> the combination of DEI and immigration two forms of discrimination that systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.
What a racist idiot he is. The main problem is the cost of college not “DEI”. He’s not even using the term correctly.
It's not even the cost of college per se, but the cost of credentialing at elite colleges. Everything else that people associate with college ed (not least the educational resources themselves, especially with progress in LLM's) is dirt cheap and often free.
Also state schools are (well, were) heavily subsidized for lower income families. God forbid you get paid to attend a top 50 public university instead of mortgaging your future for a top 10 private school.
Maybe other people's usage of the term is just different than yours without either being "correct".
For at least half of America, "DEI" means "giving preferential treatment to some individuals based on their race, sexuality or gender".
That might be a good thing (at a societal level it balances historical racism, or it counteracts unconscious bias or other contemporary inequalities) or that might be a bad thing (it's unfair to the individuals, it harms trust in the system and undermines meritocracy, visible attributes are a weak proxy to actual privilege) but that doesn't mean using the term the same way as hundreds of millions of other speakers is incorrect.
What a racist idiot he is. The main problem is the cost of college not “DEI”. He’s not even using the term correctly.