issue of anti-racist policy is the purity test for True Left academic types. It’s also probably the most salient thing for tech bros turning away from democrats.

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Feb 15, 2023
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If that's true, we'd have a paper trail of case law to demonstrate this bias. I haven't looked but I'm not aware of any law review articles or similar which establish this hypothesis.

SCOTUS already explicitly prohibits discrimination against men: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-1191

I'm not aware of a SCOTUS directly on point for anti-white discrimination, but this white guy recently won a $10 million verdict for anti-white and anti-male discrimination:

https://www.wistv.com/2021/10/28/male-hospital-executive-wins-10m-discrimination-lawsuit-after-being-replaced-by-women/?outputType=amp

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