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@WIRED
December 18, 2025 at 1:18 pm
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@john-e7o5e
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 am
mlk is huge fan of donOLDs presidency donold said so himself!
@Mede_N
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 pm
This comment section will be pure cinema 😄🍿
@bandigustin1038
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 pm
I love happy endings 😊
@ryanmakers
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 pm
I believe in equal opportunity, not guaranteed outcomes. What we need is meritocracy, not equity. When we discriminate by race to correct disparities, we risk creating new injustices rather than real solutions. We also make a mistake when we reduce every problem to race instead of addressing broader factors that affect people of all backgrounds. The goal should be giving everyone a genuinely fair starting point—through better education, safer neighborhoods, and stable families with a present mother and father—while recognizing that individual choices and effort will always lead to different outcomes.
@zachhoff9876
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 pm
This is what happens when you shove a generally positive thing too aggressively down people’s throat.
@JJ-oe4oc
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 pm
DEI isn’t dead. After all, voters gave a narcissistic sociopath felon the presidency for a change. The second term may have been a little over the top though.
@12thDecember
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 pm
@ 1:12 What’s going on with these three-quarter poses? Wired always has these odd camera angles.
@WDUSproductions
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 pm
It was really annoying throughout the video, although the content wasn’t bad in itself.
@MelbourneArchviz
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 pm
This body language is meant to create distance and division, he made that pose especially when he is making a point that the other group are in the wrong.
@476429
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 pm
Using Martin Luther King Jr. as a symbol for the beginning of DEI isn’t really accurate. Being judged by the “content of your character” over the color of your skin is the opposite of DEI.
@MelbourneArchviz
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 pm
you are right and that is why the DEI people posting here and liking their own posts won’t give you a like. I did.
@aptibabayt
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 pm
You lost me at “DEI expert”. Lol. That’s like “sleeping expert” or “eating expert”. Such nonsense. When you take a just cause to the extreme, it DIEs like this.
@HLgxlegacyxx
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Your and idiot
@kidbonesonline
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Thank God it did. 🙌
@RobertoCarlos-tn1iq
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm
if only we could get rid of the woke white nepotism. i’ve actually seen politicians give their own daughters political appointements . . didn’t earn it.
@MelbourneArchviz
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 pm
You guys invented a new religion.
@HLgxlegacyxx
December 18, 2025 at 6:59 pm
No dei means keeping everything fair for everyone
@ArchdukeB
December 18, 2025 at 7:24 pm
You may be confused by inaccurate history lessons if you think that America was ever “fair” or based on meritocracy. It was designed specifically by the founders (i.e. wealthy) to be the greatest con job on masses.
@KhaoticComrade
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Boosting
@loquatmuncher
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 pm
lol f off. Media always shilling whats in the zeitgeist. Suddenly it becomes less profitable to be woke so you change your stance. traditional media needs to die faster.
@ronduncan9527
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 pm
DEI or Didn’t Earn It.
@infinitemonkey917
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 pm
You are so witty, Ron Duncan. You must be a big hit at parties. Got any more zingers for us?
@HLgxlegacyxx
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 pm
That’s not what it means it means keeping a fair level playing field
@spinlok3943
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 pm
Good riddance to DEI.
@TheJtyork420
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Did u not see the al sharpton vid when he went out to support costco cause of their dei initiatives handing out costco gift cards and instead of supporting buisness that have dei in practice everyone just took the cards and left and nobody shopped. The black community needs to be honest that there is a toxicity in their culture that they refuse to address and choose to blame other factors instead. They choose to murder and commit robbery at astoudingly high rates. So much so if u break down all murders and robberies in the country by race they commit a lil over 50% of all murder and robberies in the entire nation while only making up 13% of america. That is a huge anomaly and only black people can fix it. The rest of society has to lay for that huge burder to the justice system every yr and that 1 main reason reperations will mever happen. Its long been spent on the burden to society that significant lortion of the black community causes but refuses to take responsibility for.
@terryl7874
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 pm
What a load of crap. DEI tried to ram woke down Conservative throats. I couldn’t care less if someone wants to transsexual or homosexual. Just live in their own lane and I will live in mine. Blacks are equal and be successful on their own merit without rigging the system.
@ebonaparte3853
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Okay Kool Aid drinker
@HLgxlegacyxx
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 pm
None of this happened you don’t know what dei means and you cant define woke
@HLgxlegacyxx
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 pm
Dei means keeping things fairly fo everyone it hiring based on race
@ebonaparte3853
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Great video, but it attracted strange commenters.
@ineedinsulin
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Teresa Earnhardt is what really killed DEI
@johncunner2429
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 pm
You wanna know something WIRED? It’s not the content people are hating you for! Trust me! It’s just the time! You released this in a time where people just wanna be angry and hateful! One finds what their looking for even if it doesn’t exist!
@beachboysandrew
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 pm
It’s not very accurate to put Dr. MLK Jr’s face on DEI lol
@mevans4953
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 pm
The death of DEI is also the rebirth on a focus on Quality and Merit.
