Comment Re: The helium leak (Score 0) 44
The concept of DE&I is decency, in reality as a PWD from my experience, it's a checklist used by corporations to pick the lowest hanging fruit and say that "we are an ethical company." Try having a non-visible disability and apply under DE&I, and you will get "well you don't look neurodivergent."
Corporations treat diversity like a procurement form. Visible identities get rubber-stamped because they photograph well for annual reports. Black employee? Check. LGBT employee? Check. Woman in leadership? Check. But neurodivergence requires actual infrastructure changes, costs money, demands flexibility in how work gets done. So suddenly it's "we're not sure you're really disabled" or "that accommodation seems excessive" or "we need documentation." These are barriers that conveniently don't exist when the diversity win can be showcased in a LinkedIn post. The hiring manager can point to the Black guy they hired instead and call it progress, box checked, diversity quota met, no actual systemic change required.
There is a reason that the suicide rate is 5x that of the rest of the population: it's because being told you're not disabled enough for support while being too disabled for opportunity creates a hopeless trap that corporations' diversity photos do nothing to solve.
This is why DE&I is dying. Not because it's a bad concept, but because it's been co-opted by heartless corporations into a bad implementation, and people on an instinctual level can see past the bullshit.