In a 3 hour long interview on Joe Rogan's podcast on Elon Musk says that "the fundamental weakness of western society is empathy".
This from the guy who wears kevlar to every public appearance while carrying his son on his shoulders.
He justifies shutting down all government support services under the auspices of rooting out fraud by equating Social Security to a "Ponzi Scheme", claiming that social welfare itself is fraud.
I did not hear the 3 hour podcast, but I am sure you won't hear him mention the $40 billion in government subsidies he himself receives, personally.
He also speaks a lot on replacement theory, the idea that white Americans (aka European immigrants) are being displaced by immigrants (of colour).
Such as all those "not American" Indigenous people who were swept up in ICE raids along with US citizens of Mexican descent.
This is the whole basis of the idea that DEI is somehow not merit based, and that acknowledging potential in anybody who is not heteronormal, white, and male means replacing jobs with diverse people in the place of "the only qualified" white men. When in fact DEI does nothing but give other people the opportunity to compete and show their merit and qualifications, without being blocked from competing by discrimination, allowing employers to see a fuller and more diverse talent pool to choose from.
Let's look at the most common "proof" of DEI "replacement" that's claimed, which goes something like this: "I saw an employment ad but was not allowed to apply because the application was closed to non-DEI applicants. They are literally only giving jobs to trans weirdos, gays, refugees, and illegals."
No, that job was closed to non-DEI applicants because they ALREADY had plenty of applications and resumes from such applicants, which did not reflect the same diversity of people in their community. They are encouraging more diverse people to apply, NOT throwing away the resumes of the non-DEI applicants who have already applied.
Inclusion is NOT exclusion, and including a diverse demographic is not "replacing" the hetero-normal white men whom you believe to be the only "qualified" applicants.
When MAGA-following corporations "eliminate" DEI, what they are doing is taking away the jobs of qualified individuals because they're Black or Indigenous, or because they're genderqueer, because they're women holding "a man's job", or because they're disabled and doing a job which they can excel at. That's called discrimination.
As an Asian-Canadian, for you to suggest that the only reason I got my job, which I have over 20 years of experience in, is because I checked a "Visible Minority" checkbox on my application, is incredibly insulting and just downright wrong.
Possibly I might have been left unemployed without that checkbox, but it is certainly NOT the reason I was awarded a position. If somebody fired me because the government has taken away DEI protections and they claim I got my job illegitimately, that is discrimination and grounds for wrongful dismissal.