@davidhochstetler4068
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 pm
Equity vs equality. The dump little graphic with the stools and the fence is pretty on point of what it turned into
@LadyMul
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Have you seen the people who have the top jobs in Trump administration. Imagine that being the norm in corrupt America too. Equity is the only way a society progresses
@matt036
December 19, 2025 at 12:18 am
Great video but always itched the wrong way about Americans talking about the “middle class”.
Like the majority of you are working class or lower working class when you compare to other countries of your financial power…. Thats all you need to know. No matter what race you are.
@mpan189
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 am
Thought I had unsubscribed before. I certainly will be now.
@Mikael-i4v
December 19, 2025 at 12:37 am
Praise the death of DEI 🎉
@Mikael-i4v
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 am
It’s discrimination against Whites, fool. Thankfully, merit will always win over skin colour
@mac8179
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 am
It’s not accurate to put MLK as the beginning. It’s not accurate to put Trump as the end of DEI. It was a cultural movement that people were fed up with. Trump helped it die.
@chrisdt2297
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 am
DEI as a generalized idea of direction isn’t bad, but lots of the actual policy, focus, and implementations are just laughable and so for-profit, in the eyes of a foreigner.
Also, why does US DEI sound so focused on black?
I can understand Asians, Native American, and other minorities not showing up on the talking point that often, given the low population percentage. But what about the Hispanic population? They became the largest minority group.
Because it’s more of an ethnicity, not a race?
@beachboysandrew
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 pm
It has to do with electoral politics. Black voters are very important to the Democratic coalition, so Democrats prioritize their issues. Since Hispanics, Asians, and Natives aren’t as important for which political party wins, both parties tend to ignore them (sadly)
@chrisdt2297
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 pm
@beachboysandrew I thought it would be the opposite, given that most blacks are guaranteed to vote for Democrats. They will focus harder on trying to get other minorities on board.
@phonxil4592
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 am
OSU
@bestofbothswirls
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 am
why do white people play dumb on how dei and aa works?
@thebladonator
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 am
Good riddance. Bring back meritocracy!
@thebladonator
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 am
If DEI doesn’t make more money, then why would anyone keep doing it?
@JunggeselleSehnsucht
December 19, 2025 at 4:33 am
Terrible vid
@Arturino_Burachelini
December 19, 2025 at 4:49 am
No, AA is not the thing I’d stand with. Militant disregard for race(ialism) – yeah
@rodneycooperjr3223
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 am
It died because Democrats are losers. They concede everything and complain more than they fight.
@Prashant_Negi_99
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 am
DEI is dead ?
GOOD
@bwill040
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 am
Everyone screams about merit while upper government is filled with unqualified white men. I’m ok with being DEI being gone. I never want to hear another complaint about someone not getting into college or getting the desired job.
@hoofhearted4
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 am
It blows my mind how us Americans have so over complicated everything about this.
@Chasing_santino
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 am
Wired was like “we need to get a black man to narrate this video” wokies never learn😂🤦🏼♂️
@natejr10
December 19, 2025 at 11:37 pm
you are literally the point of this video…instead of judging the things he said,which may have very not even been a script of his creation,you are judging him by the color of his skin smh
@glitchyboyg7409
December 19, 2025 at 9:35 am
Why are you glazing DEI so much tho in some ways they went too far because when you have a quota that says you gotta hire this much people of this race sometimes you dont hire the most qualified people.
@toddlehman1
December 19, 2025 at 8:29 pm
“Obsessed with hollow representation and corporate theatre” isn’t exactly glaze. I think he had a somewhat balanced take.
@glitchyboyg7409
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 pm
@toddlehman1for the first part he absolutely glazes it
@aintnoslice3422
December 19, 2025 at 12:10 pm
good riddance to this chauvinistic black narcissism.
@GetInTouchTV
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 pm
white people cant be trusted to hold white people accountable.
@TheAtHamptonDotCom
December 19, 2025 at 3:55 pm
Because it was a United Nations dog whistle for ethnic cleansing. next question.
@shaz118
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 pm
You should always get your job based on merit, not the colour of your skin. Simple. I would rather have a surgeon or pilot who was picked because of their qualifications and experience rather than the colour of their skin.
@everynyan3210
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 pm
🥟
@llamalover02
December 19, 2025 at 6:48 pm
I’m all for equality. We need more of it. We need to have all job applications, scholarships, and college applications be only based on merit and merit alone. That is equality.
@AlqoshYimedMathwatha
December 20, 2025 at 1:17 am
Hire the best person for the job. Not on the basis of skin color.
Stop being divisive and be color blind. Help end racism once and for all!
