Alexandr Wang, cofounder and CEO of Scale AI, a startup with a $4 billion valuation caught the attention of some fans on Twitter (x) this week pointing out a new initialism somewhat similar to DEI. Meet “MEI,” short for “merit, excellence, and intelligence”. Naturally the fan (and they usually are men so) boys and critics of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are latched on to it including the usual suspects of Elon Musk, Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, all of whom have previously criticized corporate DEI programs as Yahoo helpfully reminds us😅 Now to be fair to him he does say... "There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree. No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas."🙌🏾 Although its a bit worrying where he conflates "losers" with some of his hiring practices or dubious behaviours which he himself recognise are Illegal. "We will not pick winners and losers based on someone being the “right” or “wrong” race, gender, and so on. It should be needless to say, and yet it needs saying: doing so would be racist and sexist, not to mention illegal."🤔 For those who have tried to weaponize his words based on the idea that that anyone, regardless of background or upbringing, can succeed through hard work we have some news for you...💁🏾♀️ More on this and other stories in this weeks edition fo the colorintech newsletter! https://lnkd.in/d9bsbvK
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2wInteresting! Unfortunately meritocracy ideals can often be a myth that do contradict goals for equity.