Earlier this month, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban tried to educate X chief Elon Musk about the beauty of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, noting that they are actually hiring based on race. It became a hot topic for claiming that it was not. But when you watch the video of the woman he introduced to guide DEI policy, you see that she was actually using DEI policy to exclude white men and hire based strictly on race and gender. It shows.
On January 4th, Mr. Cuban spoke with Mr. Musk in a series of Said There is “zero” evidence that hiring based on DEI guidelines can result in “less qualified candidates.” He argued that DEI would open up hiring opportunities to more candidates with comparable qualifications to white people. He also said that with or without a DEI policy, the company still hires based on who is the best fit.
Elon Musk opposed this. “DEI is just another word for racism,” he argued.
DEI is another word for racism. Shame on anyone using it. https://t.co/HM94ZZmfhU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2024
Musk also criticized Cuban claims that DEI is the best way to help companies succeed.
Mark Cuban tries desperately to promote his “virtue,” but his hypocrisy won’t convince anyone
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 4, 2024
But Cuban was undaunted.He also Said Companies need to hire people who “reflect the nation as a whole” because “that’s what will put his company in the best position for success.”
Of course, there is an inherent disconnect between hiring for the purpose of finding the best and most qualified candidates and the idea of hiring to meet racial quotas mandated by DEI policies. You can’t hire the “best people” if your only real goal is to hire the “most diverse people.” The end goal is completely different.
But now a video of Sinto Marcial, the Cuban CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, has resurfaced. hired She becomes the first black woman to lead an NBA team. This shows that she fully understands that DEI means hiring people based on race.
Marshall also admitted that he had eliminated white people and replaced them with “women” and “people of color” simply to achieve “diversity.”
In a video that resurfaced in October 2020, the Mavericks CEO said: busy To NPR how we built this In a conversation with host Guy Raz, she openly admitted that she had reshuffled the board for “diversity”.
Mark Cuban is lying. The CEO he hired specifically admitted to firing/hiring Dallas Maverick employees based on race and gender.
This was part of a highly transparent 100-day DEI initiative that included daily mandatory bias training for employees.
The NBA is… pic.twitter.com/rSjmhRuA30
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) January 29, 2024
“I see the business case for diversity,” Marshall told NPR host Raz. “And if you really want to be as successful as possible, you have to have a diverse group of people around the table. We had one-on-one discussions and then made some changes in leadership.”
She proudly said: “Currently, our leadership positions are about 50 percent women and 47 percent people of color. Diversity matters. It matters.”
Here, Marshall clearly acknowledges that he has removed people who do not meet his diversity standards and replaced them with people of color and women simply for the sake of “diversity.”
This directly refutes Cuba’s claim that DEI employment policies are not actually race-based and are exclusionary.
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