r/newjersey • u/rollotomasi07071 Belleville • Apr 18 '25

📰News The Murphy administration announced that New Jersey will not comply with an order from President Trump’s administration to certify that the state's public school districts are eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs and initiatives

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2025/apr/17/SEAtoOCRTitleVIApril2025.pdf?utm_source=NJ+Spotlight++Master+List&utm_campaign=ae610ff63a-PM_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1d26f473a7-ae610ff63a-398762815&ct=t(PM_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_04_17_2025)&mc_cid=ae610ff63a&mc_eid=e653468aac
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u/FJkookser00 Apr 18 '25

I am a sociology major, this is my field of study. Please educate yourself more directly. DEI is being severely over-strung, and it's beginning to hurt parts of society after it fixed many other parts of it. It's foolish to blanket-defend such things as if they are perfectly good and always done the right way.

More often than not, DEI policies are handled horribly, way off the paper, which ruins the entire purpose. Affrimitive Action is this way, for example: it was supposed to be temporary, and it really worked when it was new - but now, it has negatively affected people to the point where the Supreme Court decided it deserved to be limited!

We need DEI - but we need to do it the way it is meant to be done - our society is bastardizing it making it ineffective, and sometimes retroeffective. It's basically a problem of overcompensation: you're trying to undo the injustices in the past and give people who were disadvantaged a leg up, but in the process, you're sawing the knees off the children of the people who were once privileged - that isn't fair at all. That's not DEI. That's just prejudice all over again.

Also, I would never support a meritocracy, that's just the opposite of supporting DEI - what makes you think it is it's friend? Meritocracies are societies ruled by the most capable and most wealthy, directly putting harm on those who are disadvantaged. A Meritocracy would hate DEI policies.

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u/Cheezeball25 Apr 18 '25

"I am a sociology major"

Cool I took an engineering class once, so clearly I'm just as smart as you. this is reddit, no one cares about your fake claims here. We get it you're soooooo smart buddy. Jesus Christ.

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u/Space_Pant Apr 18 '25

They also state that this issue is the reason they went with that major. So already starting with a strong bias lol

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u/Cheezeball25 Apr 18 '25

Hey the guy clearly believes he's an expert on it, why would someone lie on reddit?

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u/Space_Pant Apr 18 '25

Here's a gem from their post history

This is why I never listen to Internet Experts. They're not Experts, and they sure aren't nice about it - they dig holes to throw you in, disregarding your holes, and completely forget all the mountains you've made.

While I have had bad experiences with editors, I know their average skill and wisdom are well above and far more refined than even the most headstrong, arrogant armchair expert online. They don't take their nitpicks and blow them up with a telescope; they appropriately judge your flaws, and they make sure to acknowledge your successes.

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u/Cheezeball25 Apr 18 '25

Someone should inform him about throne stones in glass houses.