@rocketman-766
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 pm
people don’t understand there’s no “objective” choice based on merit, personal bial still play big part. In room a full white management, if they have to choose between two white and black candidate with the same equal skill and value which candidate they will pick? are you pretty sure not based on skin color?
how can you make sure they will hire best person? i doubt it. In a country with history of racial segregation like US, i doubt they able to be color blind
@yotaruvegeta
December 25, 2025 at 1:24 pm
That’s the issue. Companies have been guilty of bias again and again, excluding people who are qualified, but aren’t treated equally
@zaharralane3753
December 20, 2025 at 2:19 am
Since we are speaking about merit, the presidential standard is shockingly low compared to almost any job—yet it is rarely framed that way. The only qualifications are being 35 or older, a natural-born citizen, and a 14-year U.S. resident. So while he is literally falling asleep during meetings, and his appointees—like Alina Habba—are removed after courts rule their appointments unlawful, the ultimate irony is that only because of their position of power are they allowed to terminate those more credentialed and experienced than them, while facing no reciprocal accountability themselves.
@vvblues
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 pm
You have Fox News teleprompter readers running the Defense Department. That’s the opposite of qualified.
@shanicestella2226
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 am
If Activism doesn”t executed with pure empathy and smart brain , Then its no Activism , Its a narcissism in a guise of performative activism
@ballgobbleromnom
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 am
Breaking bad reference 🔥
@wongjefx980
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Trump labelled DEI as woke and made woke anti-white male. Now racism and sexism are back baby. Next time someone goes for some equality and equity thing, make sure it isn’t so culturally toxic and exclusive that it might stick.
@OpenSourceAgriculture
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 am
Capitalism, supply and demand, meritocracy. It’s not hard, folks
@OpenSourceAgriculture
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 am
DEI = DIDNT EARN IT
@OpenSourceAgriculture
December 21, 2025 at 4:03 am
Bro open your eyes and get off the plantation
@justjames1348
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 am
Good. Dei deservers to die
@AdamFahn
December 21, 2025 at 9:24 am
We need inclusivity, not diversive diversity. We need equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.
@BK-rj7eg
December 21, 2025 at 9:36 am
We need DEI in NBA and USA Olympics team, where Blacks are over-represented and have historically oppressed other races. We need to lower the height of basket for asians. We need black Asian white Arabic each one in Olympics relay team for equity.
@joliemaui9820
December 21, 2025 at 1:53 pm
The downfall of DEI was when we started to measure it. Companies created goals. Employees were paid bonuses if they hit certain targets.
It could’ve been a program that just made people get rid of any biases they may have hold.
Sadly, it became a contest to see who could be the best.
@tomneal1789
December 21, 2025 at 5:37 pm
There are some good points here, but author of this article is very one-dimensional in framing DEI fatigue as exclusively an anti-black reaction. No mention whatsoever of transgenderism, and how it sort of took over and stole center stage in workplace DEI trainings, forced pronoun email signatures, etc. Transgenderism, not Black people, became the point of ridicule in DEI culture that lead to the reelection of Trump, the downfall of Kamala, and led Pete Buttigieg to compare democratic gatherings to Portlandia episodes. The author also missed an opportunity to ask the question of whether the DEI industry as a whole wasn’t a “White privilege response to White privilege” – as Conor Friedersdorf argues poignantly in The Atlantic.
@fe7fe8yellowphoenix77
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Did WIRED just made a ragebait?
@jeddulanas9262
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 am
This was massively disappointing. You didnt even explain the concepts of equity and inclusion. These concepts are not hollow and performative and should not die
@anisimovsergey1
December 22, 2025 at 9:44 am
DEI is a discriminatory practice pretending to be fighting against it! This video is total propaganda btw.
@ShawnLH88
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 pm
The biggest terrorist group in the USA are white conservatives. They’re most of the school shooters. Serial killers. Shooting crimes. Domestic abuse. Everything. They’ve been the problem since day 1
@oldcowbb
December 22, 2025 at 7:27 pm
look at this comment section reducing DEI to affirmative action
@dcu21
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 am
So basically its Saint George Floyd’s fault 😂
@AndrewMalkin
December 23, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Just a quick thought, you forgot the full acronym. It’s DEIA. You’ve completely left out the accessibility aspect of this.
@haroldfrets5468
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 pm
If the passing score of a test is 70…..I don’t want it to be 65 just for Puerto Ricans, you would be saying that we are dumb and chances are we won’t come close to scoring 70..
Disguised as if (” giving you a chance”/ to pass the test **wink wink##”)
Same rules for everyone, same test score limits for everyone DEI is an insult to minorities, let’s get real please, stay blessed as always…..
@jaytea42
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 pm
Thank Goodness. Forced Woke DEI diversity creates backlash and resentment.
@zzappligator
December 24, 2025 at 10:04 pm
DEI is to solve a problem. Without the solution the problem returns. DEI is not dead.
@Digga_T
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 am
Osu ahh thumbnail
@wittenberg5
December 27, 2025 at 9:25 am
DEI didn’t die, it just went into remission.
@johannk1129
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 pm
One should hire the best, period ! !